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2007 Christmas Wonderland at Knifley: Album
Click Read More for visit to Album for a Story in Progresss about the 2007 Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce Home Exterior Decorations Contest.
And a reminder: Don't wait for the story and photos to be posted. We encourage you to go now. The lights are on now. They are programmed to go off at 9:30pm. Though the pictures Mrs. Knifley let us take are wonderful, nothing can do justice to seeing the actual displays at 275 J. Knifley Road, Knifley, KY (Columbia, KY mail address).
Scoll down for pictures being added. Comments, tributes, anecdotes about this remarkable Adair County artist and Christmas Wonderland creator, Garneetia Knifley, are welcome while the story is being written. -Ed Waggener.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: Santa going up on roof
2007-12-21 - Garneetia Knifley Christmas wonderland, Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
OLD SANTA LOOKS PRETTY CLEVER going up the the roof on top of his elves, at Garnettia's Christmas Wonderland at Knifley, KY, but once up there, he was in for a big surprise. The whole story can be seen during the Christmas season/ Visitors are welcome by the park's creator, the only person one could ever meet happier than Santa Claus, who personally greets visitors with refreshments. Make plenty of time for Knifley and Garneetia Knifley's elaborate display of lights, nativity scenes, and Christmas whimsy, all handcrafted, at 275 J. Knifley Road, (Columbia mail address) but the Knifley Community. Highly recommended by all who've seen it. The displays are programmed to be lighted until 9:30pmCT.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: Santa gone off the roof
2007-12-21 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
SANTA GOT HIMSELF INTO A PICKLE on the the other side of the roof, but he'll get up and continue spreading cheer throughout the world, just as Garnettia Knifley, the creator of Adair County's most magical Christmas Wonderland, spreads happiness throughout her world. With her above is Nosey, the most aptly named, bossy fellow you'll ever meet. Visitors are welcome to drive through the scenes at 275 J. Knifley Road, about a mile north of KY 76, via Eastridge Cemetery Road. Back to the front of the house
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: The Reason for the Season
2007-12-21 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
This APPROACH TO THE CHRISTMAS WONDERLAND AT KNIFLEY, KYis grand, but barely gives a hint of all that Garneetia Knifley has constructed with her own hands, but it does proclaim why she built it: To spread happiness, and the real Reason for the Season, the Birth of Christ.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: Joy to the World
2007-12-21 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
JOY TO THE WORLD. A wonderful band of angels are silently singing Joy to the World. Except for the soft music of the wind chimes, visitors to Garnettia Knifley's Christmas Wonderland at Knifley are blessed with the luxury of internal music. There's a Free Spirit quality about the place which reflects the nature of the woman who created it. Visitors go at their own pace, along whatever path their notions take them, with music from inside their own souls. The owner is on the premises, ready to share stories and entertain and imbue some holiday spirit, but that's voluntary--the Knifley commuity way.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
2007-12-21 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
The ART WITH JESUS AS A SHEPHERD would be compelling even in a neutral background, but it is an unforgettably classic scene in this scene Garnettia Knifley composed against the seasons greens and the reds of poinsettias and Christmas bow against the white trimmed red siding of her garage.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: Toyshop Village
2007-12-21 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
The TOYSHOP VILLAGE is built with magical kid-pleasing buildings and figures, but central to the theme of Christmas is the magic village's church, with the Cross of Jesus high over its steeple. The village was created by Garnettia Knifley of Knifley, KY.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: Kentucky cardinal
2007-12-21 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
A KENTUCKY CARDINAL sawn by Garnettia Knifley, roosts on a fence post. Around the fields, in the distance, Mrs. Knifley has strung thousands of lights. But don't ask her to put a number on them. She's not into tallies and totals, she just does.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: Santa in love
2007-12-22 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
EVERY CORNER OF GARNETTIA KNIFLEY'S Christmas Wonderland at Knifley is busy, but none has more than this one, with a Christmas goose, Santa stealing a kiss under mistletoe, heavenly angels, cheery snowmen, and almost out of site, that wascally wabbit. Everythiing is handmade and handpainted by Garnettia Knifley.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley: Barn Eave Angels
2007-12-22 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
BARN EAVE ANGELS are eight feet long. They were completely handmade and by Garnettia Knifley, but she didn't affix them to the barn eave. That took the steady hand of Timmy Humphress aboard a front end loader. They part of the winning 2007 Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce Home Exterior Christmas Decoration Contest display at 275 J. Knifley Road, Knifley, KY, by Garnettia Knifley. It can be seen tonight and through the Christmas season until the lights go off at 9:30pmCT.
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2007 Christmas at Knifley:
2007-12-22 - Knifley, KY - Photo By Dr. Adam Rogers.
GREETING VISITORS and there to tell them Goodbye, is this guy. "He's here all year around," Garnettia Knifley says. "He's just as much a part of the place as me, and Tipsy and Nosey, my cats." All are part of the Christmas entertainment at Adair County's grandest holiday scene.
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