I’m a bit behind this week due to waiting for some information to share. Plus I wanted to share this pleasant highlight of my week. So first the ‘moment’. Warning: reusing old doors for this post.

A business chat ensued between the Smokey Valley Chamber Music Festival on Instagram & I. Now normally one might consider this as spam. But their reason for contacting me was to have permission to use the above photo in a poster for a piano masterclass at this church. They will give the photo the obligatory credit and mentioned there will likely be a lot of overlapped text involved. Obviously if it will be a poster, right? But I just wanted to mention how honored I am that they took time to request permission and found this photo ‘good enough’. In think dear hubs & I are a pretty good photography team!

Also I was invited to a strings concert called American Soundscape. I’m sharing the Instagram photo from SVCMF below. Unfortunately I cannot attend. We’ll be on the opposite side of Missouri and that kind of turn around in traveling is not a journey dear hubs and I are able to make happen. But if you are in the region, I would encourage you to attend. It will be a delightful event I am sure!

Another bit of info was discovered just yesterday from a board member on Cooper County Historical Society on one of my Thursday Doors Writing Challenge contributions. First, thanks to those who used the photo in their writings as this prompted me to discover what more I could about this photo. A few things I did not know. I didn’t get permission to use her name, but this kind woman said that the building was first a Bank that closed in 1929. One Abraham Potter was a stockholder in the bank and she has a photo of a bank certificate from there. I asked if the closure was due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and she said she had never seen anything in writing, but it was possible. Afterwards, a gentleman named Bill Todd ran a store out of it. It’s currently owned by an individual using it for storage. So not any plans to improve and renovate, sadly.

Thanks so much for this wonderful insight from the most kind woman at the historical society! I look forward to meeting up with her in the future on more history of that area. Exciting stuff to this history buff! (Poetic attempts from me are cringey)

Thanks to Dan for his hosting the Thursday Doors each week as well as the Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (in its 6th year.) I have much reading to get to, but what I’ve found so far has been well worth my time! Please click those links and check out all the talent!