by Gerry Furgason | Nov 18, 2023 | FAMILY
Seeing a nostalgic event can be missed in the blink of an eye. I happened to look out my front window years ago just as my eight year old son Duion, came running down our front yard hill with a pillowcase of candy he had collected. He rushed into his room,...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 16, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
During the Louisville, Kentucky Christmas season, Stewarts Department Store was open until 9:00 p.m. on Monday evenings so while attending Presentation Academy, I worked there and would take the late bus home from town out to our home in the Camp Taylor neighborhood....
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
I stood there looking at the photograph my student held in his hand. He explained that he was one of the soldiers who helped liberate one of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It was his horrible reminder of the cruelty suffered by so many men,...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | Random Thoughts
When I ran into an artist friend in a hardware store years ago, he told me he was shopping for an extra lock to put on his studio door because he was tired of relatives looking inside and describing his area as “disgusting”, “deplorable” or “downright...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | CHESTNUT STREET-PHOENIX HILL
I purchased the “Pink House” in 1987 from Mike Longaker. Located at 728 E. Chestnut Street, the house was a two-story brick building a short distance from the renovated shops of The Cloister where I was Executive Director of the non-profit community Art...
