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Wendover News  
by Barb Gibson, Assistant t0 CEO I
It has been a very wet summer with ·   l
more rain than we normally have. Between    
the rain we have continued the upkeep of   . (
Wendover with no major problems/projects. H   I    
We continue in our efforts to make Wen- A - »  ‘ ‘i
dover more beautiful. Our Bed & Breakfast _ _   y g I
Inn staff do a wonderful job of making our K  S i   ·‘.»      
guests feel welcome. We continue to accommodate ovemight guests  
and to host guests through luncheons, dinners and tour groups. We l
have had several journalists visit recently while touring eastern  
Kentucky. Some of them wrote about Wendover’s Bed & Break-  
fast Inn.  
Upper Shey”Hist0ry l
In the last Wendover News I wrote an update about the j
renovations of the Upper Shelf. The following is a note from  
Michele Bouche, nurse midwife, who lived at the Upper Shelf in  
1980. Her husband remodeled the Upper Shelf during that time:  
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"In the latest Quarterly Bulletin I was fascinated to see a  
picture ofthe Upper Shelf and to read that it was still standing and  
in use. It was an abandoned building with four separate entrances 3
and only outside access to the bathroom when my husband and my j
seven—month-old son and I moved to Wendover so I could attend  
the Frontier School of Midwifery in l978."  
"Dr. Beasley arranged for us to live there rent free in ex-  
change for remodeling the place into a single family dwelling. My  
husband is a building contractor and he did all the work. We put in  
insulation, made a hallway, made a kitchen and lived there for  
three plus years. In fact, our second son was born there on Novem- E
ber l l, 1980, the day of the fire at the little Post Office. We have  
pictures and lots of fond memories of hauling coal buckets up the K ·
l05 stone steps to the Upper SheltY" -MicheIe Bouche