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Scenic Adair Co., KY: Spire, Rotunda from Hill of Lindsey Wilson 2012-01-31 - From the Hill of Lindsey Wilson, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The sun in the western sky leaves a warm glow over the new Adair County Judicial Center and pleasantly outlines the cross on the Christian Church Spire. A perfect time for the Columbia Baptist Church chimes to play "Now the day is over," and a time to reflect. A time to remember that feelings the scene evokes will never again be quite as well as Gordon Crump did, when he recalled his thoughts looking out over Columbia in the evening from Lindsey Wilson in his classic story, How I discovered Columbia . . . when Columbus didn't, so overwhelmingly popular with graduates of the school, if not yet equally discovered by hierarchy. And memories of Miss Katie Murrell, the Lindsey librarian who immortalized the phrase which describes Arbor Vitae Hill in a more poetic manner. But a mischievous thought arises, too: An unforgettable bit of theatre in the first Silent City when Richard Phelps, as Circuit/County Court Clerk William Caldwell, compared his tiny office on Greensburg Street to the Adair Judicial Center. From the City Cemetery, he pointed a cane toward the construction site, and told the crowd, "And they tell me that Mr. Dennis Loy is building a 35,000 square foot office for himself, just over that fence. My, My." To be fair, Dennis' Courthouse is shared a bit for other functions than drivers' licenses, penitentionering processes, and signing up those with real Golden Rule principles as organ donors. Permalink | Comments?

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