Perryville on the Farm

[Emily Burns]

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Photos now loaded!!!

http://www.graphicenterprises.net/html/perryville_1869.html

[Emily Burns]

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Those are great pictures, Joni! I'll try to get some more posted later.

[Joni House]

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Here is a few more.
Thanks,
Joni House

[Joni House]

Re: Perryville on the Farm more pictures

Here are some more pics.

[Joni House]

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All,
I just wanted to say Thank You for making On the Farm such a success this year. It was nice to see new faces and spend time with so many old friends. I am posting several images that I received from folks. I have to admit I picked alot of the pictures with the horses. These are just a few and I am hoping they put a bunch more on the website.

Thanks Again!
Joni House

[Micah Trent]

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Had a good time myself for the time I was there. Wish I could've stayed longer. I think Mr. "Barnhouse" needed a bit of competiton in the poker games.:wink_smil Maybe, next time! Did anyone check his sleeves????:D
Thanks to Joni, Chad and the others who helped put this together.

[LindaTrent]

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I just want to add that I also had a wonderful time. I got my first horse for my 16th birthday and instantly got into bloodlines. I was able to take her back to the likes of Sir Archy, Diomed, and Timoleon though at that time I had no idea that it was thanks to Colonel Bruce. :D Bloodlines became more important to me after I got married and we bred our own mare, our baby sold all the way to British Columbia, where he went on to be a star. Unfortunately we don't have any horses at this time, so obviously we didn't bring one.

Portraying Col and Labelle Combs Bruce was a chance in a lifetime, since he was the one who wrote and published the thoroughbred stud book. The horses we studied for this event were of the same bloodlines I studied years ago, and the ones that made Woodburn's horses great!

The event has made me re-enthusiastic about studying the Kentucky thoroughbred of the CW era, as well as, though to a lesser extent the Kentucky Saddler. In fact, I'm still reading everything I can get my hands on about Woodburn and other great Kentucky thoroughbred farms of the era. :) I'd love to stop back at Keeneland and also the Kentucky Horse Park sometime and study even more in depth, but that's probably not something I'll do anytime soon.

Thanks again to Joni, Chad, Bev and anyone else involved in planning the event, as well as all the participants who worked hard to make it a fun event! I had a great time!

Thanks!

Linda.

[Emily Burns]

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Highlights: watching the the horse races and hearing minstrel music float up the hill, the pie & preservation auction (I'll have to step up my game to beat Miss Judy's fine work), the cordial, having period currency to spend, pooling it to help Miss Nettie win that fine horse she had her heart set on, and the burgoo.

We've never arrived home nearly so rested before.

I enjoyed both of the auctions so much! Larry did a wonderful job as auctioneer. And got a bite or two of pie from the girls, too.

We're so glad you got to come.
Emily

[Deborah Hyland]

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Well, that was just a delightful weekend, in spite of the torrential beginning. In fact, it wouldn't have gone nearly so well if Miss Judy hadn't so kindly extended her hospitality on Friday night. Thanks to all the hard work that everyone put into this event, especially Joni House & Chad Greene, Mark & Beverly Simpson, and Emily & Danny Burns. You seemed to have thought of everything!

Highlights: watching the the horse races and hearing minstrel music float up the hill, the pie & preservation auction (I'll have to step up my game to beat Miss Judy's fine work), the cordial, having period currency to spend, pooling it to help Miss Nettie win that fine horse she had her heart set on, and the burgoo.

We've never arrived home nearly so rested before.

[Emily Burns]

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There are so many stories best said with pictures. As I've had no luck uploading the photos here, maybe you could stop by the site where they've been stored.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10503970@N03/tags/2008/show/

(my apologies, for some strange reason the slide show runs backwards, I'll see if this can't be remedied)

My thanks to all who came and worked so hard to make the weekend such a lovely one.

[Hank Trent]

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Just posted this as a follow-up in my thread about reproducing period newspapers, but it also fits as a Perryville on the Farm AAR tidbit.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

[Hank Trent]

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I was well pleased at the thought that went into the monetary issue: as a servant of the Clays, I had some 1's and 2's and one larger bill---and later found there were men there with fistfulls of $100's

Ditto! I was given over $500, which I thought very reasonable to purchase a trotter for Mrs. Belmont, but I could hardly advance beyond the opening bid for the one I picked out for her.

Though my wife said that it was probably good I didn't win that mare, because it would have broken the heart of a member of the Clay family. Since A.J. Alexander isn't supporting the publication of my stud book like R. A. did, and I need funds to put out volume two, I can't afford to upset any influential people who have money. :)

I believe had you been there, you could have given Mr. Bailey a run for his money in the stick horse division. :D

I told my wife that the stick horses must be from the Forrest bloodlines.*

Hank Trent
(Portraying Col. S. D. Bruce)
*The stallion Edwin Forrest was standing at Woodburn in 1869.
hanktrent@voyager.net

[csabugler]

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Mrs. Lawson, As soon as I heal up from my wounds, I shall begin an intense regimen of training with said stick horse, having the intention on capturing the blue ribbon when next such an event occurs!

Patrick "gut-hole" Peterson

[Spinster]

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Miss Trisha,

The horse auction was great fun, with several new arrivals to participate. Alas, much of our good stock went to be wasted by the Army in the Dakotas, as they had (and were issued beforehand) much more cash than our post war pocketbooks contained. ( I was well pleased at the thought that went into the monetary issue: as a servant of the Clays, I had some 1's and 2's and one larger bill---and later found there were men there with fistfulls of $100's

After you left in the evening, the gentlemen departed for what proported to be a fellowship meeting. As they worked hard at the Widows and Orphans table all day, I guess such must be tolerated, but Mrs. B whispered that the Mister came in quite late, bereft of funds, and incapable of dealing with his boots. He mumbled something about the chips all sliding downhill.

In preparation for the auction, we pooled our meager funds in support of a certain young lady's inheritance, and purchased a piece of quite possibly the finest piece of breeding stock seen in this part of the country since before the war. The price was high, but not as high as it could have been (I believe a few gentlemen prevailed upon the Army buyer to leave it alone for the sake of brotherhood). There was some challenge in locating honest agents to bid for those ladies that had the wherewithal to buy.

The Simpson children and I have been washing and unpacking all day--and the fine bill of sale for that prize horse is now safely in the family's document box, where all important papers belong.

And Mister Peterson---I believe had you been there, you could have given Mr. Bailey a run for his money in the stick horse division. :D

[csabugler]

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Sounds like it went well, no "unfortunate episodes".
That's a good thing