Great Institution of Learning: Egypt School, Adair County, KY 2018-03-31 - Seen from Egypt Christian Church, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Few classrooms in the world have produced more first rate scholars and successes than Egypt School, still shining bright in the evening sun as if basking in pride in its scholars who attended the eight grades there. As county schools were consolidated in the 1950's kids from here and Egypt's sister school at Jericho stood out, and came to be known as "Green River Kids" - teachers in town expected them to stand out, and they did. Back in the the schools' day, there was no broadband, no Chromebooks or iPads, no cell phones, no cafeteria, and most of the students walked to school, and were expected to take care of custodial duties themselves. There were of course, separate on-campus hygiene centers and installations for drawing clean, potable water. HVAC was provided by renewable energy sources, and people-powered, mortuary-provided cooling systems. Pining for the old days ignores the wondrous stories which would have been archived today had modern spying techniques been in place when the school was alive with students. What a book that would have made! - EW/LW Comments, additional information Ben ArnoldEgypt School outranks even Centre College, Harvard Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Russell County: Looking from Old 127, over New U.S. 127 2018-03-31 - From Old U.S. 127, N of Sewellton, Russell County, KY . A mystery to us: the hills in the background were brought into a clear outline with using a telescopic lens, from old U.S. 127 North of Sewellton, looking east across the construction for the new U.S. 127. Are they hills in Clinton County? And we wondered their names. Thanks for any details. - EW. Photo March 27, 2018. Comments Billy Joe Fudge - Names Mountains seen above from U.S. 127, Russell County, KY Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Brody Sidebottom creates art to make someone smile 2018-03-31 - Campbellsville Elementary School, 315 Roberts Road, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. Brody Sidebottom, a second grade student at Campbellsville Elementary, colors a drawing he created to make someone smile. He's a student of Art Teacher Adrianne Hash. - Calen McKinney Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Katelyn Vest colors drawing to make someone smile 2018-03-31 - Campbellsville Elementary School, 315 Roberts Road, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. Campbellsville Elementary second-grader Katelynn Vest colors a drawing she created to make someone smile. She's a student in Adrienne Hash's art class at Campbellsville Elementary School. - Calen McKinney Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Showing love through art: Asia Singleton's art 2018-03-31 - Campbellsville Elementary School, 315 Roberts Road, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer, Campbellsville Independent Schools. Campbellsville Elementary School students are learning about showing love through their artwork. In Adrienne Hash's art class, students recently listened to the book "Willow" by Denise Brennan-Nelson. - Above CES second-grader Asia Singleton colors a drawing she created to make someone smile. - Calen McKinney Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Barbara Gayle Hagan Newman, Green Co., KY (1950-2018) 2018-03-31 - 206 S Main Street, Greensburg, KY - Photo from Cowherd & Parrott Funeral Home. Barbara Gayle Hagan Newman, Green Co., KY (1950-2018) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Coe House Mural, Burkesville, KY - II 2018-03-31 - Coe House, 433 N Main Street, Burkesville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The Legend and the mural illustration by Pat Ritter and Charlotte Cash, perhaps the most famous muralist in Kentucky, inspire visitors to imagine a history of a great community and a great family and to visit what remains one of the nation's best kept secrets, Burkesville & Cumberland County, KY. The inscription reads: Jessie & Lizzie Coe purchased the Princess Ann style house through the Sears Roebuck Co. Catalogue in 1908, the first year Sears provided pre-cut kit houses. The purchase of the unassembled home was delivered to Burkesville on the Cumberland River, through town, and was assembled by local builders John Williams and Albert Cary. Members of the Coe family owned this house for it's first 54 years. It gained National Registry and KY Landmark Status in 2009. The Coe family has a connection to the family immortalized in Lynwood Montell's book, 'Saga of Coe Ridge.' Jessie's father owned a large antebellum farm after emancipation, the formerly enslaved blacks took the family's name and established a colony in the Kettle area in the southern part of the County. Included here are scenes from Burkesville/Cumberland County's history, including the town flooding before the Wolf Creek Dam was built, the first electric company, whittlers on the courthouse benches, the Coe Plantation, a church potluck gathering on the town square circa 1920s, the free ferry before bridges were built, and the construction of the road over the Big Hill.' Paired photo - New Burkesville Art: Mural at the Coe House - I Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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