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A Time to Remember Sparks Feed Mill, album cover
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A Time to Remember Today, at Sparks Mill, Gradyville, KY
2007-06-23 - Gradyville, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
The old Sparks Feed Mill at Gradyville has been brought back to life by Bill Davenport. Today, Saturday, June 23, 2007, from 10:00am to 2:00pm, the old store and the eight acres of park-like land around here will be open for A Time to Remember. Bro. Bill, who recently retired as District Superintendent of the Columbia District of the United Methodist Church, has provenance he'll share about every item in the building, from the reworded sign on the left with his name recently painted on it, to the fact that the Royal Crown Cola sign on the right was rescued from an earlier mission obstructing a rat-hole. Artefacts abound inside the store. While it won't be a working feed store, the building is coming back to life to serve important social functions, as it did through ages of Gradyville history.
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A Time to Remember at Sparks Mill. Memorabilia abounds
2007-06-23 - Sparks Feed Mill, Gradyville, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
There is a long story someone knows behind every one of these items of Adair County memorabilia, from the center match cover from one of the late Adair County PVA (then Tax Commissioner) W.K. "Billy" Neat to the 40 year old, 1967 Adair County Conservation Club membership card with the signatures of Buell Rodgers and J.C. Sparks. They are still on display at the rescued Sparks Feed Mill in Gradyville, KY, site of a Get-Together and Time to Remember hosted by current proprietor Bill Davenport on Saturday, June 23, 2007 from 10am to 2pm CT.
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A Time to Remember Advertising from old businesss
2007-06-23 - Sparks Feed Mill, Gradyville, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
This board of advertising matchbooks includes a number of significant businesses from the past. A notable one above, in the center of the board, is perhaps the champion of all hypehnates, Grissom-Maupin-Heskamp-Morrison Funeral Home, which current owner David Martin has truncated to its original name, "Grissom Funeral Home." The same has happened with "C.R. Barger" Insurance, now simply "Barger" Insurance. The board is on display today at the Get-Together, a Time to Remember at the old Sparks Feed Mill in Gradyville, KY. going on today, Saturday, June 23, from 10am to 2pm, with host and current proprietor, Bill Davenport.
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A Time to Remember When KY acknowledged we were No. 1
2007-06-23 - Gradyville, Adair County, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
This 1972 license plate has a story of its own, which we haven't yet learned. But it evokes memories of every Adair Countian of the days when Kentucky license plates were produced the way they ought to be, with starting with the number "1" in the Number 1 county, alphabetically, county in the Commonwealth. For years, the F.X. Merkely family had that plate. A succession of Adair County Clerk's reserved numbers for specific families. It was a right which often passed through generations. Stories were often told of Adair Countians with licenses below 100 getting police escorts on out-of-state trips where the lawmen believed they must be important persons, to merit such a low number. The police were right. They were from Adair County, KY, where everybody is a VIP. The plate above is displayed at the reclaimed Sparks Feed Mill in Gradyville, KY, where an old fashioned Get-together is taking place today, Saturday, June 23, 2007, from 10am to 2pm CT.
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