Rhonda and I celebrated our nineteenth anniversary this past weekend, and did so with a very memorable trip. We spent Friday and Saturday at Embassy Suites in Lexington, Kentucky at a Conference. I was able to promote my best-selling book there and made contact with a gentleman whom I knew previously who has a family member who is a writer and may be publishing with me. This place was beautiful and gracious and we attended a lavish banquet on Friday night.
Saturday afternoon we drove down to Renfro Valley, home of the famous Barn Dance and Country Music Show which has been broadcast throughout the past several decades. There we spent the night at the Heritage Inn and Suites where the Country music stars stay. The wall of the office is jammed with framed and signed photos of dozens of them including Loretta Lynn, John Conlee, Jo Dee Messina and lots more. This year they will be hosting such favorites as Ronny Millsap, Aaron Tippin and Lee Greenwood.
In March I will be doing an update of the paperback version of Most Comprehensive Origins of Cliches, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions in which Renfro Valley will be mentioned.