Changing face, Downtown Columbia: New grill, new awning 2014-12-27 - Fountain Plaza, Downtown Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The 100 octant of the Public Square is looking better to start 2015. There's a new awing up for the Mexican Restaurant, Grimsley's Jewelry is thriving and has a wonderful window display, as usual. Mackie Jo Pennington has announced that she her store, the blue trim one, next to Grimsley's, the Columbia-based chain jewelry store, promises be much more active this year. This past year was good to the Fountain Area, as well. Public Benches and Tables new tables, from Fabco in Columbia, were installed, and canopies are included. One can't yet get a Corona with a meal here, as one can in Campbellsville, KY, but maybe that will change in the coming year. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Santa was especially good to especially good little boys 2014-12-27 - Casey Creek, KY - Photo by Frances Salyers. "Merry Christmas to Daril; Santa was very good to him this year," his wife, Frances Salyers writes. Santa Claus delivered this play pretty to Daril, for being such a good boy this year. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

A Christmas Message in Miller Park 2014-12-27 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith, Operations Manger, Shoreline Communications, FM 92.7 and FM 99.9.. One of the wonderful Christmas Lights of 2014 scenes is this one by Larry Smith, from Miller Park on the north side of Campbellsville, KY. "Miller Park is a wonderful place," Larry Smith said, "it's a reminder of one of South Central Kentucky's great leaders, Mayor Robert Miller," he said. "He was the towering figure of Taylor County in the 20th Century, and his impact went far beyond Campbellsville. For instance, there's a Robert Miller Drive, named in his honor, at the entrance to Lindsey Wilson's Sports Park." Smith noted too, that Miller's wife, Berniece (Chapman) Miller (d. 2000) grew up on Jamestown Hill in Columbia. His life is a reminder that often, despite historic and progressive administratives, a fickle electorate spurns its greatest. "Mayor Miller just happened to be in office when Fruit of the Loom pulled up stakes and turned its back on us. Mayor Miller did as much as anyone to keep them here, but he lost for the first time in the next election." - CM. See also: Robert L. Miller, Taylor Co., KY (1927-2011) Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Up close at the Historic Adair County Courthouse 2014-12-27 - 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The Front Door of the Historic Adair County Courthouse according to research by Mike Watson, Adair County Historian. The year 2014 was a good one for the icon of Adair County. It was a year when an anchor tenant, Columbia Controls System, Kentucky's premier jail security company, moved in. It as a year when Citizen Mike Harris paid for new paint for the the benches, the lamp posts and the doors and more, to make it spiffy. It was a year when the Adair Heritage Association's "Ye Olde Christmas Gift Shop," proved it has a life of its own, with record setting crowds. And it was a year when the building proved its value as adjunct to another Adair County institution proved, it has a life of its own, the delightful and highly successful Farmers Market on the Square. 2015 ought to see more impressive gains, it can be imagined. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

What's looking back in winter 2014-12-27 - From Five Star, 802 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. There is an ocean side room in a hotel, bayside window in a restaurant, equivalent at the Five Star on Jamestown Street - now serving $2.099 gasoline to become a very, very busy place. This view of near Downtown Columbia, over Office Park, has a central focus of the Columbia-Union Presbyterian Church - up close and from this distance one of Adair County's most beautiful. Directly to the right, the tall two story structure is a two and one half story house with a wonderful history, and a view not only of Downtown Columbia, but of Upper Jamestown Street as well. In historical perspective, the view from the Traylor House toward the photographer would have been, in the early decades of the 1940s, "out in the country." So far, in fact, that JIM, if memory is correct, tells of the time the Columbia Fire Department refused to put out a fire at the location because it was outside their jurisdiction - .8 tenths of a mile for the historic Adair County's Courthouse's Front Door according to no less an authority than Mike Watson. The photo is just one reason - please don't boo or throw things at me - why winter is my favorite season to see things. From the ground, where I like to stay, so much is revealed about the lay of the land and what's been hiding in the trees. Winter is a time to gain perspective. - EW. Paired photol; See also - Up close at the Historic Adair County Courthouse Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Dalton Coffey, Adair County, KY (1926-2014)< 2014-12-26 - 200 Campbellsville Street, Collumbia, KY - Photo from Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, Columbia, KY. Dalton Coffey, Adair County, KY (1926-2014) Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Red Brick Center for the performing arts? 2014-12-26 - Burkesville Side, Red Brick Recording Studio - Photo by Ed Waggener. Couldn't figure this one out. It look like five couples of phantom shadow dancers. Photo taken Friday morning, December 26, 2014, at the time a beautiful sun shiny day - reminiscent of the days in 1977, before the Inauguration of Judge James Brock and Mayor Coy Downey a few days later in January 1978, when Collumbia was he center of attention in all the Commonwealth. Inauguration Day was beautiful, too. But in less than a week, it snowed and there came one of the coldest winters on record. There was talk of a new ice age, because the scenario repeated for two more winters. Anyone remember? - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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