Ohio County, KY Cities & Towns

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Ohio County Physical Features & Cultural Features

City, State	Area Code
Beaver Dam, KY	270
Centertown, KY	270
Cromwell, KY	270
Dundee, KY	270
Fordsville, KY	270
Hartford, KY	270
Horse Branch, KY	270
Mc Henry, KY	270
Narrows, KY	270
Olaton, KY	270
Rockport, KY	270
Rosine, KY	270

Home | Contact Us | Sitemap Reports VETERAN ’ S DISABILITY BENEFITS COMMISSION Report Honoring the Call to Duty: Veterans ’ Disability Benefits in the 21st Century (Prepublication Version) October 2007 Full Report (in PDF, 562-pages) Executive Summary (in PDF, 18 pages) To access specific information in the report, please use the chapter-links below: Table of Contents COVER PAGE and Front Matter: Transmittal Letter to President & Congress Commission Member List/Signature Page Staff List Commission Photo List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Preface Abbreviations Executive Summary Guiding Principles Results of the Commission ’ s Analysis Priority Recommendations People are always asking me, " WHERE DID YA COME FROM AND WHERE HAVE  YA BEEN?".

When I tell them that I was born in LOUISIANA and moved to Houston, TEXAS they usually follow up with a second question right behind the first one "Was it cause of Hurricane Katrina?"

No - long time before that! First visit 1995, bought home in 2000. Bought  land and  used home  in 1999 before buying a new home where we live now.

Things have sure changed since I moved to Ohio County, Kentucky! I live outside of any city limits although the cities are starting to blend together.

I wrote for the local weekly Ohio County Messenger until it went out of business in Beaver Dam. That's the closest town to our land that actually has a post office and volunteer fire department. The next closest town is Cromwell. Cromwell has no stop light at all, one gas station/convenience store and a small post office.There has been talk about having another weekly newspaper because the local paper can't afford all the pages it would take to carry alll the news that needs to be carried for a week among all these towns. People around the county have said they miss my weekly column so I decided to start a website and advertise it.

My friends in Texas and Florida want to read it too so, I decided to call it Ohio Country Reporter since the businesses I work with seem to  consider me in the Ohio Valley or the Green River Valley.

I live in Ohio County Kentucky in a rural area and actually outside any town. We live between Beaver Dam and Cromwell along the Western Kentucky Parkway.

It's very rural and I like to tell people I live in a cedar cabin in the wo1ods with my wood burning fireplace. I was never a hippie and never a real yuppie or nerd. I was a small town girl from Monroe, Louisiana that moved with my family to Houston, Texas when I was almost twelve and in the ninth grade. I thought then that Houston was onderful for teenagers growing up that wanted some culture in her life. This was what I wanted to concentrate on with my desire to go into law enforcement and criminal justice with a minro in psychology and philosophy. By the time I grew up and had four daughters, I was aware that we needed to move to Birmingham, Alabama where my husband's job was transferred from NASA in Clear Lake to Rust Engineering. We were middle class and my daughters were in the local Birmingham Theater but was not interested in being on stage.They eventually graduated high school in Florida and I went to Hawaii where my new job was located. After seven years there I decided to return to Texas. I was in Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas where I met my present husband Thomas R. Morris, former U.S. Army Sergeant that happened to have been a real Indiana Jones but family all lived in Kentucky where my ancestors from five generations back all lived at one time on my mothers side. I visited Ohio County Kentucky in May, 1995 for the last performance of Bill Monroe the father of Bluegrass and decided I liked small towns again. That was twelve years ago and I have watched alot of Tom's kin folk grow up! It was fun and Tom and I even became writers for the local newspaper.

We retired from government service and our jobs as truck drivers and now simply write books, do charity work and meet with other veteran's once a month.

I have been doing festivals and events since 1989 and learned that God blessed me with a gift of gab and a talent for coordinating seminars and conventions. In Beaver Dam there was no conventions but they did have a lot of festivals. I quickly became a community volunteer and became a charter member of the Bill Monroe Foudnation and a member of the Rosine Foundation. There were some fund raisers that I did not participate in but I learned quickly that coal severence money that was suppose to be used for certain things sometimes took a detour.

I decided to assist with the Beaver Dam Strawberry Festival in 2001-2002 and again in the 2003 when my two grandsons came to stay the summer. That was a handful but I was already committed to doing a new festival  with the veterans/

This was a lot of fun and work call Fort Hartford Bluegrass District Chili Contest with Judy McClure who got married and moved to Indiana.

Then we did another few festivals and I completed coordinating the ACE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL with local volunteers who have assisted with other festivals we had at the Ohio County Park. There are plenty of local people and people from out of state that like to come to Ohio County. We will have our next ACE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL JUNE 6 & 7th, 2008.

In May, 2007,. It rained all weekend but we were hopeful for the 2008 year but moved it to June 1st weekend due to it always rain the first weekend of MAY. So the volunteer officers who founded the name ACE FOLKLIFE with me decided we should change the date to the first week in JUNE.

Now, we are coordinating the ACE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL at the OHIO COUNTY PARK, Hartford, KY 42347. There is more to do now. We are doing a DVD and also an electronic book, DVD and hardback BOOK once a year to keep up with the ANNUAL HAPPENINGS in OHIO COUNTY.

THE VENDORS WHO CAME INTO ASSIST WITH THE ACE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL FROM ALL OVER OUT OF STATE WERE HELPFUL!

The Ohio County VENDORS decided that in 2008 they wanted to control the FOOD.

I decided that we needed to please everyone but that the local money could be in a separate fund. The local bank wanted us to separate the funds from that made form the festival and that which the Ohio County wanted to control.

So, not only was ACE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL now formed to encourage art-culture-education and folklife but, now we would work together to promote OHIO COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST CHARITY for the locals to control how the money would be used in the county.

I had seen how the locals like to keep the money in OHIO COUNTY to be used among the local businesses since we all don't go very far due to the price of gasoline these days. Seemed like a good idea.

So, I spoke with the OHIO COUNTY FISCAL COURT, tne Ohio County Park Chairman of the Board who advised me, and the local veteran's.

Now, we have people wanting us to fund their fund raisers and organize them too.

I must say that living in rural Ohio County, Kentucky has been a learning experience to say the least.

We are going to have the ACE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL and get the OHIO COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST to assist with volunteers and they will get 50% of the festival funds for the local community. The 50% of the original festival will go toward the annual book to promote Ohio County in marketing and public relations for art, culture, education, and folklife which my original interests. Now, I also have to add the whole local community as a personal interest and attend local fiscal meetings and assist in more fundraisers.

It's fun being involved in a rural county where everybody knows everybody and singers sing and write songs for the festivals.

This is a great place to live and retire and a real American Cultural Experience!
We can always use more friends and volunteers!

"Ya'll come join us at our monthly  meetings and fund raisers!  We are all Ohio Countians and we want to tell  others to come be with us. This way we learn about each other and other cultures that exist not only in other states in  American but,  we can meet people from other countries  from around the world!

The next Art-Culture-Education-Foklife Festival will be JUNE 6th & 7th, 2008  at the Ohio County Park, Hartford, KY.  We are hoping to add a FALL  Ace Folklife Fiddle Fest  on the 2nd week of October at the JERUSALEM RIDGE PARK in Rosine, KY.

The VENUES in OHIO COUNTY when it comes to the OHIO COUNTY PARKS
HIGH VIEW HILLS PARK
JERUSALEM RIDGE PARK
OHIO COUNTY PARK

fall under the jurisdiction OHIO COUNTY MAGISTRATE & FISCAL COURT. The individual small towns and city parks fall under the MAYORS and small town city councils.

THERESA J. MORRIS
TJ MORRIS ACIR PR
656 Carolyn Lane
Beaver Dam, KY 42320-9769
270-274-9673/ 270-775-7090
MsTJMorris@aol.com/tjmorris_us@bellsouth.net

THERESA MORRIS WILL BE ASSISTING ELVIS DOOLIN WITH HIS COUNTRY STORES in MEGAN, ROSINE, and  others as required.

ANY and ALL GENERAL STORES who desire to have THERESA "TJ" MORRIS assist with PUBLICITY, MARKETING, ADVERTISING should call 270-274-9673.

Theresa Morris promotes all the Festivals in OHIO COUNTY!