Meadow Hill Inn Placecard for Central Bus Lines kickoff dinner 2011-12-17 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Ann Curtis. Central Kentucky Bus Lines was a business venture started by my father, David Heskamp, sometime in the 1950s. Here's a photo I found on a place card that was used at a kick-off dinner held at Meadow Hill Inn. The words on the side of the bus read "Louisville-Greensburg-Columbia." I wish I could provide more details, but that's about all I remember. -ANN HESKAMP CURTIS Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Favorite old photo: Central Kentucky Buslines 2011-12-17 - 411 Fairground Street, Columbia, KY - Photo from Grissom-Martin Funeral Home collection. Columbia, KY, once had three busline services, and one of them, ca 1955, was a locally owned service, Central Kentucky Buslines, owned by David Heskamp and Noah Flatt, we believe. Mr. Flatt drove the bus on a route to Louisville through Greensburg, Hodgenville, Elizabethtown, and Ft. Knox, whereas the Greyhound twice daily service to Louisville went through Campbellsville, Lebanon, Springfield, and Bardstown into the City. The third line was the Fuqua bus line, which traveled an East-West path along Kentucky 80, and went from Somerset to Hopkinsville, using a airport limousine style Chevrolet. The photo above, given to Grissom-Martin Funeral Home by Effie Heskamp, is of a charter trip by the Columbia Masonic Lodge aboard the Central Kentucky Bus, above. We don't have the identities of all the Masons, but we like to have them. I can spot my father, the late E.P. Waggener, on the back row under the right side of the first passenger window. Perhaps someone can furnish the list of all of the Masons, (or corrections to my memory about the buslines) and send them to ColumbiaMagazine.com using any Contact/Submit button or the Comments button with the photo. Clicking Readmore accesses the story with identifications as sent to CM. -ED WAGGENER Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair author and his books at Knife Club 2011-12-17 - 501 Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Mr. and Mrs. David Williams, now of Glasgow, KY, were selling knives and books at the Adair County Knife Club on the first Tuesday in December. David, formerly of Columbia, KY, is the author of the two books they are holding. Mr. Williams is holding The Counterfeiting of American a history fiction thriller, which, he notes, "Is based on an 80% true story." Mrs. Williams is holding another of David's books, The Vigilante Sniper. "All true Americans should read this book," he writes. "Someone is fed up with what's going on in America. One man decides to do something about it and defend the Constitution." The Adair County Knife Club meets starting at 3pmCT, each first and third Tuesdays, in the basement of the Columbia Masonic Lodge Hall, 501 Burkesville Street, Columbia, KY. The Williamses are frequent exhibitors and traders. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A Tableful of great local gifts: Books about Adair County 2011-12-17 - 307 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. A tableful of local books is located in the anteroom of the Adair County Public Library. They include the masterpiece 2 volume histories of Adair County by Mike Watson, the history of the Dr. Pepper plant book by Lilburn Roy, and the two volume country store series by Ernestine Bennett, and a wonderful calendar of Courthouse illustrations and photos for 2012. The library is located at 307 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Reflections: Trees at The Pines at Lindsey Wilson 2011-12-17 . Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Horses on a cold December morning 2011-12-17 - Shelby County, KY - Photo by Pen. Horses graze on the single patch of green on a cold late autumn morning in Shelby County, KY. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Heather Spoon, Chris Bragg: 2011-12-16 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Lindsey Wilson College. Lindsey Wilson College Energy Technology Career Academy Heather Spoon collects vegetable oil waste earlier this month from FiveStar store No. 2250, 3100 Burkesville Road, Columiba, KY. Assisting Spoon is store general manager Chris Bragg. -DUANE BONIFER. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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