Casey, Russell SCC Upward Bound students in NYC 2017-08-24 - New York City - Photo Somerset Community College photo. 2016-2017 SCC Upward Bound students in New York City. Front row, from left: Morgan Mercer (Casey). Second row: Lacey Elliott (Casey); Emily Frazier (Casey); Astralla Godbey (Casey); Makayla Cravens (Casey); Pacey Aaron (Russell). Third row: Devon McFee (Russell); Elizabeth Frazier (Casey); Haley Whittle (Russell); Courtney Farris (Russell); Payton Pearson (Russell); Austin Sullivan (Russell); Deanna Curvin (Russell). Fourth row: Destiny Grider (Russell); Taylor Beicher (Russell); Ashley Stargle (Casey); Makaleigh Hornback (Russell); Lillie Stephens (Russell); Evan Bray (Russell); Stephanie Likins, Director. Fifth row, Eric Angel (Russell); Emily Newton (Casey); Shyanne Clark (Russell); Pheleisha Leedom (Casey); Madison Zaborowsky (Casey); Brittany Emerson, Administrative Assistant. Sixth row: Melanie Jones, Volunteer Staff; Kassidy Johnson (Russell); Elizabeth Smith (Russell); Brianna Franklin (Russell); Christy Antle, Staff, Seventh row: Matthew Savage, Staff; Keila Sullivan, Education Specialist; Shanna Ragle, Staff; Leslie Brown, Staff. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Favorite Old Photo: The Bar-X-Boys, 1938, Columbia, KY 2017-08-24 - Columbia, KY - Photo from the collection of Bobby Ferguson. Bobby Ferguson shares this favorite old photo of David Akeman, who went on to star as "Stringbean" on the Grand Ol' Opry in a guest appearance with the Bar-X Boys - Gordon Kelsay, Casey Jones, Columbia jeweler and a National Fiddle Champion, Hollis Keltner, later Mayor of Columiba, and Clyde Royse. There's a fascinating bio at David "Stringbean" Akeman, which gives details of his life, his success as a baseball player and singer/comic, and his murder, discovered by neighbor, Grandpa Jones. See the related Story Jim: David Akeman - Stringbean - a Bar X Boy 1939 Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Work underway, new traffic lights, Campbellsville Street 2017-08-24 - Intersection, Campbellsvillle Street & Merchant/Reed Streets, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Due to a reader imperative, very early this morning, we're posting this picture, taken Wednesday, August 23, 2017, of construction work started to install new traffic lights at the busy crossing. The constractor is Thomas Construction of Richmond, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Life in the Holler - Topside: The perfect end to a perfect day 2017-08-24 - Topside - The Holler, Old Clear Springs Road, Ozark, Adair County, KY - Photo by Shamarie Harper. Poet-Philosopher-Photo artist Shamarie Harper sends this photo of the Moon at Dusk, two days after the Eclipse, with the notation "Sometimes, it is just a perfect end, to a perfect day." and adds, "Yes, it is straight from the camera :). Clicking Read More accesses accompanying essay, Lesson from the Eclipse Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Best Buddies - Gene & Jakky 2017-08-24 - Adair County Judicial Center, 201 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Jakky is not Gene Hoots dog, but you'd never know it from this photo. Perhaps the town's most famous long-haired Dachshund, Jakky (pronounced "Jakey," but a friend wrote it "Jakky" and the spelling was honored), Jakky is the pet of Columbia City Council Member, former Mayor, and print and broadcast journalist Pam Hoots. Yes, Gene Hoots is still Adair County's leading town gardener; and yes, he does still have tomatoes for sale at his home on Tutt Street, and yes, he is a quite active octagenarian, whose legend, already established, gains new entries with each passing day. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A view from the Silent City - Columbia Cemetery 2017-08-24 - 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. From the Silent City, the Columbia City Cemetery, to a Shining City on a Hill, in this view from Oak and Campbellsville Street, is a view of another area which might have been called "New Columbia," if Danny Pyles hadn't preempted the name for the huge commercial area around Holladay Place on the south side of town. Quite deliberately, and over many decades the stretch from the end of Campbellsville Street across, in the middle, or on the other side of the Russell Creek Bridge in the lower left of center in the photo, and the start of Campbellsville Road, a whole new modern shopping area has evolved, with a bowling center, medical centers, a huge farm supply center and essential offices for agriculture, destination restaurants, banking facilities, and much, much more. The view is worthy of a reverential visit to put growing town into perspective, even without a drone overflight. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

At the corner of Flowers & Flowers in the Silent City 2017-08-24 - Columbia Cemetery, 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This vantage point in the Columbia Cemetery is one used often by photographers for ColumbiaMagazine.com. But for the first time, we noticed a capsulized book in the history of one great family in Adair County, a solid lineup along the roadway with "Flowers" engraved on the back of the tablets; and perhaps 15 minutes later, discovered that the markers continue to the left. A historian would be able to see the information as just the most obvious information and know that the information would need encyclopedic volumes to tell the stories of one of the greatest teachers ever in Adair County, more than one military hero, a Columbia mayor whose progressive term changed the city dramatically for the good, a woman whose name is synonymous with "genealogy" and "history," leaders of agriculture and more. - EW. Photo Wed 23 Aug 2017. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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