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Rev. Joey N. Welsh, Nov. 19, 2006: Thanksgiving ANOTHER ANGLE: the occasional musings of a Kentucky pastor By The Rev. Joey N. Welsh joey_n_welsh@hotmail.com A THANKSGIVING HOMAGE TO JOE CREASON It has now been 32 years since the death of Joe Creason, columnist forthe Louisville Courier-Journal. It is amazing to me to realize that awhole generation of folks has grown to adulthood, many even passingthe age of 40, without knowing the pleasure of seeing Creason'scolumns in the morning paper. His "Joe Creason's Kentucky" columnbegan in 1963. That was the year of John F. Kennedy's assassination; Iwas in the fifth grade, and right about then I began to follow thenews and read columnists. Each of us in Iva Dillingham's class had to make a weekly oralpresentation on current events, and I tried to make my presentationsthe very best and most interesting of all the fifth graders. Mostother kids reported on whatever topic was on the front page in bigheadlines. I scoured the newspaper each day for the kind of quirky andappealing tidbits that I hoped no one else would bring to class. By the time of Creason's death in 1974, I was in college, and I hadgrown up reading him and other columnists at the "C-J," as well aslooking for "Lois" in the political cartoons of Hugh Haynie. Iconsider the time I spent reading the newspaper to be one of the mostvaluable parts of my education. Nowadays, some people know Joe Creason's name because of theLouisville park across from the zoo on Trevilian Way dedicated in hismemory; he died there while playing tennis. Others know nothing abouthim at all. Joe Creason is worth noting, whether or not you read himin the past. I grew up believing that sooner or later Joe Creason surely wouldwrite a column about everything of interest in Kentucky. In my eyes,he was the best person to write a Kentucky column and the C-J was thebest paper to publish such a column. Those were the days when theBingham-owned Courier-Journal was the state newspaper of record, withreporters scattered in news bureaus around the Commonwealth. Back thenthat newspaper was a part of the glue that held together the far-flungcorners of the state. The paper also was written gracefully in a literate manner. Peoplecould learn proper grammar and syntax from reading its articles, andits columns could serve the reader as an English language stylebook.Now, of course, the Gannett Courier-Journal primarily is a MetroLouisville publication with grammatical standards that are a shadow ofthose from previous times. Joe Creason died before it was possible to cover quite everythingnoteworthy or interesting about the Commonwealth, but he left behind adelightful legacy. For Thanksgiving week I share Joe Creason's versionof the legendary beginnings of the holiday. As usual, he told hisstory with a Kentucky twist. As you read along, you will note that the account contains a lot ofwords written in all-capitalized letters; each of these words is acity, town or crossroads somewhere in Kentucky. Following each placename is a notation of its Kentucky county location. Let's remember thestory of Thanksgiving anew, told in Joe Creason's special way, andfeel thankful again for our many, many blessings. As for me, one thingfor which I ever am thankful is the opportunity I had to grow upreading Joe Creason regularly in my hometown newspaper.
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