Elizabeth Lodge: Grading and Drainage plan 2011-08-29 - Photo from Clayton Watkins Construction Co., Leitchfield, KY. Elizabeth Lodge, LLLP. This grading and drainage plan gives an overhead look at the 32-unit, $4 million-project getting underway in September, 2011. The development, just outside the City Limits of Columbia, is on land purchased from Wendell Rainwater. Tommy Grider, Grider Real Estate and Auction Service, handled the transaction. The project is scheduled for completion in October 2012. The generic construction street number, until the street is named, is 689 Green Hills Road, Columbia, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Cardinal Inn, 1942, successor to White Castle Inn 2011-08-28 - Looking south to Square from 100 block of Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY - Photo from collection of Ann Curtis. This old photo is of the Adair County Courthouse, May 19, 1942. But it also shows the sign on the corner of Greensburg and the Square with the Cardinal Inn, the name which replaced Columbia's White Castle Inn after the owners discovered they had inadvertently used the name of a national chain of restaurants. A few other features to be noted are the more casual parking patterns, the shade tree on the other corner of Greensburg and the Square, parking around the courthouse, and, barely visible far across the Square looking between the Cardinal Inn sign and the building: The large window of the old First National Bank, considered by many the most beautiful facade on the Square. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Rachel Phipps has low round at Russell County 2011-08-28 - Lakewood Country Club, 4214 Highway 379, Russell Springs, KY - Photo by Coach Kim Goodin. Coach Kim Goodin writes: Rachel Phipps teeing off on the Par three 9th hole at Lakewood Country Club in the KIT. Rachel shot the low round for Adair Co. with a 95.- Kim Goodin The photo was taken Saturday, August 27, 2011. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Whitehurst Diaries: King Willis still loves head pats 2011-08-28 - Old Gradyville RD, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. He's clawed his way up the bureaucracy to the pinnacle of power at Whitehurst Manor, but there's still a bit of kitten in Willis the Cat, he still loves a good head rub. He's the embodiment of William Blake's suggestion that God made the Cat so that man could embrace the Tiger. Some dude, this cat about town. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Whitehurst Diaries: Willis the Cat surveys wondrous realm 2011-08-28 - Old Gradyville RD, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Undisputed Alpha Cat of the Big Creek Valley Willis may look laid back and relaxed, but his alert ears betray his alert battle readiness. One can appreciate his kinship with his Serengeti brothers; his royalty in miniature. No Lion King looks over his Pride with more macho self-assuredness than Willis. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Whitehurst Diaries: Willis, bemused by a subject 2011-08-28 - Old Gradyville RD, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Willis the Cat has made a rapid ascent up the corporate ladder since contracting with the Whitehursts. From his command post on top of the Whitehurst Fridge, he occasionally deigns eye contact with one of his favorite loyal subjects, Gina Gould. "Gina and her husband, Matt, and son Devin moved here from Wyoming in April of this year. They purchased what I understand is called the old Baker place, from Brian and Lisa Kemp, on Old Gradyville RD. Gina immediately fell under the thrall of Willis the Cat," - Sharon Whitehurst Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Melson Ridge School, 1937-1938, with identifications 2011-08-28 - Cundiff, KY - Photo from Tara Hadley/Hansen-Edward Hadley collection. Melson Ridge School Group, 1937-1938: [Married names of females in ( ).] Mike Watson writes: This is one of at least three photos of this school group. Two photos are almost alike, taken the same day, except in one the teachers are sitting in front of the students. In the second, the teachers are standing at each end, and in this one, the plaque with school and year are almost totally covering the face of Ruby Cape (Coffey). The students and teachers were identified by my mother, Ruby Cape Watson and her sisters, Ella Cape Bunch and Gladys Cape Bunch on several occasions in the 1980s and 1990s. Front row, sitting on ground: Ernest Jones, Teacher; Roscoe Antle, Teacher Second row: Ben Huddleston, Delpha Cape (Grant), Will Ed Cape, Ilene Blakey (Reeder), Buell Hadley, Ruby Cape (Coffey), Kathleen Huddleston (Powell), Maxine Huddleston (Dykes), Fay Hadley (Willan), Walter Burchett Third row: Coba Helm (behind Will Ed Cape), Marvin Cape (behind Ilene Blake, Norman Green, Ernest Cape, Woodrow Morrison (behind and left of Woodrow Morrison), Pauline Huddleston (Wright), Pauline Cape (Grant). Fourth row: Ruby Cape (Watson), Junior Willie Bunch, Lois Cape (Hadley Polston), Mary Edna Hadley (Hadley), Dorothy Melson, William Huddleston Fifth row: Herschel Helm (in front of post), Dorothy Thomas, Thomas), Dorothy Green (Logston), Gladys Cape (Bunch), Noreen Cape (Byrd), Coolidge Grant (in front of post) Back row: Rollin Burchett, Woodrow Hadley, Edward Hadley, Anna Helm (Howell) Martha Shearer, Christine Huddleston (Andrew) -submitted by Mike Watson, Adair County Historian Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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