Blue Ridge Parkway
Pictures taken along the Blue Ridge Parkway recently.
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WILLIAM “BILL” H. MCCANN JR
KENTUCKY PLAYWRIGHT & WRITER
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Arts' Watch: Playwrights as Entrepreneurs
Published 8:46 pm Thursday, March 10, 2022 Bill McCann By Special to The Winchester Sun Bill McCann is an arts columnist, playwright,...
Poetry challenge: George Ella Lyon
It is not too late to write a poem and submit it to the Winchester Sun for possible publication. Perhaps, though George Ella Lyons' poem...
It's not too late: Write a poem
It is only the second day of April, the second day of National Poetry Month, so you still have time to write a poem of your own. Need...
It's Not Too Late
It's not too late to write your first radio play script. If you need advice, re-read my article in Undermain, the online arts magazine...
Interview with Robby Henson
Recently, on WEKU (88.9 FM)'s Eastern Standard I interviewed Robby Henson about Voices Inside. Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, best known...
April is National Poetry Month
April is a month for poets. So write a poem. On Sunday the Winchester Sun posted a poem by Winchester poet Becky Shepherd: Dreamland I...
Playwrights and Poets
Here's my latest Arts' Watch column in the Winchester Sun about playwright entrepreneurs and opportunities for poets during...
What is 2022 to be?
Today is the first day of Spring 2022. Here aresome possibilities: 2022 will be a year of Spring in March? Pictures taken by the author...
It's Disc Golf Season!
It's that time of year--at least in Winchester, KY: disc golf season! Starting Thursday night is the the spring disc golf league at the...
Local Artist's Painting is at State Capitol
Winchester artist Kevin Osborne's painting is on display in the state capitol through June 30th. Details are in my Arts' Watch column...
Arts' Watch: 3 Questions for Matthew Hallock
Recently,I spoke with Matthew Hallock, head of thetheatre program at Centre College about that school's theatre programs and the...
Theatre of the Mind: Now on WEKU
Eastern Kentucky University's public radio station, WEKU (88.9 FM), is sponsoring a radio play contest. Through May 15, 2022 the station...
Governor and first lady seek artists for capitol art exhibit
Gov. Andy Beshear and First Lady Britainy Beshear have invited Kentuckians to lend their artistic talents to the Team Kentucky Gallery,...
Kentucky Book Festival: Running through Saturday
This year the Kentucky Humanities Council’s fortieth annual celebration of the state’s authors—and books, generally—concludes at Joseph...
A Turn of the Screw
Head to Louisville to see Kentucky Shakespeare's intimate two-person version of The Turn of the Screw at their new venue in Old...
Hauntings
Looking for a good scare? Well, in Campton, not much more than 30 minutes from Winchester, is the Haunted Barn. Located at 120 Campbell...
Kentucky Humanities Magazine Highlights State Playwrights
The Kentucky Humanities Council twice a year publishes a magazine featuring articles about people who have contributed to the state's...
2nd Thursday at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum
A Kentucky Chautauqua performance featuring Michael Jones as Colonel Charles Young, a native of Mason County, who was the third African...
COUNTRY TRAFFIC JAM
My Country Traffic Jam blog, which lasted six months in 2013-2014, was an effort to write at least one poem a day. I achieved that goal—and then some. And from those some were selected for inclusion in Seasons, a book of poetry with photographs by Jeanine Grant Lister. Seasons is now available on Amazon.