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HENRY TAYLOR
interest blossomed to encompass the platting of 18th century deeds onto maps of the county, which has revealed, among other things, the progress of the settlement of the area by its German and Quaker immigrants.
Does he find incongruity in his two interests, poetry and historical research? Not at all, answers Mr. ' Taylor. Both pursuits require the same attributes: patience and precision.
He speaks with a twinge of regret when he describes how the pressures of development are eroding the traditional lifestyle which he has enjoyed since childhood. Yet, he says he understands how a farmer, faced with declining income and skyrocketing expenses, finds it unrealistic to hold on to the family homestead solely for sentimental, reasons.
Mr. Taylor professes to be realistic about the inevitability of change in his beloved county. And, he adds, he will change too. He says that the pleasure of Ids diverse interests lies in "learning how to do things you didn’t know how to do.” That willingness to learn, to try new things, extends to his poetry as well.
“The Flying Change” is Mr. Taylor's third volume. His first, "The Horse Show at Midnight,” was published in 1966. He credits a leave of absence item his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia as the factor which enabled the book to be published before he earned Ms ‘'master’s degree.
“An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards,” his second work, was published in 1976.
In addition to Ms teaching at AU, Mr. Taylor has participated in a Poetry in the Schools program for grade school students in Loudoun bounty. “I kka going into a roofh full *, nnp y w-toyjjiBraftifc.i iiyti m
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