Old Louisville Journal, August 2008

Garden Tour a Sucess! photo by johnpaul

The "Hidden Treasures” Garden Tour, like its predecessors, was a successful community effort that attracted a large number of visitors to our historic neighborhood. The tour again teamed with the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in announcing the second annual Bard-B-Que held at Landward House where food and music raised funds for free Shakespeare in the Park, followed by a performance of Julius Caesar. Our thanks to go to all who made this year’s tour a success. Perhaps we should start with Old Man Weather who, after playing a trick on us with Saturday’s humidity, gave us a cleansing thunderstorm on Saturday night that left us with garden-perfect weather for Sunday. Kudos and gratitude to our garden hosts, who worked so hard and generously shared their private retreats with us:

Alan L. Shawler;

Cynthia B. Welch; Jeff Perry and

Gregg Keller; Leslie Bright & Peter

Salerno; George and Beckey Doyle;

Jim and Sharon Stone; Paul Porter

and Bill Clark; Joe and Linda

Plunkett; Louise Shawkat; Gayle and

Herb Warren, and Helga Vikre; and

Jeff, Drew and Susan Coleman Layman.

Many thanks go to the sponsors of the tour, without whose support it could not be the unique and welcoming experience that draws return visitors every year: Amici’s Italian Café; Architectural Salvage; Bearwood Gardens/ Kevin Kouba; Blue Heron/ Aggie Gladwin; Old Louisville Counseling Center; Bunton Seed Co.; Carly Rae’s; The Conrad-Caldwell House Museum; Crosswind Farm/ Linda Ison; Digs; Don Driskell/ Catalyst Realty & Property Management; DuPont Mansion Historic Bed & Breakfast; Economy Aquatic Gardens, Preston Hwy.; E J Printing; Ermin’s French Bakery & Café; The Gallery at 133 on W. Oak St.; The Greater Louisville Bonsai Society; Gumby’s Specialty Catering; Ken Herndon, Mulloy Properties; Hidden Hill/ Bob Hill; JW Solutions; Lady Slippers Nursery; Anne Lyons; Mary Martin, Semonin Realtors; Masterson’s Catering; Nord’s Bakery on Preston; Oak Street Hardware/ Lee Jones; Old Louisville Chamber of Commerce; Old Louisville Coffee House; Old Louisville Information Center; Panache Flowers and Gifts; Plant Kingdom; Rhubarb Art; Scheler’s Food Mart; Deborah Stewart & Kate Cole, Rainey, Jones & Shaw Realtors; Sweet Home Renovation Pros/ Tony Mapp; Dr. B. Thomas Thacker; Dr. Jeremy Thornewill; Treyton Oak Towers; and The Wine Market, Bardstown Rd.

The efforts of many Old Louisville residents and friends from outside the Old Louisville community went into making it the success that it was. Volunteers staffed the gardens, served as garden go-fers, sold tickets and served in the hospitality center. For the sixth year, Gayle and Herb Warren sponsored and hosted Art in the Garden at the DuPont Mansion B & B where the annual Art in the Garden poster was inaugurated. Gayle and Herb also hosted the winddown party open to all garden tour volunteers, sponsors and garden hosts. The garden tour planning committee extends its warmest thanks to all who participated in this community effort!

Yard Sale!

In need of attic treasures, cellar stuff, appliances, furniture, bric-abrac, gifts, crafts, architectural details? Do you like to stroll along magnificent avenues of Victorian mansions? Would you like to meet your neighbors or just catch up? Would you like a great reason to visit the magnificent setting of Old Louisville? If so, the first Saturday in August is the day for you, mark your calendar now! In Old Louisville we never do anything small scale. The Third Street Association, the 1300 South Third Street Association, the Toonerville Trolley Association, Second Street Association and the West St. Catherine Association will be joined by other Old Louisville blocks and associations for this year’s annual extravaganza on Saturday, August 2nd. This will be the largest neighborhood yard sale of the year for the City of Louisville .

· 1000-1800 South Third Street (8 blocks)

· 1000-1800 South Second Street (8 blocks)

· 500-600 West St. Catherine Street (1 block)

· The blocks bordered by Floyd, Oak, First, and Hill Streets. (9 square blocks)

· Check all around the neighborhood, especially St James Court, for more yard sales taking advantage of the “official” sites above.

Bottom Line: If you only go to one yard sale a year, THIS should be the one! In 2003 & 2004, there were so many sales, just to do a quick walkaround took several hours. This year will be larger than last. And in previous years there were some REAL bargains to be had! What looks like junk and surplus to Old Louisville residents are often the treasures of yard sales in other parts of town.

The sale is on a Saturday, school’s out and university’s out, so parking should be easy to find everywhere.

Directions : Find I-65 and D o w n t o w n Louisville and take the St. Catherine St. Exit (just south of downtown). You will already be at the northern limits of the sale on Floyd, Burnett, First, Second Third or Fifth & St Catherine Streets. Print a Yard Sale! copy of the map (link above) and you should be ready to go. Again, be sure to check along streets not mentioned as the official site for “extra” sales. Warning: Old Louisville is big. To criss-cross the entire area by car takes about an hour.

June PIC Meeting to be held at

U. of L. University Club

The President’s Office of the University of Louisville has invited the OLNC Property Improvement Committee to hold the June 12, 2008 PIC meeting at the University/Alumni Club. A buffet will be served at 6:00 p.m. and a presentation of Stansbury Park-Freedom Park plans at 7:00 p.m. The balance of the PIC meeting agenda will continue after the U. of L. presentation.

Please r.s.v.p to Linda Plunkett @ 635-5244 if you wish to attend the June PIC meeting

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