Judy Prather:  

Wow, I have been very fortunate to have had a very exciting life! After college I moved to Milan, Italy and worked as a fashion designer apprentice. Married an Italian who was a fashion design photographer¿s assistant. We had two wonderful daughters who now live in Lexington and one has two children and the other just married. After that husband I married a Doctor who took me on a whirlwind around the country, living in Wisconsin, Utah, California, Texas and back to Kentucky. During this time I had the opportunity to go to The American Film Institute Graduate School in Los Angeles. I was able to do student movies and work on movies with famous people, like Keanu Reeves and Robert Urich. My teacher was the Production Designer for Hitchcock! A great experience. After settling in KY and attempting to do films and not much happening in that area in Lexington, so I tried doing a little more graduate work in studio art/art history at UK. I painted a lot and exhibited my paintings, even sold some! I had the opportunity to get into travel consulting and it was fun because of all the traveling I had done. I also bought an old house in the historic South Hill Neighborhood and restored it. My contractor was this nice guy, Tom McDowell. My Doctor husband took up his family¿s drinking curse and we divorced. Lucky for me, my wonderful restoration guy divorced around the same time but he had taken a job in Washington, DC. Fate would have it that I called him to fix something at the house and he was in Lexington seeing his daughter. We met and the rest, as people say, is histor...Expand for more