Cattails in a marshy ditch
2020-10-16 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Cattails emerge every year, seems like for infinity. They look sleek like this brown velvet one until time for them to turn into puff balls. Comments | Permalink
2020-10-16 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Cattails emerge every year, seems like for infinity. They look sleek like this brown velvet one until time for them to turn into puff balls. Comments | Permalink
Happy 97th Birthday!
2020-10-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo from the family
Bro. Raymond Martin is in the spotlight today - son J.J. says, "Happy 97th Birthday to our favorite Veteran - Your family loves you!" Comments | Permalink
2020-10-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo from the family
Bro. Raymond Martin is in the spotlight today - son J.J. says, "Happy 97th Birthday to our favorite Veteran - Your family loves you!" Comments | Permalink
Cooking down the molasses
2020-10-16 - Green County, KY - Photo by Phillip Coffey
Dennis Whitlock, at left, and his son Adam Whitlock are pictured "cooking down" the molasses on a recent hot October day. Phillip Coffey's poem was inspired here, "...The smell of the brewing has cut off my stewing..." as he helped out. The juices that arrive from the mill, thanks to gravity, go into the vat on the right. The sugar cane juice flows through various cooking trays, getting skimmed as each is heated. Each step is cooked on down and thickened. When it gets to the last vat, beside the chimney at left, Dennis decides when the molasses are perfected and ready to pull the lever that will release them to the flow of the golden, thickened liquid into its bucket. Dennis said he learned this craft from his wife Stella Matney's father. Comments | Permalink
2020-10-16 - Green County, KY - Photo by Phillip Coffey
Dennis Whitlock, at left, and his son Adam Whitlock are pictured "cooking down" the molasses on a recent hot October day. Phillip Coffey's poem was inspired here, "...The smell of the brewing has cut off my stewing..." as he helped out. The juices that arrive from the mill, thanks to gravity, go into the vat on the right. The sugar cane juice flows through various cooking trays, getting skimmed as each is heated. Each step is cooked on down and thickened. When it gets to the last vat, beside the chimney at left, Dennis decides when the molasses are perfected and ready to pull the lever that will release them to the flow of the golden, thickened liquid into its bucket. Dennis said he learned this craft from his wife Stella Matney's father. Comments | Permalink
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