I spent last night continuing to do my walking of the neighborhood passing out the handbills on Wellingmoor Avenue Proctor Court and Proctor Knott Drive.
As I walked my amateur ethnographer came out and I noted a bunch of people are better than me at making Azaleas bloom. Some people take really good care of their houses.
There is also a lovely wood sculpture of a fleur de lis on Proctor Knott that is about 36 inches high. I just snapped a picture of it but I have decided not to post it because I did not get permission. The creativity of it is that it is the trunk of a tree that appeared to have been taken down.
Otherwise, the other ethnographic (maybe only interesting to me) point about Proctor Knott Drive is that the houses are on foundations when it is the highest elevation of the neighborhood. The houses on other streets are on slabs and basements. I can see the houses on Fureen be on foundations because they they are at a lower elevation and the water table seems higher there especially with the intermediate creek.
Azaleas and house foundations aside, there was a curiosity as to who was Proctor Knott? Was he anyone particular special? In the scheme of things he did not sound like the most interesting of men, but a street and a horse are named for him.
James Proctor Knott was the 29th Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887 and a member of Congress, representing Kentucky for two terms. He also served briefly in the Missouri Legislature prior to his stints as Kentucky Governor and Congressman. He was born in Raywick KY 1830 and he died in Lebanon KY in 1911.
He spent a good deal of his life in public service. In this time, he was known for a satirical speech in Congress that helped torpedo land grants to the railroads to expand west and north called "The Delights of Duluth," that actually got him a town named after him in Minnesota that eventually was shortened to just "Proctor."
Otherwise, Proctor Knott the horse was a Thoroughbred Gelding that lived from 1886 to 1891 that raced 26 times and had 11 wins, 6 second place and 4 thirds. He had won the 1888 Futurity Stakes that had a cash prize of $45, 375 ($1.2 M in 2019 due to inflation) and he had life time case winnings of $80,350 ($2.15 M in 2019 due to inflation).
As I walked my amateur ethnographer came out and I noted a bunch of people are better than me at making Azaleas bloom. Some people take really good care of their houses.
There is also a lovely wood sculpture of a fleur de lis on Proctor Knott that is about 36 inches high. I just snapped a picture of it but I have decided not to post it because I did not get permission. The creativity of it is that it is the trunk of a tree that appeared to have been taken down.
Otherwise, the other ethnographic (maybe only interesting to me) point about Proctor Knott Drive is that the houses are on foundations when it is the highest elevation of the neighborhood. The houses on other streets are on slabs and basements. I can see the houses on Fureen be on foundations because they they are at a lower elevation and the water table seems higher there especially with the intermediate creek.
Azaleas and house foundations aside, there was a curiosity as to who was Proctor Knott? Was he anyone particular special? In the scheme of things he did not sound like the most interesting of men, but a street and a horse are named for him.
James Proctor Knott was the 29th Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887 and a member of Congress, representing Kentucky for two terms. He also served briefly in the Missouri Legislature prior to his stints as Kentucky Governor and Congressman. He was born in Raywick KY 1830 and he died in Lebanon KY in 1911.
Otherwise, Proctor Knott the horse was a Thoroughbred Gelding that lived from 1886 to 1891 that raced 26 times and had 11 wins, 6 second place and 4 thirds. He had won the 1888 Futurity Stakes that had a cash prize of $45, 375 ($1.2 M in 2019 due to inflation) and he had life time case winnings of $80,350 ($2.15 M in 2019 due to inflation).
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