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Monumental event occurred 106 years ago this week Lindsey-Wilson Training School opened its doors One hundred and six years ago this week, on Monday, January 4, 1904, one of the most monumental events in the history of Columbia and Adair County occurred: the doors of "the Lindsey-Wilson" Training School swung open for the first time and forever changed the city and county. Only two weeks later, the January 20, 1904 News announced over two hundred students hadalready matriculated and that others were expected. In the ensuing fivescore and six years, the school has made the most of good times and has always emerged stronger than ever from bad times - most notably, the Great Depression, a near removal to another city in the 1940s, and a near closing some decades later - and in the process, has immeasurably enriched and bettered the lives of South-central Kentuckians. "...[A]fter a brief sojourn to the Lindsey Wilson campus in June, 2009, my first real visit there in nearly twoscore years, a question kept niggling at the back of my mind: What would the early habitues of 'the Lindsay-Wilson' [as it frequently was called in the early days] think were they to view and roam the hilltop jewel of Columbia a century later? No one answer emerges, but the phrase 'awed wonderment' comes to mind.It seems only fitting to close with quote from the bully pulpit of the News [shortly after the Louisville Conference announced the school would indeed be built in Columbia] (October 8, 1902): 'Columbia has enthusiastically embraced the greatest opportunity that has ever been presented her. We have been intensely interested and are now supremely happy.'"(Quoted text from "From Hope to Hilltop, the Establishment of the Lindsey Wilson Training School, late 1899- early 1904"; used with permission.) This story was posted on 2010-01-08 11:13:20
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