OUR TALENTED

OUR FAMILY CONTAINS MANY SMART AND TALENTED FOLK.

WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT TO YOU

Introducing  Jamie M. Hopkins, USN

Jamie received her Captain's pin aboard the USS Comstock.

CONGRATULATIONS JAMIE!!!

Your Mom Beth Fister Hopkins Marchand and ALL of us are VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!!!

For more on the story click on the USS Comstock seal: 

Tim T. Fister Earns prestigious Henderson Prize from University of Washington

click on the photons for the story

Cousin Joe M. Fister (Fred's branch) Winner of  The Standard Club Shootout on Monday, July 9th

(Joe is on the left)

Gayle Fister, a longtime volunteer at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital,

will deliver more than 100 holiday tray favors to patients on Christmas Eve.

Photo by Joseph Rey Au   from articleby Robin Roenker,  published Dec. 12, 2007 at lexington.com and Lexington Herald-Leader

click on photo for more info

click on photo for full story

ALLISONFISTER

and her winning Boer goats -- click on her photo for the full story

UK Alumni Hall of Fame

Marian Fister Fish Guinn

click on Marian's photo for the story

  visit their website:    www.burkefurniture.com/   

In honor of the late Harry Caudill, Al Fritsch and Kristen Johannsen were awarded the 2005 Caudill Prize for their book Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains. The Caudill Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to reporting Appalachian life and values. 

click on Father Al's book to read a 2004 interview of him.

CHECK OUT Father Al's web site:        www.earthhealing.info

It would be hard to live in Kentucky and not raise horses.

Click on Vincent Fister's Artful Ebony Oh yeah, Vincent moved to Ohio.

Then again, many of us have moved from Kentucky.

Where do you think Vincent learned about moving?

Click on this picture to learn about Vincent Fister, Inc.

Most of us know that our ancestors were farmers.   Our patriarch, John N. Fister and his first wife, Anna Grosser, started  with truck gardening.  At the time of Anna's death in 1902, the Lexington Morning Herald reported that they were among the largest land owners in Fayette County, Kentucky.

Here are two of the well known farms:

   Bi-Water Farm & Greenhouse

  click on photo           the farm of the late Carl Anthony Fister and his wife, Bertha

Did we say farm ??  

This one has so many attractions, you could say amusement park.

From Piggies to Veggies

According to Fister family lore, their Double Stink Hog Farm in Scott County was named by a young son, disgruntled at having to clean out a second hog barn in one day, who proclaimed, “This place doesn’t just stink; it double stinks!” Back then (in the 1980s), hundreds of hogs could indeed be found at the farm.

Since then, though, the focus of operations—not to mention the aroma—has changed considerably. Double Stink now concentrates on produce: A venture to sell off a few surplus pumpkins from the porch, using a hand-lettered sign and an honor system for payment, has evolved into an elaborate annual “pick-your-own” festival, complete with exhibitors and even a petting zoo for the kids. And the success of Pumpkinfest (weekends in October) has encouraged other ventures, from a spring festival celebrating horse-powered planting to sales of sweet corn, tomatoes, flowers, and nursery stock.

The farm is located in Scott County, near Georgetown, at the intersection of U.S. 460 and KY 922.

For more information: Double Stink Hog Farm, (502) 868-9703

Producer/videographer: David Brinkley
Editor: Esther Reed

excerpt taken from     http://www.ket.org/kentuckylife/100s/kylife106.html

WE ARE

 ARTISTS

 AUTHORS--Barbara Fister, Tim's wife

BUSINESSES

COMPOSERS

DANCERS

ATHLETES -- what about Sean Fister, Golfer (is he related?)

ENTREPRENEURS

MINISTERS

MUSICIANS -- anyone know Steve Fister, Guitarist (is he related?)

WE ARE OUTSTANDING!

to tell us about the talent in your family

(or email us at:  suefister@tampabay.rr.com)