Sunday guest above the house 2020-12-29 - Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. Skies were clear this past sunny Sunday and temperatures were mild, that's why both the Hawk and I were out in the yard enjoying it. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The view from Mark Twain's father's office 2020-12-29 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. This view of the historic Adair County Courthouse clock tower is from the window in the Field House where John Marshall Clemens, local attorney, practiced. Clemens lived in one room and sometimes saw clients in an adjoining front room. He married Jane Lampton, of Columbia, and they lived in the rented rooms for some time, perhaps as much as a year. The Clemenses became the parents of a family of children that included Samuel Langhorne, best known to many as 'Mark Twain.' Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Spock was part of the welcome home reunion 2020-12-29 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Robin Smith. Steve Smith's dog Spock was among the small group welcoming him home after a near-death experience with COVID-19 which kept him in the hospital for 54 days. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Beans and Cornbread 2020-12-28 - EK Kitchen - Photo by Pen. Comfort food for a winter evening. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Home, a place Steve Smith wasn't sure he'd see again 2020-12-28 - Adair County, KY - Photo by Robin Smith. Doctor's didn't give much hope that Steve Smith would make it through COVID-19 but after 54 days in the Medical Center in Bowling Green, he was allowed to come home, on oxygen, exercising great care to avoid the possibility of exposure to germs. His family is praising God for the extraordinary gift. He is pictured here walking into his Green Hills home in Columbia. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Teacher and pets in class with students and pets 2020-12-28 - Adair County, KY - Photo from family collection. Deb Waddell, Adair County Middle School science teacher and President of the Adair County Education Association, is pictured here "in class" - a virtual classroom - sharing her pets with her students who also share their pets from their homes with the class. In their virtual classroom experiences of 2020, she says she has met many of her student's pets, including guinea pigs, cats and dogs, and a horse. Helping Deb with this class are her dogs, from left: Jake, Sammie, Lola on top, and Belle. There is one more dog, Ellie, not pictured, and five cats. "Yeah," she says, "that’s how I rumble. Lol." A few of the students for this class were: Gary Parish, Malana Burton, Savannah Pearson, Emily Hart, Reese Bardin, Ryder Chapman, and Crystal Mendoza. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Good Morning from Campbellsville 2020-12-28 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry J. Smith, General Manager, The Big Dawg, FM 99.9 radio. The view on Main Street in downtown Campbellsville early on Monday, December 28, 2020. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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