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Thomas Peyton Chaney (1 December 1937 - 26 November 2022) Obituary: Thomas Peyton Chaney, 85, Horse Cave, KY (1937-2022) By Robert Stone 26 November 2022 If I had known what was coming, I would have started a journal and began making notes about my Horse Cave. I believe I first was there in the fall of 1990 when Jay Murphy and I spent a night and attended a play at Horse Cave Theater. It was not the first time I was through Horse Cave because I began to visit Sonora and Elizabehtown in 1963 but just had driven on through Horse Cave without ever stopping. My friends know how much I enjoy going to the theater and I began to go to Horse Cave often to see a play. I also began to stop in The Bookstore which was a used book store and restaurant when it first opened. One day I bought a book. When I got home I noticed that it had belonged to my high school English teacher, Virginia Chaney. So on my next trip I asked Tom about it. Virginia Chaney was the wife of Tom's uncle Carl Chaney. Years later on one of my trips with him I asked him to drive through Sonora, Kentucky, and he pointed out the school where she had first taught. It was a very short distance from the home I had visited in 1963. Horse Cave Theater was a much bigger operation than one could expect in such a small town and I went often and got to know dozens and dozens of people. One of them was Rob Stout, the minister of the Methodist Church, also a theater person, who gave me a key to the parsonage and said, just come on in when you come to Horse Cave whether I am home or not. Tom wrote a weekly book review column "Of Writers and Their Books" for the Hart County News Herald. This began in February 2005 and totals about 275 columns. I would preview many of the columns and make a suggestion here and there. After they were published I would send them out as an email to about two hundred readers. Later I also sent them to the online only newspaper ColumbiaMagazine.com, where more than a hundred are available. The earliest one there is 24 September 2006. Tom liked to drive and I often rode along with him. One Sunday afternoon when we got back to The Bookstore I said, we have been all over Hart County, so much so that Tom drove through the county seat Munfordville from five different directions. I also rode along with him when he went to get free-range eggs. I think that invitation might have been because you had to get out and open and close a gate going into and out of the farm and I was the gate person. Tom's cousin Andy Paulson spent a night in Horse Cave when I was there and he took us to breakfast at Mammoth Cave. Afterwards he read us poetry in the Old Guides Cemetery. I opened my LiveJournal account the next day, saying I was probably the only person to do that the day after they had breakfast with the CEO of the company that owned LiveJournal. Tom had worked in Philadelphia for Sarah Lilley who moved to Horse Cave when she retired and rented a house from Tom and his sister Ann. I already had a key to that house on Yancey Street and Sally pointed out one room and said, this is your room and you have the key, when you come to Horse Cave just make yourself at home whether I am here or not. Sally walked a lot but on her first walk from 'downtown' Horse Cave she went south instead of east and called back after a while. I went to pick her up and she had walked almost into the next county. Tom is a very good cook. After 2001 the Bookstore ceased being a restaurant because the inspectors wanted a lot of expensive upgrades but Tom would still prepare lunch for himself, his employees, friends, and occasional tourists who just happened to be in the store and sometimes got an invitation to sit down and eat. One couple was from Watertown, New York, and years later I still get a long email from him about three times a year. Tom was an ordained Baptist minister but never pastored a church. He did do weddings. I was at two, one between the shelves of The Bookstore and the other on the bank of Barren River Lake. I went with him many times to the Presbyterian Church in Munfordville. I played for the service there on 6 February 2011, the day after Bob Beimdick's funeral. Bob was a retired teacher and worked in The Bookstore. I gave him a lot of books to sell in his bookstore. At first the idea was that if he sold one of 'my' books I would get part of the money but I said, no, too much trouble, forget that. Tom gave me a lot of meals and a place to stay and introduced me to many people I otherwise would never have met. Tom was a great storyteller. Lark Digges-Elliott and I stood on the street corner and watched the Christmas parade one year and then went into The Bookstore. A conversation started about darkness and Tom made observations about how we modern people don't really understand darkness because of all the artificial light we are surrounded by. Tom never made a comment on any poem I wrote. He did once say that I talked too much and that I laughed at my own jokes. I said, you are right and I am going to keep on doing it. This story was posted on 2022-11-27 11:37:58
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