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Meetup - Burkesville with Brandon Thompson & Lynwood Montell Burkesville was supposed to be Kentucky's best kept secret. Maybe not any more. And that may explain why it so frequent that one can meet up with world famous people - congressmen, world renowned economists, powerful politicians, artists, story tellers and more. That's what happened Friday, with chance meeting with J. Brandon Thompson and Lynwood Montell occurred impromptu, where, it was learned, Thompson has joined a prestigious insurance firm in Cumberland County, and could make a momentarily crippling fall a humorous story - he's a gifted story teller. Montell, from neighboring Monroe County, ever the performer, told us more about Cumberland County than many could in a 90-minute prepared lecture. He also regaled us singing the only four lines written for "The Ballad of Joe Coleman," written after he was hung for a crime his accuser confessed to 20 years later. Click on headline for complete story w/photo(s) By Linda Waggener In an impromptu meeting at the end of the buffet, three gentlemen, J. Brandon Thompson, and Lynwood Montell, and my husband Ed, and I met at Jones' Restaurant in Burkesville Friday, 22 June 2018. It was Thompson who said to us, "I didn't expect to see you here," at the same time I said to him, "You have a broken leg!?" Then it was Montell who said, "are you Waggeners from Burkesville?" Then right there at the buffet corner, there followed a world of answering and explaining and edging this way and that to accommodate buffet traffic as needed. It's a wonder the buffet police didn't get a call, but all was well. Thompson eats there as a regular in his work at Wade Flowers State Farm agency in Cumberland County. He maneuvered the buffet pretty well even with a broken leg. He explained that he wished he could attribute the injury to skiing or something more exotic than the fact that it happened as he was taking out the trash. He does have lots of support in recovery from his wife Tiffany Parnell Thompson and their almost two-year-old son, Emmitt Jeffrey. Montell said he drives from his home in Bowling Green to Burkesville once every month to eat the home cooking at Jones' Restaurant and share stories. He is a writer of many books through his years as WKU professor and he served on the founding board of the Janice and Henry Giles Foundation in Knifley. When he learned I'm from Sulphur Well in Metcalfe County, he asked me when I met the calf? Lol. I had no answer for that but it wasn't needed, as he went on to tell the story of the 1800s Cumberland County hanging of Joe Coleman, an innocent man, who was framed by the actual murderer of his, Coleman's wife. Long years after the hanging, Montell said, the actual murderer, who framed Joe Coleman, confessed to his family on his death bed. The real murderer had lived out some 20 more years in Oklahoma. In the introductions of Thompson and Montell, there wasn't time for the long version of who Montell is and his relevance to this area which was written up best in the article in ColumbiaMagazine.com archives at this link by Tom Chaney who said then he could always be found telling stories, planning his next meal, and occasionally selling books at his bookstore in Horse Cave, KY. Problem is, then you need to explain who the extraordinary writer/bookseller Tom Chaney is. And alas, there's so little time. My first husband Ed explained his presence -- he feels compelled to travel in Cumberland County often to take photos for the readers of ColumbiaMagazine.com, for the beauty of the landscape between his birthplace, Columbia, and the county seat, Burkesville, and then loop around through the Marrowbone Valley and Metcalfe County, the site of his first getting assigned the nickname 'paper boy' from then Judge Woodrow Wilson, and where he discovered his first wife. And since there really is so little time, that's a story that will be saved for another impromptu meeting somewhere in the future. This story was posted on 2018-06-22 16:19:11
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