Last post here was in mid-August. Here it is mid-October. Lots of things happening since August.
The most important events -- (1) Barry's daughter is recovering from her horrible accident; (2) My daughter's family is back intact; (3) A Cincinnati Reds ball game and a trip to Xenia Ohio highlight September.
I spoke to the Yellow Springs, OH, Historical Society on September 24, about the Buster family of Monticello, KY, Danville, KY, and Xenia, OH. It's a fascinating story in and of itself, but what makes it even more special was extracting the facts from an historical novel written by one of Garret Buster's grandchildren, recalling events over a hundred years before. There was much fiction, dates and names didn't match, but several of us working together, managed to pull together the "true" story of the family.
I had presented this talk last November in Danville to the African-American Genealogy Group of Kentucky; this past February in Monticello to the Wayne County Historical Society (the first EVER Black History Month event in Wayne County!), and now in Yellow Springs. We stayed with a member of the Buster family who took us all over the area at sites that are important to the family's story. And I was so privileged to have shared the story with over 70 people, a majority of whom were descended from Garret Buster, the enslaved man who bought himself and his family, and left slavery behind.
So maybe now, I'll be more faithful at posting...
