Kentucky Color: Rowetown's Central Park 2014-12-25 - Rowetown, South Adair County, KY - Photo By Billy Joe Fudge, Retired District Forester. This is a view of lush, green, wooded, wintertime meadows in the midst of the Rowetown Community. Although it is often times hard to find a hard and definite line between rural communities, I guess you could say that Rowetown was and is a suburb of Toria. The community once had it's own one room school and a population of hardworking residents who were the epitome of subsistence farmers. - Billy Joe Fudge Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Santa must love Clay Ridge Kentucky . . . 2014-12-25 - Clay Ridge, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM . Santa must love Clay Ridge Kentucky . . . or else he's partial to my Metcalfe County 1966 classmate, Jackie Parson Coffey because she's been a good little girl. Her lifetime collection of Santas brightened our last mini-class reunion at her home this year. - LW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christmas in Greensburg, KY 2014-12-25 - 107 N Main Street, Greensburg, KY - Photo by Larry Smith. I have to give my vote to my hometown, Greensburg, KY, for having the outstanding Downtown Lights this year. This is a scene in what was once the fountain in front of the old City Hall, an adaptive re-use of a service station during the administration of a wonderful Green Countian, the late Mayor George Huddleston. The building is still owned by the Ciity of Greensburg, and is officially the George Huddleston Building. It is leased to the Calhoon & Cook Insurance Agency. I think it is amazing when a ccommunity is pro-active in preservation. Instead of building a new building out on the edge of town, re-inovate an existing one. The way Greensburg did with this one, and the successor City Hall, in the old Theiss Chevrolet Building on West Court Street. And, come to think about it, the way Taylor County preserved a beautiful Campbellsville Church for its library, and later, now Mayor Young and the Campbellsville City Council made the building into a Civic Center which is the envy of Kentucky. I just hope that Mayor Hardwick and Judge Executive Mike Stephens will see how this is such a win-win for all the beauttiful downtown buildings in Collumbia. Larry Smith, Operaations Manager, Shoreline Communicaation Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Remember? A Christmas Memory from nine years ago 2014-12-25 - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM . Remember this picture on CM? Who these folks are. From nine years ago. The mother in the photo hasn't changed one iota. But the girl with the million dollar smile has grown into a poised, accomplished rising star. The photo was taken nine years ago - or, more specifically, 36,319 (less maybe 500 or so slots botched and don't count) pictures ago Creating Memories in pictures on CM. Somebody please remember, and write this cutline for us. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Christmas Card from Ed & Linda from the Adair Co. we love so well 0000-00-00 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM . Still a Favorite from a Christmas Season Past - Photographing and documenting the beauty and happenings of this place in south central Kentucky USA - are among the things that give us joy this season. Right after family we give thanks for this voice and the readers and writers who share this site regularly. Thank you for being part of columbiamagazine.com and for all of your contributions to this good earth. May God bless you and your family this season. This is one of our favorites - ED & LINDA WAGGENER Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Silent Night: Main Street, Campbellsville, KY, Christmas Eve, 2014-12-25 - Main Street, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith. Before leaving the Big Dawg Studio to spend a Christmas eve with Conner, the Wonder Dawg and, perhaps, he says, the Smartest Dog in Taylor County - maybe Green, Adair, Casey, Marion & LaRue, too - Larry Smith snapped this picture of the lights on Main Street in Campbellsville. The street was empty. That beam from Heaven has no celestial meaning he knows of, but it could be, even so, an omen of the great things to come in Campbellsville in 2015. Already one of Kentucky's most Walkable Cities (TM). interest in Downtown Property is quite active. Most recently, he says, he saw a coy Columbia, KY power couple looking at the Bethel Building; when he told them, that would would be place for (your organization), the husband would only say, "You never know." (And Larry swore us to secrecy until and if something mateializes. -ED ) Photo by Larry Smith, Operations Manager, Shoreline Communications - FM 99.9 The Big Dawg & FM 92.7, The WAVE - Photo taken Wednesday, December 24, 2014.) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

History Mystery Picture: Monument to memories 2014-12-25 - ?????, South Central Kentucky - Photo Pulled from CM raw files. YOU WRITE THE CUTLINE.It's a monument to memories. Every cinder block remaining of this once grand gathering place could signify thousands of memories: Of athletic skills learned, of falls & bruises and maybe of fractured bones. For sure, romances and later marriages and families grew from meetings here. Many possibly remember the food served here. The photo from the raw files cropped up because of its Christmasy look: The live cedar Christmas tree, the mistletoe and the standing red cinderblock corner. The winning cutline can be factual or fictional - all one or the other, as in the late Steve Aaron's wisdom on gender preference: Pick one and stick with it.. If factual, a hint: This monument stands a few away from a historic and nomadic little building which once stood at the lowest elevation in its county. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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