Life in the Holler: Mr. Green resetting plants setters missed 2013-06-17 - Topside, The Holler, Old Clearsprings Road, Ozark, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. Quick work of it - Mr. Green filling in tobacco plants his setters missed. My least favorite job but Mr. Green was making quick work of it! - Shamarie Claiborne Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Antioch Christian Church - floral display beside cemetery 2013-06-17 - Antioch Church Road, Liberty, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. By Divine Design this likely volunteer floral display of daylilies,and ladino clover is centered around a brightly blooming yucca, accented by a small amber wave of broom sedge (Pronounced sage in Sulphur Well and I guess all of Kentucky, grass. The arrangement is across Antioch Church Road, appropriately in bloom to add beauty to the back-in-time campus on which the 125 year old Antioch Christian Church and Antioch Cemetery is situated. Just behind the scene above - a few feet past what looks like endless woods - is a deep cut for the US 127 Roadway just north of the turn to Phil, KY in Southern Casey County. - Linda Waggener Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Life in the Holler: A thing of beauty 2013-06-17 - The Holler, Old Clearsprings Road, Ozark, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. The beauty of one single thing is sometimes overlooked and undervalued. I would challenge you to slow down and take a look around at what the Lord has made this day. It might just surprise you! - Shamarie Claiborne Snake next - Just so you'll know The next photo in the archives is of a pretty little snake hiding under a waterfall along Old Clearsprings Road. Skip over is you like. CM Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Life in the Holler: Hide and seek with darn snake 2013-06-17 - The Holler, Old Clearsprings RD, Columbia, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. A friendly game of hide and seek. . . Found him and wish I hadn’t! Just saying. . . Shamarie Claiborne Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Darlene Campbell painting mural at Pablo's Mexican Grill 2013-06-17 - 1764 Campbellsville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Another Darlene Campbell mural is being added to at Pablo's Mexican Grill in Columbia. Owner Antoinio Aquino has commissioned the Columbia artist to complete the work. Knifley artist Josh Tucker is assisting in the project. The scene she is outlining above will be a romantic one, a Mexican Romeo and Juliet scene, with a young lad wooing a beautiful girl. Existing Darlene Campbell mural art can be seen in TaP's in downtown Columbia, the former location for Pablo's. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Good Old Days: Hauling Fertilizer to Southern States 2013-06-17 - 105 N High Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Hershel Harmon, the Working Man's poet, worked with Trucker Jake Willis to bring fertilizer back to Columbia from Louisville when Bill McClendon, James Woody, and Shirley Glasgow were launching the Southern States dealership in Columbia. "We unloaded lots and lots of fertilizer, and stored it in this big warehouse behind me," Hershel said. Jake Willis was trucking then with a 2 ton truck, Harmon says, and he worked for Jake Willis. "He'd haul loads of cut timber into Louisville and bring a load of fertilizer back to Southern States here. It was a 1954 or 1955, Harmon says, "I was Jake Willis' right hand man. The trip up and down, twice, took a pretty long day, Harmon recalls. "We went up through Greensburg, Buffalo, Hodgenville, Elizabethtown, Ft. Knox, over Muldraugh Hill, and in past Benny's First & Last Stop, Kosmosdale, and Shively. Jake had pretty good truck. It'd climb Muldraugh in low stick, second gear, most of the time. After that it was pretty good sailing most of the way to Columbia. If it didn't pull good, Jake would talk pretty rough to it, Harmon remembers. Jake was really a Ford man, but somehow he ended up with that Chevy that J.C. Montgomery bought new. "We ate pretty good on the way," Harmon said. "We'd eat at Bill Goldsmith's Gulf Station and get a hot ham sandwich, or stop in Greensburg at Ennis' 24 hour restaurant for hamburgers and a soft drink, or the Kozy Korner in Greensburg for a plate lunch. Those were good days." Harmon recalls, of the couple of years he worked for Jake in those days. "i like Jake. He was a good man." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Favorite Old Photo: Friends to the End 2013-06-17 - Columbia, KY - Photo from the collection of Hershel Harmon. Friends to the End: Ruby Janes Furkins, Betty Turner Redmon, and Yvonne Keith Harmon, were about 10-11 years old when this photo was taken in 1955 near Ruby Janes Furkins' father's, Hansel Janes' place on KY 768/Weed-Sparksville Road. Betty Turner Redmon died a few years back. Yvonne Keith Harmon is the wife of Hershel Harmon of Columbia, KY. Ruby Janes Furkins is the wife Norman Furkins, they live near the Y at KY 768 and KY 1952 near Chance, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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