Even More From Erin’s Shelves, Including A Book Of KY Ghost Stories

I never knew I was such a book worm! I was scrounging around at my parents' house; they were still on vacation and I found a gold mine of books I know I've read. Some are classics, some aren't, but they are all good reads, especially that thin blue one towards the top of the pile.

Here's what happened. My sister wanted my copy of Pete's Dragon because she wanted my niece to see it. When I moved from Madisonville to Owensboro (the first time) six years ago, I packed up a ton of cds and a good bunch of DVDs. The less I pack, the less I have to pack up when I need to move again. Thus I decided when I moved back to Owensboro a couple of years ago, I didn't want to drag all of my DVDs along, so more than half were packed away at Mom and Dad's. So when my sister and my Mom went looking for 'Pete', I told them where I thought it was and they looked and they looked, nothing. I stopped by last weekend and my sister told me to see if I could find the movie and not only did I find the movie, I found a bunch of books I forgot I had including a book of Kentucky ghost stories a professor of mine at WKU had written. He even signed it.

And I believe I got this at a book festival in Owensboro at the Riverpark Center. Yes, it was the Tri-State Book Festival. 1996??? Wow. Dr. Lynwood Montell, who hails from Monroe County, taught Folk Studies at WKU for thirty years and he was a pretty interesting character. Not the crazy kind, just an honest, enthusiastic guy with a lot of stories to tell. A majority of the stories in Kentucky Ghosts take place in south central Kentucky, and one takes place in Muhlenberg County. It's about a ghost named Otto who saves a family from buying a haunted house.

I'm going to have to re-read that one.  Halloween grows closer.