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2007 Downtown Days Picture Album

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2007 Downtown Days: Site of robbery re-enactment



2007-10-12 - Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
DOWNTOWN DAYS are already well underway, with booths set up for today and tomorrow. The harvest decorations are in place, and the "Bank" sign has been hung on the front of the Russell Building, where tomorrow at 12:00pmCT tjeRe-Enactment of the James-Younger Bank of Columbia Robbery. Given by Green River Cowboys and Guntown Mountain.robbers/ They will ride into town on horseback. rob the bank, and ride out with guns blazing. Marshals will keep the lanes open for the horsemen, but other than that, if tomorrow is like past re-enactments, there be be standing room only, and very little of that.. For the schedule tonight and the full day tomorrow, Click Here for printable schedule for both days.

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2007 Downtown Days: Visiting from Texas



2007-10-13 - Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
ANNETTE TAYLOR HOPKINS, San Angelo, TX, was at Downtown Days with Jean Dohoney McLean, Columbia, KY. Annette Hopkins grew up in a big white house across from Meadow Hill Inn, in Columbia, the daughter of the late Adair County Court Clerk and Mrs. Hershel Taylor. Her sister, Chan, now Chan Otis, now lives in Philadelphia, PA.

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2007 Downtown Days: Leon Lasley



2007-10-13 - Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
CAPTURING HEARTS WITH MUSIC, Leon Lasley accompanied the incmparable First Baptist Church Choir as they performed on the Main Stage just before noon today, Saturday, October 13, 2007, at Downtown Days 2007.

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2007 Downtown Days: Tumble Towne USA



2007-10-13 - Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
A LARGE CROWD of around 250 gathered to watch the show by performers from Tumble Towne, USA, Columba, KY, as they performed gymnastic feats Saturday morning at Downtown Days. Coaching, in red and white, is the academy's director, Brandi Waggener. Lower left corner, is Tumble Towne co-proprietor Doug Waggeneer, back to camera, hold Jadelyn, 10 their 10 months old daughter.

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2007 Downtown Days: Ladder 1 Welcome Entrance



2007-10-13 - Burkesville ST, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.

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2007 Downtown Days: Parking lot transformed to playfield



2007-10-13 - W. Fortune St., Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
The REED & FORTUNE STREET PARKING LOT was transformed into a corn toss tournament arena, a play ground for an inflatable playground and as the staging ground for the Bank of Columbia robbery re-enactment, during Downtown Days 2007.

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2007 Downtown Days: First of shady characters arrives



2007-10-13 .
BO HORSTMAN of Columbia was one of the first "suspicious characters" to arrive in town to take part in the the Green River Cowboys and Guntown Mountain re-enactment of the the James-Younger Gang's robbery of the Bank of Columbia. His mount is "Custer."

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2007 Downtown Days: Harrison Moss, Raymond Atwood



2007-10-13 .
NOBODY ENJOYS DOWNTOWN DAYS More than knife traders. Harrison Moss, left, with Raymond Atwood, Knifley, the first visitor of the day to his :Case knives and more booth on the Burkesville-Jamestown Street quadrant of the Square. Harrison Moss and his son Matthew are partners in the knife business for the past 10-12 years. Besides Case knives, he trades in the German blades: Boker, Rooster & Hen, and German Eye, and is just a bit partial to the German knives, he says. Downtown Days is more than trying to make a small profit, he says. It's just a good chance to meet people.

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2007 Downtown Days: Chasity Yarberry, Jada Coomer



2007-10-13 - Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
CHASITY YARBERRY, left, and JADA COOMER handled the registration booth for Renaissance Columbia's Corn Toss Tournament at Downtown Days 2007.

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2007 Downtown Days: Getting in early practice



2007-10-13 - Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
HAROLD BURTON WAITS HIS TURN AS DONNIE FORD gets in a practice toss before the tournament began. In the background is Funtime Bouncers' set-up man Jordan Dean, who had the first of three inflatables ready for the kiddoes early Saturday morning.

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2007 Downtown Days: The gang makes its get away



2007-10-13 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo By Shirley Noel.
Guns Blazing the robbers leave a dying man and shocked citizenry in Columbia as they head clockwise around the Square to exit on Burkesville Street in the 2007 edition of the re-enactment by the Green River Cowboys and the Guntown Moutain gunmen. The re-enactment, at noon today, Saturday, October 13, 2007, was, as always, the exacting highlight of Downtown Days. The engrossing, well researched narrative for the show was written by Guntown Mountain owner Stanley Lawson of the Tabor Community of Adair County.

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2007 Downtown Days: Green River Cowboys riding in



2007-10-13 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo By Shirley Noel.
Shirley Noel wrote: "Enjoyed the day in Columbia today and thought I would send a picture of my son, Stephen Noel, and Barry Jones. Stephen is on black horse and Barry on the Palomino.Such a beautiful day."

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2007 Downtown Days: Robber Cases the Square



2007-10-14 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo By Shirley Noel.
SHIRLEY NOEL captioned this photo: "Stephen Noel riding around courthouse just before the bank robbery - checking things out."

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