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Readers' help wanted: Did Mark Twain visit, write here?

  • Was Mark Twain ever in Columbia?
  • Can you add to list of "fun places" in Kentucky
Letter to the editor from Sharon Green:

Andrew's 4th grade class is doing a Kentucky Scrapbook

When I was a girl, I was told that Mark Twain visited several times.

One story is that he actually spent some time writing in the little spring house that was just behind our Lindsey Wilson Street home (actually on the Harvey property, just over the fence).

I figured this would be the place to ask about these things or any other KY connection to Mark Twain.

I've already gotten a picture of the Janice Holt Giles home for him.

Any "fun" landmarks that you think we should remind him of from our state?

Sharon Green
Leitchfield, KY
sgreen@TLRMC.com
Thanks for the inquiry.

You've posed a big fascinating question: Whether Mark Twain ever visited and wrote in Columbia! I had never heard that, but I would sure hope it's true. Maybe a scholarly historian will come to our rescue on that question, with a credible yes or no.

You have come to the right place, because some of our more erudite readers will surely come up with answers.

You have Young Andrew headed in the right direction.

As for fun places around, Grayson County has so many, such as Falls of the Rough, the lakes, and the sites of legend which abound there, that Andrew could fill a book without ever leaving the borders of Grayson County.

Kentucky has so many fun places elsewhere, such as the Woolridge Monuments in Mayfield, that Andrew could have a lifetime project cataloguing the neat sites which could merit inclusion in his book.

I'm sure other readers can offer more about Adair County and from other parts of the state.

Even though this list is limited to Adair County, I like to nominate a few for his consideration:

  1. The faces on the columns of the Adair County Courthouse, Columbia, KY
  2. Begley Chapel on the hill above your childhood home
  3. Colonel William Casey's grave off Bliss Road. Colonel Casey is buried sitting up.
  4. Tupman's Pond, KY 55 between Columbia and Zion, and, by the way the brick buildings which were once home to the Zion Baptist Church and the Zion School. The pond was created July 7, 1907, by the same cloudburst which caused the Gradyville Flood.
  5. Colonel Frank Wolford's burial site, in the Columbia City Cemetery. Though Colonel Wolford never gets as much ink as his nemesis, the more flamboyant John Hunt Morgan, Wolford whupped Morgan every time they had an encounter in the Civil War.
  6. All of Old Knifley Andrew should know that there is no "knife" in "Knifley" (nif lee), despite the way public radio and television announcers pronounce the name.
  7. Milltown, KY, where his great great grandmother Etna McCaffree once lived. And about the big fish Granny said was once caught in the Milltown Mill waterwheel. "Big enough to feed the whole town," she said. And I believe she said that a steak off the fish's head was more than her family could eat.
  8. The Bank of Columbia. Many believe that a robbery there was the work of the Jesse and Frank James gang.
  9. Edgewood, the unique museum/meetings owned and operated by Joe A. and Terry Moore. For now, it is the closest thing we have to an Adair County History museum.
  10. And of course all of Historic Gradyville, KY, site of the terrible flood which killed so many people; site of a still unsolved bank robbery and famous murder; birthplace of Western Kentucky University's Ed Diddle and of R.R. "Pete" Walker, one of the 20th Century's most illustrious Adair Countians; home of the exquisite little Gradyville Baptist Church, which makes Gradyville and the Big Creek Valley one of Kentucky's most unforgettable sights. Historic Gradyville, the home of so many virtuous women and righteous men.
Those are the top 10 fun places I can think of, for now, in Adair County, but I sure that is just a start of the list. Reader's are invited to help, either by sending information to Mrs. Green, or to: ed@columbiamagazine.com --Uncle EdSee related article:


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