{"id":396,"date":"2005-11-09T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/11\/09\/tales-of-the-graybeard-prospector-ii\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:22:45","slug":"tales-of-the-graybeard-prospector-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/396","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the Graybeard Prospector II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; &nbsp; Went to the Community Arts Center with Dana for the Great American Brass Band Festival\u2019s annual recognition luncheon. Mary Q told everyone that Dixon Design was honored with a \u201cTraverse Award\u201d from the Kentucky Tourism Council for our brochure design promoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Brass+Band+Festival&amp;submit=Search\">the Festival<\/a>. The distinction was announced recently at the awards dinner the Council hosts in conjunction with the Kentucky Department of Tourism&#8217;s annual meeting.\n<\/p>\n<p>One of the nicest things to happen was to have both John A and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2005\/07\/07\">Vince D<\/a> stand up to compliment us personally and salute our work on behalf of the Festival. Vince&#8217;s tribute was particularly warm. Although I expected that our award would be mentioned, I did not anticipate his kind remarks about our long-term influence on the image of the Festival. To be honest, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever gotten a public endorsement from anyone at his level of talent. It was a rare moment.\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve won the \u201cTraverse\u201d twice previously (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dixondesign.com\/honors.html\">in 1997 and 2000<\/a>) for tourism pieces we did for the local Convention and Visitor&#8217;s Bureau. Perhaps this time we\u2019ll make a better effort to capitalize on the special recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; &nbsp; Went to the Community Arts Center with Dana for the Great American Brass Band Festival\u2019s annual recognition luncheon. Mary Q told everyone that Dixon Design was honored with a \u201cTraverse Award\u201d from the Kentucky Tourism Council for our brochure design promoting the Festival. The distinction was announced recently at the awards dinner the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,12,23,16,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}