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Snowy winter says Jan's persimmon seed test

2021-10-10 - Metcalfe County, KY - Photo from family collection

Jan Sandidge writes:
I remember my great aunt, Geniece Marcum, explaining in a video or an article about how a persimmon seed predicts the winter. Since then I’ve always wanted to try it. This summer I discovered a persimmon tree on my property and was able to try it! Looks like we will be shoveling snow this winter!
Re: Persimmon seed kernel predicts heavy snows
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Find your family's historic community

2021-10-10 - Adair County, KY - Photo from Adair Genealogy collection
Can you find your family's original community connection(s) among all the historic ones drawn on this map of Adair County? My mom's mother's Turner family came from Virginia to settle on Burns Creek in the southern Adair County community of Inroad. - Linda Waggener
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Campbell, Scheyer, and Williams present research projects

2021-10-10 - Taylor County, KY - Photo from Campbellsville University communications
Conner Campbell, a 2020 CU graduate; Matthew Scheyer, a CU senior from Knifley; and Patrick Logan Williams, a CU junior form Columbia; were among students from this area who presented their projects at the Summer Undergraduate Research meeting at the Natural Science Division of Campbellsville University recently.
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