Episode 007 Field Notes Leary Lake, Lloyds, Baseball & Shakespeare
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See Notes Below:
https://www.nkyviews.com/boone/boone_john_uri_lloyd_main.htm
Pack full of history and photos
Puck or Robin Goodfellow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream)
Life timeline. https://lloydlibrary.org/wp-content/themes/Lloyd_wptheme/finding-aids/Curtis%20Gates%20Lloyd%20Papers%201859-1926.pdf
History of John Uri Lloyd https://www.erlanger.kyschools.us/content_page2.aspx?cid=330
Kentucky living article; https://www.kentuckyliving.com/lifestyle/remembering-curtis-lloyd
History of the three brothers: https://lloydlibrary.org/about/a-brief-history-of-the-lloyd-library-and-museum/
John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936)
Nelson Ashley Lloyd (1851-1925) and
Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859-1926).
Herdal medicine verses Allopathic
Nelson part owner in Reds and Giants
What is mycological study? mycology, the study of fungi, a group that includes the mushrooms and yeasts. Many fungi are useful in medicine and industry. Mycological research has led to the development of such antibiotic drugs as penicillin, streptomycin, and tetracycline, as well as other drugs, including statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs).
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife owns, leases or manages more than 85 wildlife management areas (WMAs) for public use. In some areas, a user permit is required. It also has agreements to provide public access on certain privately owned lands, known as Hunting Access Areas. Many public-use areas have special regulations and hunting season dates that are different from statewide seasons. In some public-use areas, a user permit is required. Please refer to specific area listings for that information. The rest are open to hunting free of additional charge.
CURTIS G. LLOYD BORN 1859 — DIED 60 OR MORE YEARS AFTERWARDS. THE EXACT NUMBER OF YEARS, MONTHS AND DAYS THAT HE LIVED NOBODY KNOWS AND NOBODY CARES. CURTIS G. LLOYD MONUMENT ERECTED IN 1922 BY HIMSELF FOR HIMSELF DURING HIS LIFE TO GRATIFY HIS OWN VANITY. WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!
Etidorhpa Aphrodita spelled backwards.
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/john-uri-lloyd/
4.6 acre lake
https://sacred-texts.com/earth/eti/eti38.htm Etidorhpa
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-masonic-murder-that-inspired-the-us-first-third-party-180982495/ Morgan and Puck
Rouse Family.
Joe Leary Frankfort Attorney (name of lake)
Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists, Inc., 1870-1938
Welcome to another episode of FishingLocalWaters.com. Today we are at Leary lake in the Curtis Gates Lloyd WMA. Leary Lake, The Lloyds, and Shakespeare
https://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/ Ben Franklin autobiography
Leary Lake is in Crittenden Kentucky of Grant County and Northern Kentucky. It is named after Joe Leary, a lawyer from Frankford Kentucky, who in 1963 helped negotiate the terms and conditions to transfer the properties associated with the Lloyd Library Botanical Park, also known as the Lloyd Wildlife and Recreation Area, to become part of the 1,105 acres that now make up the Curtis Gates Lloyd Wildlife Management Area or WMA.
The 4.6 acre, Leary Lake is a FINs lake and therefore routinely stocked by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife. The lake is just minutes from the I-75 Crittenden exit, and has a more remote feel than many of the FINs lakes located in public parks.
For those who do not know FINs stands for Fishing In Neighborhoods.
It is well maintained, with the grass cut in a manner to allow several points of bank access along the north side of the lake and the entirety of the dam. The south side of the lake is adjacent to a forest with a traditional trail system for those who prefer a more natural setting. Add in the newly constructed fishing pier and the lake provides several fishing options.
Like many of the WMA’s there are no posted hours, therefore you can fish later into the evening. However, there is no camping or campfires allowed and make sure you have your fishing license with you and a line in the water. The State Police Post is nearby, and enforcement is maintained.
There is a well-maintained port o let in the parking lot.
In the making of every episode, I fish the body of water and talk to the locals. Be prepared to deal with snapping turtles, the locals warned me of such, and I didn’t listen. I snagged a five pounder by the hind foot, he was irritated, and he and I had a hell of a time negotiation the return of my $2.00 fishing lure. Eventually he gave it back and retreated into the water.
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife owns, leases, or manages more than 85 wildlife management areas (WMAs) for public use. This WMA has a public tube shooting range, Trap, and Skeet and archery range.
But this WMA has an additional feature that is unlike any other WMA. There is a unique 6 ton granite monument located in the center of the WMA that was placed here by Curtis Gate Lloyd himself.
Curtis Llyod was a highly regarded mycologist, collector of fungi samples, pharmacist, and scientific author, He had collected books from across the world and established a research library for medicine that is housed today at the four-story Lloyd Library and Museum located at 917 Plum St, Cincinnati, OH
To say that he was a man of many words is an understatement. And yet he elected to erect a monument to himself and narrow down his last message to the world to 51 words.
On one side of the monument, he scribed.
CURTIS G. LLOYD BORN 1859 — DIED 60 OR MORE YEARS AFTERWARDS. THE EXACT NUMBER OF YEARS, MONTHS AND DAYS THAT HE LIVED NOBODY KNOWS AND NOBODY CARES.
On the other side it is written.
CURTIS G. LLOYD MONUMENT ERECTED IN 1922 BY HIMSELF FOR HIMSELF DURING HIS LIFE TO GRATIFY HIS OWN VANITY. WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!
Curtis G. Lloyd was cremated, and his ashes were spread upon this land. Therefore, this monument does serve as his memorial. The words written upon it have been recorded verbatim in several newspapers and other historical documents. I have found no attempt to unravel why these 51 words were selected.
Curtis Lloyd was the youngest brother of three brothers who owned and operated the Cincinnati based Llyod Brothers Pharmacists Inc. from 1886 to 1924. All three completed the associated apprenticeship program and became master and board approved pharmacist.
John Uri Lloyd to whom Erlanger/Lloyd High School is named was the chief pharmacist and the oldest of the three brothers.
Nelson Ashley Lloyd, the middle brother, was an early owner and partner in both the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants professional baseball teams and served as the CFO for the Llyod Brothers Pharmacists.
Curtis Gates Lloyd, the younger of the three, travel the world collecting plant specimens and relating historical text and books. This information was used by the Pharmacy and still being used today for research.
As I studied Curtis’ life I saw a lot of characteristics that reminded me of Ben Franklin. They both traveled and immensely enjoyed their time abroad. Both loved meeting new people and immersing into new cultures. Both understood the “power of the pen”. Neither shied from expressing a viewpoint that might offend. Both had a background in publishing. Both were incredibly bright, creative, and in a constant quest for new understandings.
And both addressed vanity in their closing writings to the world. At the beginning of Part 1 of Ben Franklin’s Autobiography he writes:
And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity.
Ben went on to write.
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
Rather or not Ben Franklin’s writings directly influence Curtis’ writing, I do not know. I do know that both text are written in the same vein.
It is the last sentence that throws everybody into a tizzy… WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE! The reader can’t help but step back and ponder, did Curtis Lloyd just set himself above us simple mortals and call us fools? Before we allow are own vanity to intercede. Let’s take a look at the source material.
What fools these mortals be is a direct quote from Shakespears’ A midsummer Nights dream. It was uttered by one of the characters, a mischievous fairy of the forest named Robin "Puck" Goodfellow, who had been sent to find and concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called "love-in-idleness", While doing so he was interrupted by several humans who had entered the forest looking for love. What happens next has become one of Shakespeare's most popular and is widely performed comedies. Like Puck, Curtis had been sent into the forest to find elements to concoct medicines and personal observation would have been one of his most valued means of scientific discovery.
As we did deeper into Puck and his famous quote, we find that it was used a lot more than just on the stage of the Globe playhouse and here on Curtis Llyod’s tombstone. The Puck magazine was the first successful humor magazine in the United States that addressed the issues of the day using colorful cartoons, illustrations, and political satire. It was published from 1876 until 1918. The heading of the publication included Puck and a banner the read “what fools these mortals be. This magazine was the first to successfully adopt full-color lithography printing for a weekly publication. As such, Curtis would have been very aware of this magazine. Particularly when the magazine published several cartoons addressing the medical quackery of the time.
There is a third possible, more direct, more pointed, meaning behinds these words. There are local stories that Curtis offered to fund the construction of a new Crittenden High School, his only request was that it be named Crittenden Lloyd High School, in the same manner Erlanger Lloyd, was named after his older brother John. This makes sense since both of his parents had previously taught school in Crittenden. According to the oral history, the school board turned down his charity on the grounds of Curtis’ religious beliefs or lack thereof. Being a man of science, having a religious background, and feeling a slight to his parents, I can see where Curtis could have made a decision to plant a 6 ton, unmovable rock, in the area and leave behind these parting words.
Perhaps Curtis was just repeating an observation already made by Shakespear, or using the same humor illustrated over and over again in the Puck magazine, or had a more direct point to make, we may never know. We do know is that thanks to Curtis Gates Lloyd and his brothers, we have one of Kentucky’s finest WMA’s in northern Kentucky, The Cincinnati Reds, and a world renown research Library in Cincinnati. For that we need to give them thanks.
This episode explores Leary Lake and the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Curtis G Lloyd Wildlife Management Area located in Crittenden, Kentucky. We investigate the history of the Llyod Brothers and the odd monument erected by Curtis G Lloyd for himself and by himself to gratify his own vanity. We include elements that connects the Lloyds to the Cincinnati Reds, Ben Franklin, and William Shakespeare.
Leary Lake, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife, Curtis G Lloyd, John Uri Lloyd, Nelson Ashley Lloyd, WMA, Wildlife Management Area, Crittenden, Kentucky, Llyod Brother’s Pharmacy, Lloyd Museum, Lloyd Library, Lloyd Memorial High School, Cincinnati Reds, Ben Franklin, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night Dream, Puke, Puke Magazine, Mycology, What Fools These Mortals Be,
Here is the latest segment release about Leary Lake https://youtu.be/aZ3QarqYZWA
This episode explores Leary Lake and the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Curtis G Lloyd Wildlife Management Area located in Crittenden, Kentucky. We investigate the history of the Llyod Brothers and the odd monument erected by Curtis G Lloyd for himself and by himself to gratify his own vanity. We include elements that connects the Lloyds to the Cincinnati Reds, Ben Franklin, and William Shakespeare.
During our research we found a photo of Curtis sitting with two female bare chested natives. We dertermined that the photo had been created by stacking glass negatives and inserting Curtis into the photo between the two females. He then publiched the photo as a Christmas Card. Thus illustrating his wit and gamesmanship.