Remember how, a few days ago, I told you that the site of my paternal grandfather’s old bicycle shop in Frankfort, Kentucky had recently been reopened as a brewery? Well, since I posted that, I’ve come into possession of two more photos. The first is of my grandfather, Augustus Charles Maynard, counting change at the […]
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The neon sign from my grandfather’s old bike shop is once again hanging in Frankfort
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged bicycles, Bing Crosby, Charles Augustus Maynard, Cycle Center, Don Knotts, Frankfort, Goodwood Brewing, Kentucky, Mark's ancestors, neon 7 Comments
An online architectural tour of my earliest years in Frankfort, Kentucky
If you’re reading this in the future, and want to send a cyborg back in time in order to keep me from being born, so that I don’t destroy Skynet, or do whatever terrible and awesome thing it is that I’m going to do in my remaining years here on earth, this is where you […]
Posted in geneology, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1918 flu, Angie Condreva, architecture, AT&T, bourbon, Buffalo Trace, Charles Augustus Maynard, Charles Maynard, Curtis Florian, cyborg, Daniel Boone National Forrest, Frankfort, Goodwood Brewing, guns, houseboats, Kentucky, Lake Cumberland, Little Mister Frankfort, Mark Meade, Mark's ancestors, Minnie Florian, Monticello, Navy, Paty Maynard, Portsmouth, Rabbit Hash, Saint Joseph Hospital, Skynet, T-800, Terminator, the draft, Vietnam War, White Sulphur 9 Comments
Maynard-Lao Archive: Item 0001 [Light blue “Dead Dog’s Eyeball” t-shirt]
Since turning 50, I’ve been making a concerted effort to get my shit in order. I’ve started working more deliberately on this nearly 175 year old house of ours. I’ve pretty much cut bread, beer and refined sugar from my diet. And I’ve been attempting to rid myself of the possessions that I no longer […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Monkey Power Trio, OCD, Uncategorized Also tagged 1994, 1995, archives, Atlanta, Daniel Johnston, Dead Dog’s Eyeball, History, lucky clothing, Maynard-Lao Archive, Monkey Power Trio, t-shirts 7 Comments