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Plus selected favorite stories and maybe some links to albums, and to news from the past week and beyond. Sunday with CM for May 1, 2011 and your favorite writers + important news stories:There were devastating floods one year ago

The Corresponding Sunday, one year ago, May 2, 2010 was a day of devastating floods in South Central Kentucky. Most of the Sunday with CM's 27 photos coverage that day was concentrated on coverage of the flood in the 7-County CM area. To see the coverage that day, click to SUNDAY with CM, May 2, 2010 for the flood news of that day and to see the slide show of photos. To see the following days flood news, change the date in the "To View Another Day" box. If you are a first time user for "Reading CM as a Daily Newspaper," give us a call at (270) 384-2730. We'll try to help, if time is available. We appreciate all the help Readers are given by friends and especially, by libraries and country stores which help their patrons understand the Internet.

• Travel: Big Al, the Big Rig Trucker Big Rig Trucker: Big Al visits USS Texas in Houston Note: Photos. If you go. But no Eats Critique.
• Travel: Big Al.Big Al Owens standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona
• Tom Chaney: Tom Chaney No. R709: War: sex, and money
Billy Joe Fudge Kentucky Color: Reaching toward the heavens a sermon learned from from an old Hackberry tree
• Billy Joe Fudge: Great Wooded South Lexicon: Gob, passel and more
• Chuck Hinman: Chuck Hinman. IJMA No. 374-S: The Birds and the Bees
• Jim: Local history. 100 Years Ago: Didn't need Peedy Phipps telling us: There's Rain! A premonition, a preview of the Gradyville Flood of June 7, 1907, maybe? The Adair County monsoon season of May 3, 1903, was calamitous. The Baptists were building a church. Cemetery dues were only 50 cents, and the board of health announced a proscription on the washing of cuspidors in the Town Well.
• Linda Waggener. Editorial. Good things usually have good people, good works behind them
• Robert H. Stone. Haiku. Haiku written March and April 2011 by Robert Stone
• Rev. Joey N. Welsh: Another Angle Rev. Joey N. Welsh: A different kind of ceremony. For Derby Day. For Mint Juleps.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

A half scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be at The Center for Rural Development, 2292 S. Highway 27, 2011, Somerset, KY, from May 9-14, 2011 Adair and Russell County Lists are posted.

We'll be adding lists of Casey, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, and Taylor Countians who gave their all in the Vietnam War and whose names are on the wall, as received (or researched by ColumbiaMagazine). We hope to have a handy, printable list of Veterans from the Seven-County CM area, with Panel and Line Number for location on the Wall, before the arrival of the display May 9, 2011.

• Adair County names in article, "Joe Hare will take photos to Somerset, KY"
• Casey County names to be added
• Green County names to be added
• Metcalfe County names to be added
• Six Russell County names appear on Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Thanks to "Anonymous," for the research.
• Taylor County names to be added.

Special thanks to Joe Hare and Anonymous and Pen for Adair and Russell Co., KY, names. -CM

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This story was posted on 2011-05-01 03:50:02