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Mary Ruffner Covered Bridge was built in 1875 over Little Rush Creek about three miles north of Rushville. In 1986 she was moved to a private property in Perry County.

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Vintage postcard by Iauiuasinu. Photo: Lorenzo Agius / MGM. Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore in Hannibal (Ridley Scott, 2001).

Welsh actor and composer Anthony Hopkins (1937) won his first Best Actor Oscar for playing the psychiatrist and psychotic cannibal Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). He was educated at Cardiff College of Drama and trained at RADA then carved out a solid stage career, resisting the screen's pull until he was 30. Then he gave life to many historical figures in films and miniseries from presidents to writers and military leaders. His gallery of characters includes Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon, John Quincy Adams, Charles Dickens, Adolf Hitler, Yitzhak Rabin, Pablo Picasso, and C.S. Lewis. At 85, he won his second Oscar for his role in The Father (2020).

Philip Anthony Hopkins was born in 1937, in Margam, Wales. He was the only child of Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a couple who ran a bakery. His early ambition was to be a concert pianist. Hopkins was inspired by fellow Welsh actor Richard Burton, whom he met at 15. The meeting influenced him to study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. After graduating in 1957, he served two years in the British Army before beginning his acting career. In 1960, Hopkins made his debut at Manchester's Library Theatre. He then joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for two years. After graduating, he spent three seasons at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1964 Hopkins composed a waltz named 'And The Waltz Goes On' but kept it in a drawer for many years until his wife contacted Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu in 2010. Rieu arranged the piece and it premiered in Vienna in 2011 in the presence of Anthony Hopkins. Rieu included the waltz in his playlist for his next tour and produced a CD named after the waltz. In 1965, Laurence Olivier spotted him and invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. Productions at the National included 'King Lear', 'Coriolanus', 'Macbeth', and 'Antony and Cleopatra'. In 1967, he made his first film for television, the comedy A Flea in Her Ear (Michael Hayes, 1967), based on the play by Georges Feydeau. From that moment on, he enjoyed a successful career in cinema and television. He had his breakthrough as Richard the Lionheart in the historical drama A Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968) with Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn. He portrayed Charles Dickens in the television film The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970), and Pierre Bezukhov in the mini-series War and Peace (1972), receiving the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in the latter. Making a name for himself as a screen actor, he appeared in the Neo-Noir action thriller The Looking Glass War (Frank Pierson, 1970), and When Eight Bells Toll (Étienne Périer, 1971). In 1972 Hopkins starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston, the first of five collaborations with director Richard Attenborough. In 1977, he appeared in Attenborough's all-star war epic A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977) with James Caan, Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould, Laurence Olivier, and Maximilian Schell. The following year, he starred in Attenborough's psychological horror film Magic (Richard Attenborough, 1978) about a demonic ventriloquist's puppet with critic Gene Siskel adding it as "one of the best films of the year". In 1980, Hopkins played the Victorian surgeon who rescues a heavily disfigured man (John Hurt) in The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980). In 1981, he starred in the television film The Bunker (George Schaefer, 1981) portraying Adolf Hitler during weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the Battle of Berlin. Her won an Emmy Award for his role. Two good television literature adaptations followed: Othello (Jonathan Miller, 1981) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Michael Tuchner, Alan Hume, 1982). In both, he played the title role. In 1985, he received great acclaim and a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in the David Hare play 'Pravda'. In 1987, he was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire. That year, he starred opposite Anne Bancroft in 84 Charing Cross Road (David Hugh Jones, 1987), acclaimed by film critics. His last stage play was a West End production of 'M. Butterfly' in 1989.

In 1991, Anthony Hopkins co-starred with Jodie Foster in his most remarkable film, The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991). For his role as psychiatrist and serial killer Hannibal Lecter, he won the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Actor. He gave Lecter some improvisational touches such as the unnerving effect on Jodie Foster when he mocked her character's West Virginia accent; the distortion of the word 'chianti' and the vile slurping sound he makes after he describes eating the 'census-taker'. Hopkins also notes that Hannibal never blinked his eyes when he spoke, a characteristic Hopkins picked up from watching tapes of convicted murderer Charles Manson. Hopkins later reprised the role, returning to the iconic villain in adaptations of the first three of the Lecter novels by Thomas Harris. He chose to play Prof. Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Coppola, 1992) because he wanted to pick a role as far removed from Lecter as possible. In the 1990s, Hopkins acted in other films like Desperate Hours (Michael Cimino, 1990) with Mickey Rourke, Howards End (James Ivory, 1992) with Emma Thompson, and Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick, 1994) with Brad Pitt. In 1993, he was knighted. He was again an Oscar nominee for The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993), Nixon (Oliver Stone, 1995) and Steven Spielber's Amistad (1997) starring Djimon Hounsou. He also starred in Surviving Picasso (James Ivory, 1996), The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell, 1998) starring Antonio Banderas, Meet Joe Black (Martin Brest, 1998) and Instinct (Jon Turteltaub, 1999). Hopkins was Britain's highest-paid performer in 1998. In 2000, he became a U.S. citizen but was allowed to retain his British knighthood and the title of Sir. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He appeared as Odin, the Allfather or 'king' of Asgard, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Thor franchise (Kenneth Branagh, 2011–2017) starring Chris Hemsworth. Hopkins portrayed Alfred Hitchcock in Sacha Gervasi's biopic Hitchcock (2012) alongside Helen Mirren who played Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville. The film focuses on the film of Psycho and that which followed. Notable TV projects include The Dresser (Richard Eyre, 2015) with Ian McKellen, King Lear (Richard Eyre, 2018), and the series Westworld (2016–2018). He was again nominated for an Oscar for The Two Popes (2019). He became the oldest person to win an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role when he won for his performance as an octogenarian with dementia in The Father (Florian Zeller, 2020) with Olivia Colman. Hopkins was 83 years old at the time of the ceremony. Two years later, he appeared with Hugh Jackman in Zeller's The Son (Florian Zeller, 2022). A year later he starred as Sigmund Freud in Freud's Last Session (Matt Brown, 2023) and as Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, who as a young London broke rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in One Life (James Hawes, 2023)... Anthony Hopkins married three times, to Petronella Barker (1967-1972), Jennifer Lynton (1973-2002) and Stella Hopkins (2003-present). With Barker, he has a daughter, Abigail Hopkins.

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The next club comp is Still Life and so last night some of us had a practice. Not a bad effort I thought but could be better. Ive got two weeks to get it right.

The view towards the new McIver Railway Station looking towards Claisebrook from the Moore Street level crossing on 24 July 1988. Photo: Phil Melling.

A very nice find in Turner's coach park, before it was rapidly surrounded by other reversing vehicles, was this Rennie's Bedford YMT with a Van Hool McArdle 'flat-pack' body, assembled by Silverdale Coaches in Dublin following the closure of the VHM factory. One of only 6 built (or completed from a shell) by Silverdale, its original operator had been Grufferty of Horden, near Peterlee. It had moved about a bit since then, and it was about halfway through a one-year stay with Rennie's, before fleeing to the Shetlands for a few years. It arrived here from Blair & Palmer at Carlisle, as indeed did the coach behind it, Tiger / Duple SRM 700X.

Turner's coach park, Blackpool, 5/10/85

Track works looking towards Moore Street to create 4 tracks instead of three towards Perth Railway Station on 24 July 1988. Photo: Phil Melling.

01 Intro/Jokes
02 Hashish
03 Hypnogram
04 Siren
05 Cantaloupe
06 Aphrodite
07 Band Intro
08 Temptation Inside Your Heart
09 Encore Break
10 Locomotoives

I found Wing's depot, but the vehicle I was looking for was inside the shed, along with several other coaches - more on that one another time ! So I had to make do with just this pair of Bedfords, of which there were still five in use. The YRQ on the right was the longest-lasting, having been bought new in 1972, and just completed 20 years here. Most surprisingly, it would be re-registered with dateless plate OIB 9392 the following year, and would stay in service until 1999.

The YRT to its left was another refugee from the Moore's fleet in 1990, and the only one to join Wing's. It didn't quite see out another year here, and was then kept back for spares.

Depot, Sleaford, 2/5/92

Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE
Australia
Results: SP 11 - FS 8 / Total: 182.71 - 10th

Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE
Australia
Results: SP 11 - FS 8 / Total: 182.71 - 10th

Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE
Australia
Results: SP 11 - FS 8 / Total: 182.71 - 10th