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Fall at Trabue Russell House a special time

By Linda Waggener

If you're wondering what the historic Trabue Russell House, 201 Jamestown Street, offers, we're posting some fall event photos to show it inside and out.

The City will welcome everyone to an open house Saturday, December, 2, 2023 featuring colonial style holiday decorations, Victorian style themes, and a 1950s vintage room with light refreshments served.


The fall season is a special time at the historic home, preserved by the Adair Heritage Association and maintained and owned now by the City of Columbia.

Volunteers joined Mary Anne and Barry Loy recently to help make it possible for ACES fifth graders to experience life as it might have been when the historic Trabue Russell House and its builder Daniel Trabue were new to Columbia.

For tours and information about the historic property contact City Hall at 270-384-2501.


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Fifth graders making apple cider



2023-11-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Barry Loy was the guide as students learned the art of pressing apples to make apple cider. Each student would get to taste what they made at the end of the day. Students of Angie Smith are Ava Centers, Jenna Spears, Carman Paz-Holley, Bella Cole, Emmitt Davenport, Tinsley Burton, Olivia Jenkins and Carson.

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Getting to know local history



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In one of the rooms students got to view various bits of local history, telling the story of life over the years in Columbia in Adair County. From left are Jace MacKinzie, Isaac Farmer, McKenzie Humphries, Arianna Snow, Delcie Burton, Breck Pickett, Sadie Mantooth, Reese Corbin, teacher Miranda, Bailey, and Katie Edwards.

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Making paint with nature's colors



2023-11-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Painting in Daniel Trabue days would have been done with natural colors from Mother Earth. Mary Anne Loy led the students in how to make their own paint - pick plants and berries, like poke berries, put them in a jar of cold water, then leave them in the sun for two weeks. She strained them and what was left was the natural colors the children were painting with in this picture. From left are Christina Burton, Kalen Scruggs, Brenden Shillings, Millie?? Thompson, Sophia Rowe, Reagan Hillock, and Amani Coomer.

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Learning about weapons of Daniel Trabue's day



2023-11-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Frontiersman Richard Phelps displayed weapons that would have been used to kill the meat that Daniel Trabue and company would have had to eat in his day. With him are students Karlie Irvin, Ava Loy, Kinzlee Foley, Kevin Murphy, James Delaney, and Isabella Stubbs.

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Medicinal plants intrigue fifth graders



2023-11-30 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com.
Retired teacher Sheila Willis, at right, gave presentations on medicinal plants that would have been used to heal people in the Trabue family lifetime. She gave examples from the garden, starting with Lambs Ear which she encouraged students to lay against their cheeks. The softness of the leaves amazed them, even more after she explained how it could help with healing.

Sheila told the students, "say one of Daniel Trabue's kiddos woke up with a fever one morning... there would have been no clinics to get to. ... most folks would have used the herbs available to them in plants. Touching the Lambs Ear, students described it as fuzzy and soft. No bandaids would have been available, but Lambs Ear leaves could be used... acting like Neosporin... it also could have been used as a biodegradable toilet paper in those days. She had more examples and expects more next year.

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