Birds of Kentucky: To Hold a Mockingbird 2013-02-10 - Cane Valley, KY - Photo by Jamie Hitch. Today, just one day after sighting a beautiful Red Tailed Hawk at the Joey Breeding place in Cane Valley, Brandon Hitch, above went out to his pickup truck to find this Mockingbird trapped inside. He took time to have this photograph made then released the bird, which flew away, maybe all the better for the experience. Paired Photo. See also: Birds of Kentucky: Red Tailed Hawk Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Historian Mike Watson 2013-02-10 - 307 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Historian Mike Watson, above at the Adair County Public Library prior to the 2011 Silent City production in which he portrayed Columbia attorney Parker C. Hardin, is an Adair County native who has written several histories of Adair County. He now teaches history in Mercer County, KY, and maintains a home in Columbia, where, one day, he hopes to be Adair County's first Cemetery Commissioner, the only constitutional office Adair County does not currently fill. He's the author of the fascinating story published today, February 10, 2013, about the cholera outbreak of 1873. The photo was taken in the Genealogy Room at the Adair County Public Library, 307 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY, which serves, practically, as the writer's office when he is in Columbia - as he often is. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Three headstones suggest bigger story 2013-02-10 - 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The three side by side by side headstones - actually a single stone carved to give the appearance of three - with identical dates of death suggest a tragedy. The stones mark the final resting place of Fannie E Winfrey, I.C. Winfrey, and Sammie Winfrey. They were the victims of a tragic epidemic which struck the village of Columbia in 1873, when an employee of the Winfrey Hotel contracted cholera while visiting the Marion County Fair in Lebanon, KY, and unwittingly spread the disease on his return to Columbia. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A triple headstone marks Winfrey family loss to cholera 2013-02-10 - Columbia Cemetery, 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The identical date on three headstones just to the right of the obelisk in the photo above, in the Winfrey family plot in the old section of the Columbia Cemetery sugggest a larger story - and there is one, told today, Sunday, February 10, 2013, by Mike Watson, Adair County Historian, in a riveting story about an outbreak of cholera in Columbia. The Winfrey plot is easy to find so long as the famous Blue Barn, background, remains. - EW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Downtown Columbia, KY: Valentine's Day Flowers & Bears 2013-02-10 - 328 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Window Shoppers and Downtown Diners out for turn around the Square can't help but notice this window of Flowers & Bears, a reminder that Valentine's Day is just 4 days off: Thursday, February 14, 2013. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Winfrey Hotel/Collins Drug Building today - Feb. 10, 2013 2013-02-10 - 328 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The Winfrey Hotel building, the site of the story by Mike Watson, as it looks today. The building is now occupied by The Flower Garden. This photo taken Sunday, February 10, 2013. Many famous people have used the second floor as a residence, including later Kentucky Governor Thomas Bramlette. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Old Winfrey Hotel building, where cholera epidemic started 2013-02-10 - 328 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Mike Watson. Oldest Building on the Public Squre and more: This photo is not old, at least by my standards--being post World War II. It appears to be a photographers proof and may have been taken by either Joseph Allison or Connell Morrison. Taken from the side yard of the Courthouse, from the Greensburg end, the photo is of the building most older Adair Countians remember fondly as Collins' Corner Drug, which is the oldest building on the Public Square and was for a very long time known simply as the Winfrey Hotel building--where the cholera epidemic took hold in 1873. Notice, to the right of the drug store, is Marshall's Variety Store, then the Kroger. To the left, and down Campbellsville Street, there were still trees on the Myers' house lot where the Municipal Building was constructed in the 1960s. - Mike Watson Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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