Appalatin band at Lindsey Wilson College, Tues. Oct. 25, 2011 2011-10-25 - Louisville, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo. The Appalatin Band, offers a fusion of Latin and Appalachian music. Members of the band are, not necessarily in order, Marion Obano Solano, Fernando Moyo, Steven Sizemore, Luis de Leon, Mason Roberts, and Yani Vozos. The band will perform at 7pmCT, Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at Lindsey Wilson College's Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall, 155 Blue Raider Drive, Columbia, KY. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to all. -PHIL HANNA Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mike Watson one of the early performers for Silent City 2011-10-24 - 307 Greensburg St, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Starts at 5pmCT TODAY Adair County Historian Mike Watson was one of the first actors at the Adair Public Library, here to portray Parker C. Hardin. 5th Annual Silent City Tour started at Adair County Public Library, 307 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY. Mr. Watson says that there is still another facet to native Adair Countians who have received Congressional Medals of Honor: Besides Sgt. Dakota Meyer and Brig. Gen. James Alexander Williamson, there a third recipient, but this one has a twist. He's promised the details, for later. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Golden Opportunity Bridge on KY 80 2011-10-24 - Combs, Perry Co., KY - Photo by H.B. Elkins. KDH photo. Beginning next year, the state plans to replace an aging bridge carrying KY 80 over the North Fork of the Kentucky River near Combs with a modern bridge. The existing bridge, a three-span steel Parker truss bridge, was built in 1929 and has been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge is approximately 450 feet long and consists of three 150-foot spans. -KDH. Dry Creek in northern Adair County would fit under it nicely, in most places. To visit the bridge from Columbia, KY: Hang a left at the LBN, thence onto the Hal Rogers, then KY 80. 139 miles, 3 hours and 4 minutes, according to Google Maps. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Big Al's 5 second chili critique 2011-10-24 - 1960 Litton Lane, Hebron, KY - Photo by Big Al Owens. By Big Al Owens "The best chili dinner money can buy." Big Al Owens, the Big Rig Trucker, Big Buck Hunter, and Big Name Radiator slayer, stopped in at this Skyline Chili, at 1960 Litton Lane, Hebron, KY, and sampled their Bill of Fare. This macho Anthony Bourdain has eaten real chili in the top chili towns of the world: Dunnville, Chicago, Cincinnati (Hebron, KY), and Somerset, and to date he's emphatic: Skyline in Hebron has the best. -CM Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Big Al Owens on the cover of Rolling Stone 2011-10-24 - Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland - Photo from Big Al Owens, the Big Rig Trucker. "It looks like Big Al may be bigger than the legendary rockers Dr. Hook as I accomplished what they could not. I landed a cover on the Rolling Stone. Lol," writes Big Al Owens, the Big Rig Trucker.The photo was taken back in the summer of 2011 in Cleveland at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. If you go: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,1100 Rock and Roll Boulevard, Cleveland, OH is 7 hours and 52 minutes, 453 miles, from the site of Rock and Roll's greatest moment in history, the Jerry Lee Lewis concert at Adair County High School at its former site at 322 Gen. John Adair Drive, Columbia, KY, Distance and time estimation according to Google Maps. Best driven in a restored 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtop convertible. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

(Ad) Circle R Restaurant, Columbia, KY 2011-10-24 - 712 Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo from Circle R Restaurant. David Isaacs. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of KY, Black Vultures: While the Fishermen are Away 2011-10-24 - Green River Reservoir - Photo by Lawrence Hamilton. Lawrence writes, "While the fishermen are away the birds will play. This is what I found to be happening while I was launching my boat this morning at Site 1, Green River Lake. I was afraid to leave my truck and trailer in the parking lot, so I parked as far away as I could." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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