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Sparksville Grade Center Fall Festival advertisement, ca 1963

2022-05-21 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Mike Watson
When Sparksville Grade Center was new, advertisement from the Adair County News, 23 October 1963.

Offering "High Class Entertainment And Fun For The Entire Family," the festival advertised "such entertainment as Silly Clowns, House Of Horrors, Womanless Wedding, Beauty Contest, Musicals, Fortune Telling, Side Shows"
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Tick was an unwelcome visitor this week

2022-05-21 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
I have a heavy heart for I'm responsible for the demise of this tick which wanted to reside on my person, and of a community of ants that just wanted to share the kitchen. I keep asking creatures like these to simply stay in their place - outside, way outside - and I promise I'll stay in mine - inside. Sometimes discussion works, other times not. - LW
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Travel: Fire Tower View of the Smoky Mountains

2022-05-11 - Waynesville, NC - Photo by Graham Waggener
The view from the Mount Sterling Fire Tower on the Benton MacKaye Trail just outside of Waynesville, NC. It's the highest-elevation fire tower east of the Mississippi River.
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