Singer/songwriter Kevin Renick for St. Louis, best known for his hit song “Up in the Air” thrilled the crowd today at Java City with his mellow and thoughtful music.
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Far Away Places presents John Hale
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Kentucky Live! presents Chef Albert Schmid
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Kevin Renick at Java City today
Don’t let the clouds keep you away from our Noon concert today at Java City. St. Louis based singer/songwriter Kevin Renick will entertain with his moving, authentic style. He turned his personal experience of job loss into a song that became the title track for the movie “Up in the Air.”
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Scrapbooks in Special Collections (Kentucky Library)
Today, scrapbooking is a popular pastime but fortunately for historians and genealogists, this activity is not new. Many early scrap bookers were also genealogists and through their scrapbooking activities, they preserved not only a part of their life, but left a legacy of their family’s history. Many of the scrapbooks in our collections contain such diverse items as photographs, correspondence, telegrams, tickets, obituaries, booklets, programs, correspondence and newspaper photographs and clippings, certificates, telegrams, narratives, bills of undertakers, promotional notices, grade and postcards.
One scrapbook donated by Mary Vogel contained a hand written 1851 genealogical chart for Johannes Volpert who was born in Germany in 1795. Though the chart is written in German, there is a note on the chart in English “this was given me by the Priest in my mother’s home, I was in the house where she was born, in the church where my grandparents were married…”
These wonderful time capsules show that with care and consideration genealogy and family history can very easily incorporated into today’s scrapbooking to create lasting legacies.
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Java City Noon concerts continue with the return of Dewveall
Alt-country, folk duo from Texas via Nashville returns to WKU on October 6 at noon. Come out to Java City in Helm for a little afternoon music. It’s beautiful Fall day for some music before heading off on Fall Break. Thanks to Independence Bank for their sponsorship.
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BG rock band Liberation performed at Java City
A happy crowd enjoyed the sounds of BG band Liberation last Tuesday on the patio outside Java City. Though billed as Bowling Green’s premier nightclub rock band, they demonstrated they were alot more than that. Thanks to Independence Bank for their continued sponsorship.
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“Set the Night on Fire” – Art by Tom Poole
One of the most popular recent art additions in the Helm-Cravens Library is “Set the Night on Fire,” a tribute to Jim Morrison of the rock group, The Doors. Born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida in 1943, Morrison was a singer-composer-poet whose band became an icon of the late 1960s with hits like “Light My Fire” which in 1967 became the number one song of the “summer of love.” After completing his seventh album, a documentary film, three collections of poetry and a screenplay Morrison was discovered dead in his Paris apartment on July 4, 1971. He’s buried at Paris’s Pere Lachaise cemetery near the graves of Moliere, Balzac, Edith Piaf, Chopin and Oscar Wilde. See Jerry Hopkins entry in American National Biography Online, a WKU e-book.
Poole is an award winning Kentucky artist who paints with watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels and mixed media. His work has appeared in many state, regional and national exhibitions. He’s a signature member of the Louisiana and Kentucky Watercolor Societies and the International Society of Acrylic Painters. Tom was a huge fan of The Doors and Jim and viewed his death at 27 as a great tragedy. His poem below is used with permission:
Dance with the Shaman
Can’t you reach a little higher?
Take a trip to hide the pain
Don’t you know
Cocaine is just another chain?
Spin and swirl
Dance with the Shaman
You are approaching your tortured destruction
Death is doing His best seduction
Reach out…your friend is here but The End is coming
C’mon…break on through…Transcend!
Spin and swirl
Dance with the Shaman
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WKU Student Singer-songwriter Appeared with His Band at Java City
Alec Vinsant, a WKU student singer-songwriter appeared with his band today at Java City to a large appreciative group. The casual rocking sound featured Vinsant’s originals to old favorites like “Hold My Hand” by Hootie and the Blowfish.
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