Special News, Ads for SUNDAY with CM, MAY 8, 2011

News Quote of the Week

"This is academics, this is the core. This is what it's all about." - Columbia Mayor Mark D. Harris

to the Columbia City Council, urging support for the Adair County Academic Teams' trip to La Crosse, WI, in 2011 for International Competition in Future Problem Solving. The council responded, May 2, 2011, by doubling its stipend for the group to $2,000. This is leadership. -CM

Posting in progress. Clicks to favorite Sunday with CM for May 8, 2011, columnist
Plus selected favorite stories and maybe some links to albums, and to news from the past week and beyond. Sunday with CM for May 8, 2011 and your favorite writers + important news stories:

• 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 V: Unthaw, fanger, and more
• Chuck Hinman: .IJMA No. 174: May Basket Tradition

About Books. Book Reviews. Culture & Enlightenment

• Tom Chaney: The Unseen Savage of the White Man's Heart. A review of former Kentucky laureate Richard Taylor's Simon Girty, a poetical novel which gives the Kentucky anti-hero a new shake
• Rev. Joey N. Welsh: Another Angle Rev. Joey N. Welsh: A different kind of Mint Julep. For Derby Day. For Mint Juleps.

Divers notes of historical import

• "Jim." Arbitration of Ancient terms: My-Cola or My Coca wherein orther unmuddies the waters
• "Jim": Local history. 100 Years Ago: Didn't need Peedy Phipps telling us: There's Rain! Almost a deja vu all over again of the Gradyville Flood of June 7, 1907? The Adair County monsoon season of May 3, 1911, 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.

A Brief History of Early Cinema in Columbia, Ky., c. 1903 to late 1922

• Introduction:(Part 1 of 6)
• (Part 2 of 6) Feature Presentation (2nd reel): The Parlor Circle, a first-class picture show (Jan. 1912 - June 1915)
• (Part 3 of 6) Feature presentation (4th reel): Ascension of the Parlor Circle (July 1915 - June 1916)

Poet's Corner

• Robert Stone: Poetry: A sonnet: A strange and distant former home
• Robert H. Stone. Haiku. Haiku written March and April 2011 by Robert Stone
• BJ Fudge Adair Co. National Limerick
  BJ Fudge has inimitably expressed The Adair County Way
  never more shown than in the past week, in a catchy limerick first posted 2010-05-16 -CM:
  

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  Adair Limerick
  by Billy Joe Fudge

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  Adair's a populace of givers
  So much so that it gives one shivers.

  Yes we share what we own
  And we give to the bone

  From money right down to our livers.

  To see other Billy Joe Fudge poems, enter his name in the searchbox.

Special News Stories, Editorials

• Barbara Armitage: Commentary (2011-05-07) The generosity of a small town Guest commentary we liked on the Adair County Way.
• Ed Waggener News. Columbia City Council, Report, May 3, 2011
• Linda Waggener. Editorial. Good things usually have good people, good works behind them

Sunday Messages

• Pastor Paul A. Fryman, Pastor, State Street UMC, Bowling Green, KY : Living to look like Jesus

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 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 Co., KY names appear on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial/i>
• Cumberland Co., KY name appears on Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• 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 2011-05-08 03:48:23