Adair Garden Club floral triumph: Yellow carnations amid petunias at TRH 2017-08-27 - Trabue-Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Feelings of rejection or sadness are attributed to a gift of yellow carnations, but why? These bright faces amid the petunias at the Trabue-Russell House should please anyone who gets a chance to see them in the floral gardens at TRH. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Garden Club floral triumph at TRH: Petunias 2017-08-27 - Trabue-Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Garden Club floral triumph: Zinnias at Trabue-Russell House 2017-08-27 - Trabue-Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Bold orange Zinnias reflect the setting sun among the many beautiful flower garden blossoms at the TRH. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Garden Club floral triumph at Trabue Russell House 2017-08-27 - Trabue-Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Aptly named for its lovely smell, the Sweet Autumn Clematis flowering vine has a formal name of Clematis Paniculata. It grows naturally along the iron fence at the Trabue Russell House. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Aerial view of Historic Adair Courthouse without a drone 2017-08-27 - From Trabue-Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, to Historic Adair Courthouse, 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY . The meticulously maintained - by the Adair County Garden Club - late summer/fall flowers at the Trabue-Russell House were the main attraction at the site on a perfect August 26, 2017, but it's also a year round scenic overlook for a wonderful view of the historic Adair County Courthouse. From this perspective, it appears to back up to solid woodland - at least in the Pooh Bear concept. The mission, assigned by Mary Knight, was to see the work of the Adair County Garden Club, Trabue House battalion's care of the gardens and grounds, which we awarded Five Wows! on a Five Wow scale, recommending a visit today while the best ever weather continues. - LW/EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Historian Mike Watson: Poke Berries in Urban Setting 2017-08-27 - Harrodsburg or Columbia, KY - Photo by Mike Watson, Adair County Historian. Mike Watson sends these photos of Poke Berries growing in the city, which we're posting in hopes some entrepreneur will be inspired to start a Great American Poke Berry Ink factory - Maybe not in time for this years Homeplace on Green River or Re-visit Knifley events, but maybe next year. Most Appalachians think of Poke as a greens delicacy (though a warning: precise 'biling' protocols are essential to keep from being pizened. It's said to be toxic in it's raw state), but in keeping with a notion inspired by an NPR Driveway Moment piece kelp farm is made profitable by using and selling every part of it in someway, Scientists Hope To Farm The Biofuel Of The Future In The Pacific Ocean about successful cultivation and use of kelp, first as food, then for all its other uses. And then by remembering the work of a local thinker, Larry Legg who imagined the possibilities for selling sawdust and created a major industry in South Central Kentucky for a byproduct of the timber business. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Favorite Old Postcard: 1940s - 824 S 4th Street, Louisville, KY 2017-08-27 - 824 S Fourth Street, Louisville, KY - Photo from the collection of Ralph Roy Waggener. Ralph Roy Waggener found this favorite old postcard from World War II days. Today, according to the Wikipedia Spalding University entry, the building has been a part of Spalding University since 1963, and is called Spalding University Center, and many may remember it as Columbia Auditorium, famed for lectures and presentations such as Burton Holmes Travelogues. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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