Lilac along the route of the Crocus-to-Montpelier highway 2016-04-09 - Crocus, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM photo. This lilac bush - in full bloom along the designated-by-Jim Crocus-to-Montpelier highway story retracing a development over 100 years ago - doesn't really fit in. Or does it make the point more than anything. If lilacs do nothing else, for most of us they bring back yesteryear. - LW Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Ready for Antiques Road Show? Pay telephone box at Park 2016-04-09 - Columbia Park at Adair Co., KY Fairground, 413 Fairground Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM photo. Are there any of these left in operation anymore? Does anyone remember how long ago this one was operational. Time was Telephone Booths or Boxes were almost everywhere, with booths on at the corner of Greensburg & the Public Square and at Leo's motel across from the Circle R on Russell Road provided access to the outside world and shelter from the weather. More than cellphones have caused their demise. And, so far as we can find out online, efforts to convert them to other purposes, such as wi-fi and recharging stations, haven't worked, either. Photo 5 Apr 2016. - CM Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Wildflower: Yellow Trillium (Trillium luteum) 2016-04-09 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Photo by Pen. According to the Wikipedia entry Trillium_Luteum occurs in parts of Kentucky as well as in Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, but CM has never documented the flower here before. Wildflower in the CM 7-county region indicate that other many other species and varieties of trillium are already brightening shady, damp forest floors. Today, Saturday, April 9, 2016, is an excellent trillium sighting day, despite the cold. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Guests at International Festival sample Arroz con Pollo dish 2016-04-09 - Norma & Glenn Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Sabine Eastham, LWC . Felix Casa del Valle, not pictured graduated in May 2015 with a Bachelor's Degree in Communications. He was a wrestler in his college career and returned to Lindsey Wilson exclusively for this event. He and his Mom, Mrs. Berta P. Wyenberg, above, offered the very popular Arroz con Pollo dish, Spanish Rice with Chicken. - Sabine Eastham Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

LWC students from Sweden play Japanese game Nagashi Somen 2016-04-09 - Norma & Glenn Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY. - Photo from Sabine Eastham, Lindsey Wilson College. Mikaela Brewitz and Emma Skaremo, Lindsey Wilson College soccer players and students from Sweden playing Nagashi Somen, a Japanese game. - Sabine Eastham Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Retracing Crocus-to-Montpelier Hwy: The Miller/Spickard House 2016-04-09 - Crocus, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, CM photo. The 105 year old Spickard - or Miller - House begins Jim's update on history of a Main Road in Adair County, a big advance for transportation one hundred years ago. It was built in 1911. It is considered by many one of the most beautiful homes in Adair County. - Photo 8 Apr 2016. For an earlier look back at the the famous house, see: Built 100 years ago: Miller house at Crocus. - EW. To continue with Jim's retracing of the significance of the Crocus-to-Montpelier transportation breakthrough 100 years ago, click on Read More. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Crocus-to-Montpelier Hwy: Starting point, Pop. 16 2016-04-09 - Adair-Russell Co. Line, Crocus Road, KY 1313 - Photo by Linda Waggener, CM photo. This is the starting point for the Crocus-to-Montpelier Historic Highway progress story in the accompany article by Jim. Though the road above, beckons one to continue south to Bryan and Historic Creelsboro in Russell County, KY, this is the point to reverse course and retrace. The roads now best considered Slow Roads, but there will be a smooth ride all the way to Montpelier. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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