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Audrey Lewis was recently crowned Mini-Supreme winner at the Cupid’s Natural Cuties Pageant held in Carrollton on Feb. 25. She also received Most Photogenic and Best Dressed. Audrey is the 5-year-old daughter of Eric and Gayla Lewis of Owenton.

Anna’s soap featured at Kentucky Crafted

Local soapmaker Sharon Lombardo, a participant in Kentucky Crafted: The Market, has been chosen again this year to participate in the Designer’s Showcase portion of Kentucky Crafted: The Market 2006. Her handmade soaps will be featured, along with works from a select group of Kentucky artists, in a special showcase just inside the main entrance to the show.
Kentucky Crafted: The Market 2006 is open to the general public from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, South Wing B, Louisville. More than 300 exhibitors of fine traditional, folk and contemporary crafts, two-dimensional visual art, musical recordings, books and food products will participate. Kentucky cultural entertainment and children’s craft activities (ages 4-12) will also be included.
The Kentucky Folklife Program will again sponsor the demonstration area featuring musical performances. It will feature the release of “More Than Music: A Heritage Driving Tour of Kentucky’s Route 23,” a CD and book narrated by Ricky Skaggs that presents artists who represent music and craft traditions from the region surrounding the Country Music Highway.
The Kentucky Agriculture Department’s Kentucky Proud food producers will take an active role in food demonstrations for 2006.
The one-of-a-kind gallery section known as the Designer Showcase is a unique exhibit created by interior design students from the University
of Kentucky in conjunction with the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program and the market’s sponsor, Osram Sylvania. The students will arrange products from market exhibitors to feature in room settings, illustrating how Kentucky’s art, crafts and other products can be used in everyday settings that reflect today’s decorating trends.
This is an opportunity for everyone to support Kentucky’s artists and craftspeople, to view their work and to shop in a unique setting with many of our most talented artists in one location. It is an event enjoyed by the entire family.

Crouse to perform at

Arts Showcase

Megan Crouse has been chosen to perform at the Frankfort Arts Showcase X at the Kentucky State University’s Bradford Hall at 8 p.m. Saturday. She will also receive a $250 grant that evening. The public is invited to attend.
To receive this honor, participants sent in a performance tape and a photograph to the Frankfort Arts Foundation. Performers from Franklin, Owen, Shelby, Henry, Woodford and Scott counties were allowed to enter. The tapes were then reviewed and judged by a panel of local performers and arts supporters. The five best performing artists and two best visual artists were chosen to be showcased.
Megan is a 2002 graduate of Owen County High School and is a senior at Kentucky State University. She has been awarded the John Phillip Sousa Award for conducting. This award was given for being the best student in the conducting class at KSU.
She is the daughter of the Rev. Roger and Diana Crouse of Cynthiana.

Former Owen student travels

in England

From July 20 to Aug. 3, Frederic and Sabrina Alcorn Baron, originally of Glencoe, traveled in Scotland and England. They spent five days in the historic and cosmopolitan capital city of Edinburgh. Sabrina presented a paper at a conference on “The Material Culture of the Book” at the University of Edinburgh.
In free time, they enjoyed exploring the medieval old town with the Royal Mile, anchored by Edinburgh Castle at the top and the royal palace of Holyrood House at the bottom. The new Scottish Parliament building is adjacent to the palace, in the shadow of a small mountain created from the core of an ancient volcano.
They also visited the John Knox house, St. Giles’ Cathedral, Gladstone’s Land, the Edinburgh Museum, the Scottish National History Museum, the National Gallery of Scotland, the National Portrait Gallery, Craigmiller Castle, Charlotte Square and other sites in the city. They enjoyed traditional tea rooms, various cuisines in the port neighborhood of Leith, and a single-malt-whiskey tasting in the city.
They also traveled in northern England and Scotland by car. Areas visited included the East Lotian Coast, the Holy Island, Ainwick, Rothbury, Harrogate, Ripon, Skipton, Hull, Jedburgh, Lochearn, Ft. William, Mallaign, Culloden, Pitlochrie and Glasgow. Sites visited included Tantallon Castle, Hadrian’s Wall, Fountains Abbey, Burton Agnes, Traquair House, Rosslyn Chapel, Stirling Castle Glenfinnian Monument, Neptune’s Staircase, Loch Ness, Ben Nevis, the Edradour Distillery, Glamis Castle, Falkland Palace and Glasgow Cathedral.
This itinerary was filled with wonderful lodgings, including a night in the 12th-century Traquair House, and fabulous food such as a heaping platter of langoustines and mussels on the west coast and a variety of haggis.
The beautiful countryside and bucolic lifestyle of the Scottish Highland, the Yorkshire Dales and the Scottish Borders made for a very relaxing getaway among stone cottages, stone fences and herds of sheep.
Sabrina graduated from Gallatin County High School and attended Hanover College in Hanover, Ind., for four years and the University of Chicago where she received her doctor’s degree in British history. She now teaches at a college in Maryland. She is the daughter of Clarice Alcorn and the late Gilbert Alcorn.

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