Groundwaters

What’s Been Happenin’?

October 28, 2008 on 7:20 am | In This 'n That | No Comments

With these beautiful Fall days that we’ve been experiencing, it’s been difficult to settle down in front of the computer for long. So, once again, I am behind on the posting to my blog. I have been doing some work, however. ..

My husband Jim and I finally removed the plywood sheets that have been covering the large front windows of the Dew Drop Inn for the past 50 years or so. We found beautiful window frames beneath them that were in very good shape for their age. Both windows have six 11″ square panes across the top and two larger panes beneath them. The larger glass panes had been broken out and needed to be replaced. Four of the smaller ones had BB-shot holes in them where they had, at one time, been used for target practice. Jim has replaced the large panes and we have the small replacement panes ready to install. Removing the long-adorned plywood has revealed the old building’s special personality. To be honest, though, it no longer looks like the rough-and-tumble tavern its remembered to be… especially with that bright aqua front door and windowsill trim and the pale yellow paint with white trim around the windows. With the outside painting almost completed and the trim almost done, it now has kind of a “cottage” look. I hope that we’ll be able to complete the outside before winter. Then it will be time to lay down a new floor and install a pellet stove for heat. It’s coming along slowly because of some health issues, but it is “coming along.”

DEW DROP INN. Future home of Groundwaters Magazine

Besides working on the building, I have been compiling some statistics for presentations we hope to make to raise funding for Groundwaters. I thought these stats might be interesting to our readers, too.

Since Judy produced the first issue of Groundwaters in October 2004, we have published 664 submissions by 147 contributors. Fifty-eight of those submissions have been made by 23 writers who are 18 years of age and under.

Our most prolific writers (not including current staff members) are:

Rhonda Rauch (22)
Millie Graves (21)
Karen Vosika (20)
Renee Dodds (18)
Elizabeth Tyler Brown (16)
Jean Marie Purcell (15)
Herbie Medlin (12)
Vicki Sourdry (10)
Sylvia Bertran (9)
Pat Gill (9)
Dana Graves (9)
Avis Rust (9)
Jim Koenig (8)
Liath MacTire (8)
Jessie Stinson (8)
Dade Cariaga (8)
Nick DeAngelo (7)
Gary L. Lewis (7)
Norm Maxwell (7)
Shirley Overed (7)
Alexis Lanham (6)
Caitlyn Meng (6)
Deborah Burton (5)
Riley Chambers (5)
Wanda Edwards (5)
Sarah Spaulding (5)
Crystal Spohn (5)
June Wyant (5)
… and a whole bunch more who have submitted less than five.

We are truly blessed!