Site of 6th Annual Burton Logging Pig Roast, March 3, 2012 2012-03-04 - Millerfield Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Joe L. Barbee. Burton Logging was the site of the 6th Annual Burton Logging Pig Roast and Mule Pull on Saturday, March 3, 2012, and co-owner Larry Burton says, it was the 30th-to 40th annual mule pull since his father, Joseph Burton, now 78, started the tradition for the first Saturday in March each year. Over 300 people were in attendance from counties all over Kentucky and many from out of state. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Coming soon, a view we've never seen before 2012-03-04 - Jamestown Street and Russell Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Oldtimers can think about it When the buildings ahead, in the far left, are torn down, there will be a view we've never seen before. When the structures facing Russell Road, starting with Tommy Grider's building on the left to Central Kentucky Realty were first built, they were built on an excavation dug from a hill behind them which was higher than the lowest section of that run of buildings. On top of that hill there was a 2.5 story frame house, which dominated the skyline along with the tallest trees in town. When the Hot Prints/Movieland building was constructed, later, the rest of the hill was leveled. When these buildings are totally razed, it won't mean, as the removal of Long John Silvers building removal did, a temporary return to the original elevation, but, briefly, an all new, flatter view until the new CVS Drug Store is built on the site. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Storm Night, March 2, 2012: Merchant Tower 2012-03-04 - Columbia Avenue, Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith. The view is of Merchant Tower on the left, and looks down, or south on Columbia Avenue in Campbellsville, KY of stormy skies the night of March 2, 2012. Larry Smith, Operations Manager of The Big Dawg, FM 99.9, Campbellsville, KY, was on duty at the station's studio at the intersection of Columbia Avenue and East Main Street, reporting on the night of weather terror. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Night view, East on Main Street, Campbellsville, KY 2012-03-04 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith. Larry Smith caught Main Street virtually empty early Friday night, March 2, 2012, with only the Big Dawg SUV in the south side parking lane. The view is looking east from the corner of Columbia Avenue and Main Street. Larry Smith is Operations Manager for the Big Dawg, 99.9 FM. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Lo-Tech Defroster Speeder Upper 2012-03-04 - Town Creek Valley, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. It is not the greatest invention since Velcro,. It's not nearly in a class with David Heskamp's Car Caddy. But it surprised me when I hadn't met anyone who didn't use this method to speed up a car window defrost. Never had my own carport, so it comes in handy. When there is frost on the windshield the melting can be boosted by putting ones hand against the glass and let body heat speed the process, as in the first photo, above. In the second photo, after this step has been repeated several times, the thaw is started at many points. The third photo just illustrates that pointing the vehicle into the sun accelerates the process even more. Hasn't impressed a lot of people, but grandson Ev thought it was a cool idea for shortening the wait to start a trip to Columbia Walmart. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Hailstones, March 2, 2012, created bowl shaped craters 2012-03-04 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Donald Thomerson, Columbia, KY, antique dealer described he size of the hailstones which damaged five cars on his property on KY 80, between Columbia and Ozark, KY on Friday, March 2, 2012. He said he didn't see any golfball sized, but some were bigger than golfballs, smaller than baseballs. He described the bowl shaped craters the hail made in his lawn, one of which is shown in the photograph on the right - and it had cut through a cushioning layer of moss! Property damage in East Adair County was especially heavy. Thomerson didn't let the loss from the night before stop him from attending Saturday's big Burton Logging 6th Annual Pig Roast and Mule Pule, at Burton Logging on KY 76 in The Millerfields. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Let me tell you about my granddaughter: Hailey at 1 month 2012-03-04 - Shelby Co., KY - Photo by Pen. After a busy organizational first month - she was one month February 25, 2012, Hailey Elizabeth now has almost everybody in her command doing exactly what they are supposed to do, when they are supposed to, and is quite pleased with their progress thus far. She has recently agreed to a state visit to her ancestral Adair County, replete with entourage. Plain Mema, Great Mema, and Granddad are anticipating her arrival, any day now, we understand. -Granddad, Ed Waggener Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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