Louis S. DeLuca

Author Bio

 

Editor Lou DeLuca is retired from a long and varied career in public service. He worked as a city planner in New Haven, CT, taught at the Yale School of Art and Architecture and the University of Kentucky College of Design, worked as a reporter and feature writer for The Anderson News, served as Director of the Kentucky Arts Council, and as Acting Secretary and Deputy Secretary of the Education, Arts and Humanities Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In retirement he hand weaves rugs and continues public service as a volunteer, most recently as a board member for the Berea Urban Farm.

In mid-life he bought an abandoned 140-acre farm with ruins of an 1850s log homestead in Avenstoke, KY, and built a geodesic dome. It was during that construction that he met Herbert Lee Clark, who built the dome’s large chimney using stones from the homestead’s collapsed chimneys. Talking with Herbert Lee, Lou learned of his remarkable journals and agreed to prepare them for publication.

Lou now lives in Berea, Kentucky, with his wife Victoria Faoro.

Books:

Old-Time Kentucky Farmsteading Ways and Means
Price: $19.95

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