Free encore performance at LCW Parnell Stadium 2021-11-01 - Photo from ACHS Band collection. The Adair County High School Band was chosen for 3rd place in the state KMEA Class AAA finals Saturday, October 30, 2021. They invite everyone to join them in the free Community Encore performance tonight, Monday, November 1st, at 6:30pmCT at Lindsey Wilson's Parnell Family Stadium. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

BFT pro staff media camp held at Holmes Bend Marina 2021-11-01 - Adair Co., KY - Photo courtesy David Jones. Brushpile Fishing Television pro staff media camp was held recently on beautiful Holmes Bend Marina. Many states were represented with outdoor writers, industry, crappie fishermen, online magazines and television shows; all of these to showcase Holmes Bend Marina, Green River Lake and Adair County. Adair Tourism says "Thanks to David, Kelly, Joey and staff at the Marina for such a great job." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Drew Smith adds art to biggest pumpkin 2021-11-01 - Adair County, KY - Photo from family collection. The state's largest pumpkin was carved by Adair County artist Drew Smith. He has been making art with pumpkins, delighting crowds at schools and around town with his own pumpkins and this year the giant pumpkin he carved was donated to him from the Bayuk farm. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Biggest pumpkin in KY grown in Flatwoods, Adair County 2021-11-01 - Adair County, KY - Photo from family collection. Celebrating the biggest pumpkin in the state at the Adair County Bayuk farm are, from left, Tiffany Fowler, Alaynah Bayuk, Heather Dillon, Lynn Patrick, Shallyn Bayuk, Emmett Bayuk, Mike Patrick, Sean Patrick and Scott Bayuk. The award on the left is from the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth (the organization that sanctions pumpkin growing all over the world). This plaque goes to the first place pumpkin at each weigh off. The plaque at right is specific to the Robert's Family Farm weigh off designating the 15th annual weigh off and and features the logo for the Kentucky Giant Pumpkin Growers club. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Red Shouldered Hawk 2021-11-01 - Jefferson Co., KY - Photo by Pen. As the leaves fall, resting hawks become much easier to spot. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Kentucky: Green River Knob in the distance 2021-10-31 - Casey Co., KY - Photo by Lee Murphy. Lee writes, "Picture taken on October 29, 2021 from Dogwood Gap in Casey County. In the far distance is Green River Knob which is the tallest point in the Knobs region of Kentucky with an elevation of 1,789 feet. It is also the highest point outside the Eastern Coalfields. It is located at the border of Casey and Pulaski counties." Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

That Lonesome Valley 2021-10-31 - Adair Co., KY - Photo courtesy JIM. Notation and first verse of "That Lonesome Valley," from "The Negro Sings a New Heaven," by Mary Allen Grissom, Dover Publications 1969, page 2. In 1930, after years of meticulous note-taking, Ms. Grissom's slim compilation was published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. This collection of several dozen hymns, both words and melodies, were mostly "selected from those sung in the neighborhood of Louisville, Ky., and certain rural sections in Adair County." Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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