Kentucky Color: Miss Sassy
2021-10-02 - Taylor Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge
By Billy Joe Fudge
Go to the Homeplace Trailhead of the Tebbs Bend Nature and Recreation Area, take the Beaver Pond Loop and you will find this beautiful old lady, we call "Miss Sassy". Miss Sassy is a Sassafras tree that has been proudly standing on the edge of a steep hillside overlooking Green River for hundreds of years. No doubt she watched every minute of the Battle of Tebbs Bend on July 4, 1863 and noted the passing of the Longhunters and maybe even Daniel Boone as early as the 1760's.
Miss Sassy told me she loves to entertain visitors, have them touch her bark and smell that wonderful aroma of Root Beer emanating from her soul. She loves to have her picture taken with the children and have them shared on Columbia Magazine and social media.
Note: Root Beer was indeed flavored by Sassafras Roots originally and when you're maybe 400 years old, everyone is a child! Comments | Permalink
2021-10-02 - Taylor Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge
By Billy Joe Fudge
Go to the Homeplace Trailhead of the Tebbs Bend Nature and Recreation Area, take the Beaver Pond Loop and you will find this beautiful old lady, we call "Miss Sassy". Miss Sassy is a Sassafras tree that has been proudly standing on the edge of a steep hillside overlooking Green River for hundreds of years. No doubt she watched every minute of the Battle of Tebbs Bend on July 4, 1863 and noted the passing of the Longhunters and maybe even Daniel Boone as early as the 1760's.
Miss Sassy told me she loves to entertain visitors, have them touch her bark and smell that wonderful aroma of Root Beer emanating from her soul. She loves to have her picture taken with the children and have them shared on Columbia Magazine and social media.
Note: Root Beer was indeed flavored by Sassafras Roots originally and when you're maybe 400 years old, everyone is a child! Comments | Permalink
Undesirables
2021-10-02 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Both the Poke plant and the visiting Stink Bug on one of its berries are undesirable, but they are everywhere this fall. Comments | Permalink
2021-10-02 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Both the Poke plant and the visiting Stink Bug on one of its berries are undesirable, but they are everywhere this fall. Comments | Permalink
CU Alumni leaders hold planning meeting
2021-10-01 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Gerard Flanagan, CU Communications
Campbellsville University’s Alumni Board met Sept. 28, 2021 in the Chowning Executive Dining Room of the Winters Dining Hall on campus to make plans for the year. From left are: Front row – Glenna Bacon (’85) of Glasgow, Ky.; and Debby Hazelip Duda (’82) of Elizabethtown, Ky. Back row – Ashley Fox, director of alumni relations (M ’17), B.J. Senior (’68) of La Grange, Ky.; Fred Stein (’74) of Campbellsville, Ky.; David Hayes (’70) of Campbellsville, Ky.; and Herman Hardesty (’58) of Lexington, Ky. Comments | Permalink
2021-10-01 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Gerard Flanagan, CU Communications
Campbellsville University’s Alumni Board met Sept. 28, 2021 in the Chowning Executive Dining Room of the Winters Dining Hall on campus to make plans for the year. From left are: Front row – Glenna Bacon (’85) of Glasgow, Ky.; and Debby Hazelip Duda (’82) of Elizabethtown, Ky. Back row – Ashley Fox, director of alumni relations (M ’17), B.J. Senior (’68) of La Grange, Ky.; Fred Stein (’74) of Campbellsville, Ky.; David Hayes (’70) of Campbellsville, Ky.; and Herman Hardesty (’58) of Lexington, Ky. Comments | Permalink
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