Back to School: Boarding bus in Green Co., KY 2011-08-05 - Green Co., KY - Photo by Amy Chapman. It's back to school time in Green Co., KY "My two children getting on the bus in Green County," Amy Chapman writes with this photo. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Whitehurst Diaries: The Dreams of an ambitious cat 2011-08-05 - Old Gradyville RD, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Even cats can dream: Willis the Cat was exhausted from his academic endeavors the first day of home school, and fell asleep with the books, dreaming perhaps, of the great things to come with his new title, perhaps, of the way people will tip their hat when he enters The Store, perhaps of the way everyone will step aside for him at the post office, perhaps when he too, can read and takes over the mail route, or becomes the first coach from Gradyville to actually win an NCAA basketball title. Perhaps a pastor at the little church now closed. And perhaps, he will continue to lead a quiet, happy life in peaceful Big Creek Valley, looking after Jim. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Whitehurst Diaries: Bookshelves and the erudite cat 2011-08-05 - Old Gradyville RD, Gradyville, KY - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. Soon to be Dr. Willis the Cat looks up from scanning titles, passing over the one by Madeleine l'Engle about a girl with a hateful piano teacher at the Swiss Boarding School. Though soon to be Dr. Cat was once, himself, something of an orphan until he adopted Jim Whitehurst, his taste in books is more toward works of science, such as "Hummingbirds to Swat and Enjoy for Snacks." Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Whitehurst Diaries: Bookcase opens new vistas for Willis 2011-08-05 - Old Gradyville RD, Gradyville, KY - Photo By Sharon Whitehurst. Willis the Cat: soon to be Dr. Cat, PhD, quickly adapted to his new bookcase campus after Jim Whitehurst, succumbing to his wife's incessant mention of 'bookshelves', returned from the auction barn with a cherry bookcase fit for a President, even a royal cat.. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Opening Day: Welcome bags for first grade 2011-08-05 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan W. Reed. Adair Co., KY School District Photo. Teachers arrive early on Day One - Across the district, Adair County teachers arrived early Thursday, August 4, 2011, getting set to make sure classrooms were ready and that students would feel welcome and motivated about starting school. Ms. Bridgette Rowe was busy before 7am preparing welcome bags for each first-grade student in her class. -Alan W. Reed. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

First day of school at CWC kidergarten 2011-08-05 - CWC, 222 Gen. John Adair DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Alan W. Reed. First Day Axieties - Alan W. Reed Jordan Foley, Kindergarten student in Ms. Julie Brockman's class receives a dose of reassurance from his mother, Tiffany Foley. According to mom, Jordan was "wide-awake and rearing to go at 4am this morning". After personally walking their Kindergarten children to his/her class, parents were able to deal with own separation anxieties at Colonel Wm. Casey's annual "Boo Hoo" breakfast consisting of donuts, coffee and juice. The "Boo Hoo" breakfast was presented jointly by the school's Family Resource Center, Camp Casey, and the district's Title I program. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Plumb Bobbing 2011-08-05 - 275 Country Club RD, Columbia, KY - Photo By Kim Goodin. Ashley Goodin plumb bobbing: Plumb bobbing is a method used on the putting green to find out which way a putt will break, with MacKenzie Murrell of Campbellsville, KY in the background, putting. They are on #2 at The Pines the Pines at Lindsey Wilson. Kim Goodin Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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