Don Dampier

Don Dampier debuted at age 68 with Finding the Fifties (2005), a celebration of small town, small schools Americana featuring his original hometown of Carlisle, Kentucky, and CHS ’55 “Musketeers” classmates. His currently featured work, published in 2017, is Basketball Beginnings in the Commonwealth of Kentucky 1900s-1950s. His other published books include Why Write a Book, The Quilter’s Quest: Muses of a Non-Quilting Husband of a Quilter, and Carlisle High School (1893-1963): Odyssey into the Twentieth Century. Don’s conversational “story telling” books are filled with history, culture, and humor, sometimes with a bit of whimsy, and all featuring true-to-life people, places, and times. He is a 1959 graduate of the University of Kentucky, a 15-year volunteer narrator for Kentucky Talking Books for the Blind, and a Frankfort Rotarian. He loves life outside Georgetown with his wife, Pat, of 64 years-to-date.

Basketball Beginnings in the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Basketball Beginnings in the Commonwealth of Kentucky features the six small-school teams of the Commonwealth’s capital of Frankfort/Franklin County (five now closed) serving as “point guards” to lead readers into exciting tournament play through the first half of the century, from the 1900s through the “Fabulous Fifties.”