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2025 Book Fair: Authors and Exhibitors, Part 1

See Also: 2025 Adair Regional Book and Arts Fair exhibitors, Part 2

The Adair County Annual Book Fair and Arts & Crafts Show is coming up soon, from 10amCT to 2pmCT on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at the Adair County VFW Post #6097, 500 Green Hills Road, Columbia, KY.

The show will feature many regional authors & artists, covering non-fiction & fiction, history & genealogy, local history, biography & memoir, poetry, how-to, science-fiction, religious & inspirational, children's literature, gardening, and much more!

Authors who will be on hand with their books include Ernie Smith Bennett, Darlene Franklin Campbell, Phillip Wood Coffey, Kathy Daulton, Sam Coffey, Serena Corbin, Paulette Kerns Cox, Joe Fair, Ann H. Gabhart, and Dwan Hadley.

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  • Ernie Smith Bennett and her Old Country Stores Books. Ernie has been a fixture at the Adair Regional Book Fairs and never fails to please shoppers with her wonderful Country Stores books. She is short on supplies, so come early to find the books, or place an order for the next printing.

  • Darlene Franklin Campbell, native Adair County writer and artist, teacher and so much more!

  • Phillip Wood Coffey, poet and story teller, native of Adair, but resident of Greensburg, has a few copies of his wildly popular book and will be taking additional orders at the Fair this year.

  • Kathy Daulton Kathy Daulton was born and raised in Columbia. She will be introducing her first novel, "One Never Knows." It's a fictional murder mystery full of twists and turns that occurred in 1981 in Columbia, KY.

  • Sam Coffey (1967 Adair County High School graduate) is proud to share his first novel - a murder mystery - "Revenge Gone Amok." He will also be introducing his second book - a romance novel - "Love Beneath the City".

  • Serena Corbin, local artist and author of wonderful children's stories, will have a variety of items and more for you to examine.

  • Paulette Kerns Cox is an Adair County native.

  • Joe Fair, an Adair County native and Vietnam veteran with an award-winning best seller.

  • Ann H. Gabhart wraps her stories around Kentucky historical times and settings. She's written about Shakers, explored Appalachian history for stories like The Song of Sourwood Mountain, and mined her family history for Angel Sister, Scent of Lilacs, and more.

    For her new release, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford, Ann stepped back to the 1840s for a historical Kentucky setting, Graham Springs Hotel where people went to "take the waters" for various illnesses. Ann keeps her keyboard warm on her Kentucky farm. Learn more at www.annhgabhart.com

    "Step into the glittering world of Graham Springs, Kentucky, where healing waters promise restoration, evening dances offer romance, and secrets lurk beneath the surface in Ann H. Gabhart's enchanting new novel, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford."

  • Dwan Hadley is a local minister and author of several inspirational books.


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2025 Book Fair: Authors and Exhibitors for Nov 8



2025-10-29 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Mike Watson.
The Adair County Annual Book Fair and Arts & Crafts Show is coming up soon, from 10amCT to 2pmCT on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at the Adair County VFW Post #6097, 500 Green Hills Road, Columbia, KY.

Authors and Exhibitors will include: Top row, L-R: Ernie Smith Bennett, Darlene Franklin Campbell, Phillip Wood Coffey. Bottom row, L-R: Paulette Kerns Cox, Dwan Hadley, Ann H. Gabhart.
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