Poke Sallet Days are here early this year: March 27, 2012 2012-03-27 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Good eating days are here. Young tender sprouts of poke has arrived early this year. Not enough for a whole mess yet in this one-stalk patch, but it's the start of the makings of one of the best meals of the year: Poke, Cornbread, Green Onions, Coleslaw, and Catfish. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Old Jericho, Adair Co., KY: Jericho Schoolyard, Jim Riall Store 2012-03-27 - Photo by George Rice. George Rice found this rare photograph, taken, he believes with his Argus 620 camera. The year, he believes, was 1950, the year the Taylor County RECC brought electric to Jericho. He can't identify the four boys pitching horseshoes, but the location is the south part of the Jericho School/Charity Baptist Church campus. It was all one unit then. gravel road today is Holmes Bend Road, and across the road, the white building, is Riall's Store, operated by the late Jim and Eva Riall. It served as the shopping mall for Jericho, and housed the United States Post Office at Holmes, KY, Jim Riall, Postmaster. The grazing cows are in the Hyler Bault field, the homeplace of their son, Horace Bault. George Rice hopes that someone will recognize the athletes. The road to the right was the Mt. Carmel Road, which followed roughly the path of Corbin's Bend Road, along the Jericho Cliffs. At the end of the bluff, the road forked: The left prong went to Kelleyville, and the right to Mt. Carmel School and on down to the Rufus Dulworth and Mont Corbin Farms, with season fords across Green River. George Rice says surely someone from the era will remember the names of the athletes, above. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Breeding Firemen at Sparksville Explosives Truck accident 2012-03-27 - Sparksville, KY. - Photo by Ed Waggener. Eleven members of the Breeding Area Volunteer Fire Department were at the scene in Sparksville this morning, including, above Chief Terry Harvey, and Chris Taylor, Kyle Cundiff, Tony Harvey, Alex (FARVA) Burkett, Training Officer Brandon Harvey, and Jonathon Beams. Others present but not pictured were Janie Potts, Joe Smith, Brenda Harvey, Timothy Jennings, and Jonathan Burris. The department, soon to have a regional training center, brought three trucks to the scene. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Officer Josh Brockman, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement 2012-03-27 - Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. CVE Officer Josh Brockman, was the first on the scene after explosives laden truck overturned this morning in Sparksville, KY. The popular former Columbia Police Department officer still lives in Columbia, KY. His territory for the CVE is Region 2, which includes the Kentucky State Police counties served by Post 3, Elizabethtown; KSP Post 4, Bowling Green; and KSP Post 15, Columbia, KY. Officer Brockman lauded the driver of the truck, Robert Cox, Bardstown, KY, for refusing to leave the scene for treatment until after he had given all the necessary information needed to stabilize the situation. Cox drives for Austin Powder Company of Willisburg, KY. The truck was on its way to Gaddie-Shamrock in Albany, KY, he said. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Truck overturned on KY 61 at Sparksville, KY 2012-03-27 - KY 61 near Bird Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Members of the Breeding Area Fire Department left are on standby at the scene in Sparksville where an overturned truck carrying explosives is requiring the closure of the road for most of the rest of the today. The accident occurred at around 6:45amCT, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Dozens of first responders are on hand. The situation appears to be headed to a methodical, orderly resolution, thanks to coordinated first response efforts from first response units. While officials think the outcome will have the least possible consequences, the situation remains cautious. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Gallery of Great Dogs: The noble Molly of The Holler 2012-03-27 - The Holler, Old Clearsprings Road, Ozark, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. Naturally, Molly is one of the most respected citizens of The Holler. Exercise and healthy living enthusiast Shamarie Claiborne snapped this portrait of the noble Molly, forgoing her more active pleasures to patiently guard Shamarie's moves as she strolled through a pasture in the meadow. The beautiful Golden Retriever, officially Dusty's Dog and now in her young adulthood, has many and varied intellectual interests. "If you could just get into her mind, you would understand her breadth of thought," Shamarie says. "She'd be saying, 'Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball!'" If unthinking people-ilk fail this polite, patient request, Molly will dig a big rock, carry it to the nearest person, and hand it over with authoritative instructions to play her own National Sport of The Holler: Throw and Retrieve, Throw and Retrieve. A game at which she's a true Olympian. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Meatball sub from Pompilios's 2012-03-26 - Newport, KY - Photo by Pen. Evan's lunch:: A meatball sub and fries at Pompilios's in Newport, KY. Declared awesome. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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