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A Day Trip of Bucket List proportions - In just over 4 hours To the Knobs and the Bluegrass beyond. In a 'short cut' to the McKinney Bomb site, a hastily organized trip covered KY 206, the re-emergent village of Creston, Tennessee Ridge and Ellisburg, heritage lands, and a visit to a destination cafe in a Stanford, a model of downtown revitalization. Then and back though Liberty, another city whose downtown is loved - and it shows in so many new ways. Click on headline for story with photo(s) By Alan W. Reed The time had come. A spur of the moment phone call launched three Adair countians - author Chris Bennett, Ed Waggener and me - on a long-talked about road trip up 206 through Casey County with the destination being McKinney and Hall's Gap, headwaters of the Green River. Ed Waggener gave protracted history lecture on what he'd been learning about once thriving Creston, which is now a virtual renaissance village and is thriving once again, as we approached the "Y" - the convergence of KY 206 and KY 90. The role of guide changed frequently after that. Across Tennessee Ridge Our journey took us north off KY 70E onto KY 1547, driving across Tennessee Ridge, into the heart of the once famous apple growing region that helped make Casey County famous for its festivals. This is the high country. We passed the vacant fire tower on Button Knob, where binocular equipped fire spotters spent many boring hours looking for white smoke in the 50's and 60's. Eventually we intercepted KY 49, turned north - winding down Steele's knob, and between many other "no name" knobs. At Jacktown, a turn north toward Reed heritage country At Jacktown, located equidistant between Liberty and Lebanon, we turned east, onto county road 78, which runs along-side Little South Fork of the Rolling Fork most of the way to Hustonville. We stopped for a minute at my grandfather's old farm and the run-down two-room school my dad attended, old Rocky Ford School. A shortcut across Short Pike - and the outskirts of McKinney At Hustonville we found our way to Short Pike, which took us just to the "outskirts" of McKinney, home of the Depot Restaurant. As is often the case on spur of the moment trips such as this, the destination eatery was closed. But Ed Waggener had a better plan. We would simply drive on in to Stanford to relax at a favorite restaurant, the Bluebird Cafe, in a small city that could well serve as a model for renovation in downtown Columbia. The Bluebird was Fried Green Tomato heaven The food and service far exceeded expectations. The Bluebird offered fried green tomatoes as an appetizer which make a meal for one of us, a turkey club which met the exacting taste of another, and sticking to the fried green tomatoes theme, a BLT with the "T" fried green again. This was clearly a throwback trip - through the knobs to KY; the land of swinging bridges and life "across the creek". The original destination was McKinney, site of a highway marker for a downed bomber during the height of the Cold War. This trip turned into much more as we made our way back via the "main" roads.See Chris Bennett's B-58 Hustler Memorial Website. It was a trip barely touching the Bluegrass, but into to the best of that region, Stanford and Lincoln County, and through some spectacular knob country scenery down below in my home county, which is the only county in Kentucky complete in the Knobs. We passed the turnoff to the Columbia Gas Transmission station at Clementsville, the site of a world's first in Casey County - the first ever use of a jet engine in a gas pipeline. I remember that from my growing up days in Liberty. The Lights of Liberty, a revitalization and a symbol We also caught another glimpse of the steady transformation of Liberty. We saw the Lights of Liberty, at the site of the old Kentuckian Theatre on Hustonville Street in Liberty, where I held a part time job as a projectionist, occasionally sharing duties with a legend in the projection room, Clyde Goodin, who held the post for over 30 years. The theatre is alive again, with a full schedule of movies, in a showplace cinema. And, while Campbellsville has a a multiple screen theatre, it's a mile from downtown; Lights of Liberty is in the middle of Liberty, and is the only revived movie theatre in it's original location in a downtown in region which encompasses Columbia and surrounding counties. It was time for serious discussions of haunted houses, alleged alien abductions, taxes and politics. What a great wrap-up to a long holiday week. It was a road trip of bucket list proportion. - Alan W. Reed This story was posted on 2013-12-28 16:52:06
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