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Scenic Meatskin Road, Adair Co., KY - Day Lily time

2018-06-11 - Meatskin or Meat Skin Road - aka Weed-Sparksville Road/KY 768, Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.

Since Frances Salyers, co-proprietor of D & F Grocery and Deli in Gradyville, who does everything she can to be a one-person Gradyville Board of Trade & Tourism, raised the question as to how Meatskin (or is it Meat Skin?) Road got the name, this compelling issue has drawn us to go back and see its many wonders. Meatskin Road is a stunningly beautiful stretch of Adair County's longest KY highway. When we made the Trail on Sunday, June 10, 2018, we were haunted by some sadly missed old structures, a bit saddened about how the road has lost some of its most charming roadway because of unfortunate environmental assaults by well meaning road departments, by consequent missing wildflowers and poisoned gleaner crops such as dewberries, blackberries, poke and other edibles once safely harvested along the roadway. We missed many of the old neatly maintained farmsteads. On the other hand, some fabulous new ones have arisen. Houses which, alone, lakeside in Russell County, might cost a multiple of what they do on Meatskin Road. The scene above is of the wonderful old timey, volunteer sort of Day Lilies, the kind we still love best, survivors along the roadside, brightening a stretch of roadway we still love best - a ride my father, E.P. Waggener would have carried the mail on for free, I believe, just to be able to bring its magic to the supper table six days a week. - EW

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