Adair Tree scions are now part of multi-year research project 2022-05-28 - Penn State University - Photo courtesy Sara Fitzsimmons. Ricky Parnell, Jackie Goodin, Kenny Pyles, and Billy Joe Fudge collected scions from The Adair Tree to overnight to Penn State University. 6 of 10 of The Adair Tree scions are growing in the University greenhouse, part of a multi-year effort to run RNA Sequencing to understand how this special tree has survived the blight that killed nearly all the American Chestnut trees. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Sara Fitzsimmons of Penn State University 2022-05-28 - Penn State - Photo courtesy Billy Joe Fudge. Sara Fitzsimmons at Penn State University is heading a multi-year project to clone and RNA Sequence grafts from The Adair Tree and other long term surviving Wild American Chestnut trees, to better understand the underlying mechanisms of blight-resistance in these unique trees. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Kentucky Color: The Adair Tree 2022-05-28 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. This old American chestnut tree growing on Charles England's farm in the Bull Run watershed of Adair County gained fame in the 1990s because of its very rare genetic resistance to the blight that killed billions of American chestnut trees across our eastern hardwood forest in the early 20th Century. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Barn Lot Theater presents Duck Hunter Shoots Angel 2022-05-28 - Edmonton, KY - Photo courtesy Barn Lot Theater. Kyle Hadley as Sandy and Jessie Varner as Lenny in Bar Lot Theater's upcoming production of Duck Hunter Shoots Angel Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Where are we picture guessed correctly 2022-05-27 - South Central Kentucky - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The recent 'Where are we?' photo was guessed quickly. Among the responses we got, two were exactly on the mark. Both Dee Albertson and Chad Price knew the road that winds through the Prices Creek area on the Metcalfe County and Adair County line. In this picture we were heading east, about to go under the LBN Cumberland Parkway, on the East Fork Road that leads into Prices Creek Road. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

COVID-19 Update - levels of virus rising in some areas 2022-05-27 - South Central Kentucky - Photo by Sam Price - Lake Cumberland District Health Department . Here is the CDC Community Levels by County map and guidance as of 5-27-2022. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

At the Memorial Service 2022-05-27 - Columbia, KY . Six year old Keller LaBarge listened as his Dad Aaron led the prayer at the Memorial Day Celebration at City Hall on Friday, May 27, 2022. Veterans were honored here, and will also be honored at the traditional Sunday VFW ceremony. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

If you have photos you'd like to share with ColumbiaMagazine readers, please email .jpg files to photos@columbiamagazine.com. Please include your name, an email address or phone number, the date the photo was taken, and the location and names of anyone in the photos.

Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728.
Phone: 270.403.0017