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Clicking on Ginseng digging, with a few notes A column in this morning's Courier-Journal by Byron Crawford, recent Barnett's Creek landowner, remind us of what a big role Ginseng hunting, or 'sang digging, has played in the life of Adair County. Below, CM readers have quick links to the Byron Crawford column, to sites featuring Lee Murray of Hard Scratch, links to Lee Murray 'sang poetry, a link to Wikipedia's ginseng entry, and a link to a photo with a tie to Henry Giles and the plant, and finally our nominations for a ColumbiaMagazine.com Adair Ginseng Diggers Hall of Fame. Story today, September 9, 2007, on 'Dream Job'"For nature lovers, this is a dream job" is by Byron Crawford. It's about a Monticello woman who traipses Kentucky woods looking for ginseng. No reference to Adair County, KY, but ginseng is a valuable Adair County income producer. For more on Adair County Ginseng: Click here for Lee Murray photographs of ginseng in Adair County and links to other ginseng videos at "Alternate Nature Online Herbal" site. Click here to see Lee Murray poems, "Grandfather Sinseng is a Crafty Gentleman, digger's diary by Lee Murray, 1997, 2000. Includes photo of Lee Murray digging ginseng in late October 1997. Plus a sampling of poets Adair County poems, including, "Hard Scratch, Kentucky," "July 24--Whose woods are these," "Yellowhammer Woods," "July 29, Singing Branch," "Steep Ground and Rough Corners," Click here to read a Lee Murrary letter to ColumbiaMagazine.com, published June 15, 1996. Click here for entry in Wikipedia on Ginseng Click here for laws relating to harvest of ginseng. Kentucky season, according to this site, is August 15th and December 1st of each year. Click here for photo of Adair County author Roy G. Barnes, who regrets not having taken the late Henry Giles up on the late Sage of Spout Springs' offer to take Barnes 'sang hunting ColumbiaMagazine.com Adair County Ginseng Hall of Fame nominees: Byron Crawford, (ex patriotically, since he up and left fertile land on Barnett's Creek), Gordon Crump, Henry Giles (posthumously), Thomas Giles, Thomas Guy Perkins, and Lee Murray, Patsy Coomer Wilson and her most famous 'sang digging student, husband Bruce Wilson. Commentations, recollections, photographic depictions, additional nominations, and corrections, as always, welcome. We'd particularly like to have a mostly true story about how ginseng put someone through college, preferably veterinary school, but will go with the equivalent how ginseng money bought shoes to walk to Disappointment School. This story was posted on 2007-09-09 08:58:40
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