The Library at Daylily Lay
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.
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 I direct a statewide cultural organization concerned with history, literature, and many other studies of human culture. We have a family education program to assure that every new parent knows how to make a baby want to become a reader, we support a statewide program to give everyone an opportunitity to read the same book and talk about it, we broker tours and community activities around Smithsonian exhibits, and we provide services to museums and historical organizations to help them be wonderful. Our monthly E-Passages newsletter occasionally contains impromptu essays, and I've gathered some of mine in an area called "Journal Entries."
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 a 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.