Scenic Adair Co., KY: Tulips downtown 2011-04-21 - 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. One of the most beautiful flower gardens in Columbia is now in bloom on the lawn of the Historic Adair County Courthouse, 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY. However, getting to it for a close up view is a perilous, dangerous undertaking, as pedestrians often have to dodge speeding, noisy, Mustangs and S10's to get to the centerpiece. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Poke is everywhere 2011-04-21 - Adair Co. District 6, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. There's no need to go hungry in Adair County these days, not if one has an ounce of gumption and knows two or three iotas about native plant life. These are the days of tender poke shoots, growing everyone, like the tallest broad leafed plants left, above growing amidst henbit and fescue along Cane Valley RD. Most folks have ritual double cooking and mixing recipes for the delicacy eaten as a mess of greens, eaten ceremonially as mandatory spring therapy. They're also good fried and smothered in gravy, a la the Fairplay school of culinary arts, and, our favorite, as a flavoring in a spring garden salad, with all 'local' ingredients: picked from the earth, bought from a neighbor gatherer, or picked from the local shelves of the IGA, the Walmart, or the Sava-dollar store. The salad has a handful of chopped, tender stalk and all, poke, slices of avocado and sweet white onion, walnuts, boiled eggs, crunchy sauteed catfish, tilapia or chicken, tempura fried dandelion blossoms, deep fried kudzu leaves, leaves of violets and dandelion, violet blossoms and petals from redbud, seasoned with lemon, coarse ground black pepper, and sea salt or EVOO oliver oil and rice vinegar to taste. Best to buy, we guess, the local produce from an approved vendor, though I picked my own, ate it, and lived to write this story. Recipes and poke gathering stories, limericks, poems, and new country music paeans to poke welcome -Ed Waggener Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

June Scobee Rodgers, 2011 Founders Day speaker 2011-04-21 - 210 Lindsey Wilson ST, Columbia, KY - Photo from Lindsey Wilson College. June Scobee Rodgers: The widow of the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger will give the keynote address at this year's Lindsey Wilson College Founders' Day dinner. June Scobee Rodgers will speak at 6pmCT on Thursday, April 28, at LWC's Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center, 430 Helen Flatt DR, Columbia, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Three of the Chelf girls 2011-04-21 - Shelbyville, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. Three of the 'Chelf girls' in attendance at the baby shower for Teresa Waggener on Saturday, April 16, 2011, are pictured above. From left The captivating Miss Molly Lane, held by her mother, Amy Chelf Lane, and the grandmother who always brings presents to her three granddaughters, Andy Chelf. All live in the Carmel, IN, area. A fourth Chelf girl, Miss Audrey Lane, was busy helping host the occasion. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Dramatic moment in CU upset of No. 8 Union College 2011-04-21 - Matthew ST, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Richard RoBards. CU photo. Danny Lapchak tags out Union's Cory Ragland, who was caught stretching to third on an error in the second inning. Defensive plays, solid pitching and 10 runs were the key for 30th-ranked Campbellsville University in a non-conference win, Wednesday night, April 20, 2011, as the Tigers upset No. 8 Union College, 10-1, at Tiger Field. -Chris Megginson Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Civil War Retrospective: The Whitehurst twins 2011-04-21 - Photo by Sharon Whitehurst. The men in the old photo are John Henry Whitehurst,left and James Berry Whitehurst, twins, from Goldsboro, Pitt Co., NC, who enlisted to fight for the CSA. My husband Jim is also an identical twin and is named for James Berry Whitehurst's grandson and great grandson. The Whitehursts were in the Confederate cavalry. My own great, great grandfather, Almeron Davis was a 39 year old farmer in the Adirondack town of Hague, NY when he enlisted in the 5th Cavalry, Company H, to fight for the Union. He was captured at Chantilly, VA, and was a Confederate prisoner for a while before being exchanged for Confederate Prisoners, who, like he, were deemed no longer fit for war. -Sharon Whitehurst, Gradyville, Adair Co., KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

New Grandstand, Russell Co. Fairgrounds, Russell Springs, KY 2011-04-21 - Lakeway DR, Russell Springs, KY - Photo by John E. Moss, (c) John E. Moss. Steel work on the new grandstand at the Russell Co. Fairgrounds is being erected, in the background, as training continues on the track. Photo by John E. Moss, Jamestown, KY, (c) John E. Moss Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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