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the bid was only $70,000 at that time. The powers that be at that time saw no need for a elevator, as they were not old enough then to have any need.
We were also very busy that summer planning and then experiencing a celebration of our 50th wedding anniversary that took place on August 27 (26 was the actual date). Since we were decidedly not fans of dull parties, we wanted to make it a musical one, so from 2 to 5, we staggered musical performances by various of our talented friends, including Mike Tunnell (Corno), Naomi Oliphant (piano) and tenor Dan Weeks, Anne Richardson (cello), and Glenna Metcalfe (organ), with John Hale as master of ceremonies to keep it especially lively. The five grandchildren were waitresses serving Laina Brown’s tasty creations, and Maria and Michelle were charming hostesses. They had made t-shirts with 50 on them for all of us to wear, so we could preserve the casual aspect of the party and satisfy my need to not wear a dress! In our somewhat biased opinions, it was a glorious celebration, with the Bach Haus as a fantastic venue.
No sooner had the dust settled on that party when another FALL was executed by Melvin. This FALL came on September 7, when I came home to find Melvin sprawled on the kitchen floor. He said his leg had just given way. Vic our neighbor and I, and later Joe, got him into bed, but later it became apparent that the leg needed some attention. EMS sent two very inept people who were not able to get him into an ambulance, so they called the fire department and FIVE firemen came. They determined the best thing was to cut the bedroom screen and take him out the window. (Didn’t fix the screen either). After a couple of weeks in Bap East, with surgery that produced cellulitis this time, he was released to the Episcopal Church Home, where he was an extremely polite but reluctant victim all the way up to November 16!! Then ensued a couple of months of home therapy with some very nice people. The food was pretty good at ECH, and we dined often with a dental assistant named Kim and her mom, and that association led me to Dr. Sims, who is still my dentist.
When the LBS was dissolved, it was mandatory to dispose of all the material assets, including the vast music library. We had lobbied for the entire library to be donated to Calvary and after some amount of dissention when a couple of board members thought it should go to Mark Walker’s new group, the library was given to Calvary. We assumed it would still remain at the Bach Haus, since there should have been no need to move it to Calvary and no space at the time to store it in the Loft. Wrong. Erdman and crew decided that they needed to have it all ON SITE, SO THEY BUILT SHELVES IN THE LOFT. One day when Melvin was still in the hospital, Will Cary hired Chappell Movers, and they descended on our house and grabbed absolutely all of the music stored there and took it to Calvary! I had to personally block them from talking our own organ music and books. I had only gotten a mandate that morning that they were coming, and had to rush home from Calvary to let them in and protect Maggie dog and our own things. Our idea was that all of this music should be used as a community lending library, and there was no reason for them to act that way. I realized much later that they had something else in mind for me and they thought they better get the stuff out of our house before that happened. Such genteel people. And that was not all! The tympani were special Baroque tympani that Melvin had received personally as a gift to the LBS from Dr. Bogdan Nedelkoff, a longtime friend and board member for whom Melvin had done a big favor years before. (LBS performed the Mozart Requiem at St. Agnes Catholic Church as a memorial to Bogdan’s wife). Melvin, after the LBS dissolution, had given the tympani to Marlon Hurst, director of the Lexington Bach Society, for their use, as this was the only Kentucky group carrying on the Bach tradition. Erdman loved tympani so he didn’t want to let them go there, but wanted to keep them at