Norma Jean Downey Blair at 1967 Lindsey Homecoming
2026-11-03 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson University
A page from the 1968 Lindsey Wilson Pine Cone yearbook of the 1967 Lindsey Wilson Homecoming parade, which included Norma Jean Downey Blair '68, left, riding on the Student National Educators Association's winning float.
Blair is wearing a dress made by her mother, Doris Kessler Downey. The dress is on exhibit in a display case in the Lindsey Wilson University W.W. Slider Humanities Center lobby.
A reception for the Lindsey Wilson Alumni Art Show will be held next to the display case from 4:30pmCT to 6:30pmCT on Thursday, November 5, 2026, in the Lucretia C. Begley Art Gallery. Comments | Permalink
2026-11-03 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson University
A page from the 1968 Lindsey Wilson Pine Cone yearbook of the 1967 Lindsey Wilson Homecoming parade, which included Norma Jean Downey Blair '68, left, riding on the Student National Educators Association's winning float.
Blair is wearing a dress made by her mother, Doris Kessler Downey. The dress is on exhibit in a display case in the Lindsey Wilson University W.W. Slider Humanities Center lobby.
A reception for the Lindsey Wilson Alumni Art Show will be held next to the display case from 4:30pmCT to 6:30pmCT on Thursday, November 5, 2026, in the Lucretia C. Begley Art Gallery. Comments | Permalink
Dress celebrates the threads that connect LWU alumni
2026-11-03 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson University
A patriotic red-white-and-blue dress created by the late Adair County resident Doris Kessler Downey for her daughter, Norma Jean Downey Blair '68, is on exhibit in a display case in the Lindsey Wilson University W.W. Slider Humanities Center lobby. Blair represented the Student National Educators Association in the 1967 Lindsey Wilson Homecoming parade, which had the winning float. A reception for the Lindsey Wilson Alumni Art Show will be held next to the display case from 4:30pmCT to 6:30pmCT on Thursday, November 5, 2026, in the Lucretia C. Begley Art Gallery. Comments | Permalink
2026-11-03 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson University
A patriotic red-white-and-blue dress created by the late Adair County resident Doris Kessler Downey for her daughter, Norma Jean Downey Blair '68, is on exhibit in a display case in the Lindsey Wilson University W.W. Slider Humanities Center lobby. Blair represented the Student National Educators Association in the 1967 Lindsey Wilson Homecoming parade, which had the winning float. A reception for the Lindsey Wilson Alumni Art Show will be held next to the display case from 4:30pmCT to 6:30pmCT on Thursday, November 5, 2026, in the Lucretia C. Begley Art Gallery. Comments | Permalink
Scenic Russell County, KY - Spider Plants
2026-11-03 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Many call these Spider Plants but I like the name my niece Mitzi McKinley Bault shared, Grandpa's Whiskers. Whatever they are, this fine garden sparkled in the sunshine. Comments | Permalink
2026-11-03 - Russell County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Many call these Spider Plants but I like the name my niece Mitzi McKinley Bault shared, Grandpa's Whiskers. Whatever they are, this fine garden sparkled in the sunshine. Comments | Permalink
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