Paint Lick is the story of a village just inside the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky and of the life that Doris Burgess Hayek lived there from her birth in 1917 through the 1920s and 30s. In Doris's Paint Lick, neighbors are family and entertainment includes "sitting till bedtime" with friends, pie suppers, community plays, music at school and in the churches, WSBS (whose call letters stand for "World's Smallest Broadcasting Station"), a visit to Coffee Grounds Lucy, games of croquet under the maple tree in the Burgess family's front yard, and-for the children-the thrill of rolling downhill in...
Paint Lick is the story of a village just inside the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky and of the life that Doris Burgess Hayek lived there from her birth ...
From childhood on, most of us have stories to tell about our lives, and those stories tell far more than a chronological record. Facts, themselves, are only the sets for the many acts in one life. Essays, poems, truth told through fiction, drawings or sketches, and photographs individually and collectively communicate a personality. In my case, all of these means of communication describe who I am (an ordinary person) and how I have grown to 80. -Mason Hayek
From childhood on, most of us have stories to tell about our lives, and those stories tell far more than a chronological record. Facts, themselves, ar...
