The Library at Daylily Lay

AHS Portal Revised PowerPoint Show 11-11

My Mentor, Oscie B. Whatley, Jr.

Oscie Whatley, Man from Jakarta

Profile in PDF document format of my late friend and mentor, written and published in 1998 in the Daylily Journal.

Oscie Whatley Interview and 60th Wedding Anniversary

Article in PDF document format that appeared in the Region 11 MoKanOk magazine, 2004

Oscie's Funeral, July 2005 (PDF format)

A posting to the AHS E-mail Robin that was reprinted in the Region 11 MoKanOk magazine and the Daylily Journal.

Oscie Whatley Retrospective

An illustrated review in PDF format of the Whatley cultivars I know, written in December, 2006 and running to 37 pages and 2.9 Megabytes!

Oscie Whatley's 1989 Articles on Hybridizing

These articles were scanned from an AHS reprint, edited as a Word document, and saved as a PDF file.

A 1972 Genetecs Booklet by Joanne Norton

This is a scan of an out-of-print AHS booklet, converted to a Word document and saved as a PDF file.

Journal Entries from E-Passages at the Missouri Humanities Council

In my professional life before my retirement in 2010 I directed a statewide cultural organization concerned with history, literature, and many other studies of human culture. The monthly E-Passages newsletter occasionally contained impromptu essays, and I've gathered some of mine in an area called "Journal Entries."

My Blog, "Creating Interest"

I learned how to set up a blog at http://creatinginterest.blogspot.com in 2007. There you'll find occasional ramblings about books, music, gardens, and the museum world.

The Music Library at Daylily Lay

Song Psyche for David Watkins (1991)

I wrote these four songs for my friend's 50th birthday, then went to another friend's studio and recorded them in a one-hour session. I did a couple of takes of each song and saved the best take. If I were to do this again, I'd hope to sound better. In 1991 I was in the middle of a 10-year layoff from regular singing. I started working on my voice again in 1994 after going to the Pitten Festival in Austria, and in 1998 I joined the St. Louis Symphony Chorus. I'm not to happy with my singing on these recordings, but they represent me well for that time. These are MP3 audio files derived from a cassette tape in a battery-driven tape recorder, so there is some slight wobble in the sound due to the tape player.

1. A Man Like Odysseus

2. Mature

3. Still Do

4. All the People

Selections from the Pitten Music Festival (Austria), 2000-2004

"Youth and Love" from Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Come Sunday by Duke Ellington

Six Nocturnes by W. A. Mozart (with Sandra Bouman, soprano, and Tina Bunce, mezzo-soprano

1. "Lucicare, luci belle"

2. "Se lonton ben mio tu sei"

3. "Due pupille amabili"

4. "Piu non si trovano fra mille amanti"