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Scenic Adair Co., KY: Yesterday's sunset


2011-09-25 - Birch Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Tommy Bailey.
Sunday, this will be yesterday's sunset: Yesterday will never return again. Gone forever, and so is another day of life. Be kind and enjoy each day to the fullest. - TOMMY BAILEY


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Intrepid Trio + One(?): Wayside marker, Floyd Collins


2011-09-25 - Sand Cave - Photo by Chris Collins.
This wayside marker is captioned: "Location. Location. Location."


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Intrepid Trio + One(?):


2011-09-25 - Sand Cave - Photo by Chris Bennett.
Chris Bennett writes: The now locked door to Floyd Collins Crystal Cave.


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Intrepid Trio + One(?): Collins family masonry work


2011-09-25 - Sand Cave - Photo By Chris Bennett.
Chris Bennett writes: The Collins Family worked hard the winter of 1918 to cut these stone steps out, so they could display the cave as a tourist attraction.


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Intrepid Trio + One(?): Photo of Floyd Collins gravesite


2011-09-25 - Photo by Chris Bennett.
Chris Bennett writes: This is a photo of the present day monument to Floyd Collins. The inscription calls Collins "The Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known."


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Intrepid Trio + One(?): Research photo


2011-09-25 - Inside Crystal Cave - Photo submitted by Chris Collins.
Chris Bennett writes: Collins' Casket being displayed in Crystal Cave. Before cave explorers go on an expedition they leave coins on Collins' Tombstone, paying homage to the famous cave explorer.


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Mark Hale: Professor A.W. Reed saw, but did not stop


2011-09-25 - Sand Cave - Photo by Chris Bennett.
Although the sign said "Do not touch!" local anarchist and sometimes Columbia Magazine commentator Mark Hale did the unthinkable. Encouraged by the photographer(fellow antagonist, anarchist and pretend historian Chris Bennett) Mr. Hale did in-fact try to enter Sand Cave. It is clear to the author, this duo has an outright disrespect for written government rules. Sand Cave is the site of the "Floyd Collins tragedy of 1925." Looking on the violation with discourse, "caveologist" Professor A. W. Reed, condemned the violation, but did not stop it.


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