Downtown Days Photo Contest: First Place 2025-10-15 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Joe Rogers. Judges awarded First Place in the 2025 Downtown Days Photo Contest to Joe Rogers' photo, Double R Farm "Sitting Cow", above. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Learning to make molasses, and pottery, at the Hadley place 2025-10-15 - Adair County, KY - Photo from Paige Nickel, Adair County Tourism Director. These young folks were learning all about the country art of making molasses at the homeplace of Kathy and Maxie Hadley last week. This picture shows they also enjoyed pottery making. The Hadleys are known for building and sharing farm ways and lifestyles of their ancestors. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Downtown Days 2025 - all cleaned up afterward 2025-10-15 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. A perfect celebration of Downtown Days 2025 was followed by a perfect cleanup and return to business around the Public Square in Columbia last weekend after the crowds were gone. By the end of the day Sunday all the littler had been removed, thanks to our city employees. Thanks to all involved in hosting and visiting! Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Downtown Days 2025 - Milltown Church singers 2025-10-15 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The Milltown Church Praise team drew many to the Public Square to hear and be inspired by their music on Saturday during Downtown Days 2025. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Travel: Trail to Mount Rogers 2025-10-15 - Grayson Highlands State Park, Mouth of Wilson, VA - Photo by Graham Waggener. The Appalachian Trail passes through Grayson Highlands State Park on the way to Mount Rogers, the highest natural point in Virginia. Most of the mountain is contained within the Lewis Fork Wilderness, while the entire area is part of the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, which itself is a part of the Jefferson National Forest. The summit is most easily accessed from Grayson Highlands State Park by following the Appalachian Trail southbound for 3.5 mi (5.6 km) to a blue-blazed trail leading to the summit, which is covered by trees and marked with four National Geodetic Survey triangulation station disks. (wikipedia, virginia.gov) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Professor Neace becomes Batman on Halloween 2025-10-15 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson University. Most of the time -- 364 days to be exact -- William Neace is a seemingly meek psychology professor at Lindsey Wilson University. But every Halloween, Neace dresses as the comic-book hero Batman to provide students with a lesson on why life should not always be so serious. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

From business award to announcement to completion 2025-10-14 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The history of the Don Franklin Ford family business was shared in 2022 when this photo was made; an announcement of the new building to come was presented to the City Council in 2023; and the new building is now open to the public on the Veterans Memorial Bypass. Family members in attendance at the annual Columbia Adair Chamber of Commerce banquet in 2022 were, from left, in back: Alanna, Eddie Jr (holding Ethan), Ben, Nathaniel, Daniel, and Don Jr. In front, from left are: Eddie (holding Eli), Barbara, Dan and Melinda. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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