Happy Birthday, Columbia, KY! 2014-07-04 - Historic Courthouse, 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Doyle Lloyd. This Doyle Lloyd classic Independence Day photo was first posted on ColumbiaMagazine.com one year ago on the Fourth of July, 2013. Seen in the ColumbiaMagazine group on Flickr. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Larry Smith: Hot Air Balloons at Taylor Co. HS 2014-07-03 - Taylor County High School - Photo by Larry Smith, The Big Dawg, 99.9 FM radio. The Hot Air Balloons - This year, unlike July 3, a year ago, we've got perfect weather for the balloon glow to kick off Campbellsville's fabulous Fouth of July - the biggest Independence day celebration in Kentucky. Thousands of people will be here tomorrow. The photo was taken at Taylor County High School tonight, July 3, 2014. - Larry Smith, Operations Manager, Shoreline Communications. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

KY Outdoors Afield: Green River above GRL great Fishing Area 2014-07-03 - Green River above GRL, Adair County, KY KY - Photo by Lee McClellan, KY Afield Outdoors. The Green River at Green River Wildlife Management Area Access in Adair County is the last access point before Green River Lake. Floats on the Green River above the lake combine a unique landscape with excellent fishing for channel catfish and black bass. Lee McClellan, Associate Editor, KY Afield Outdoors Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

The Historic Adair County Courthouse Clock 2014-07-03 - Clocktower, Historic Adair County Courthouse, Columbia, KY - Photo by Letisha Paris. Tisha Paris and son Gary Crawford climbed to the topmost room, in the Historic Adair County Courthouse, 500 Public Square, to discover this huge clock mechanism and some great views out the windows in the clockfaces. The openings were designed to allow keepers of the clock to manually adjust the hands. It was the lack of an opening which prevented, some 65 years ago, the installation of glass faces, which could have been illuminated. In recent memory, Carl Hutchison was keeper of the clock for several decades. He was paid the princely sum of $50 for the service. His unpaid assistant, Joe Moore, helped for many years, and, to this day, has a huge store of knowledge about the courthouse, the clocks, and the tower. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Selfie: Photographic proof of scaling Columbia's 'Everest' 2014-07-03 - 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Letisha Paris. This selfie is photographic proof that 'Little Gary' Crawford and his mother, Tisha Paris, where among the elite number who can claim to have visited the belfry atop the Adair County Courthouse, just under the Historic Clocktower. The bell can be seen in the background. The intrepid climbers went all the way to the top, and into the belltower itself, this afternoon, July 3, 2014. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Quilts on the Move: Bank of Columbia 2014-07-03 - 130 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by CM Staff. Quilts on the Move. This display of quilts is in the continuously changing window display at the Downtown Main office of the Bank of Columbia, it is part of the Columbia-Adair County Tourism Commissions to create quilt displays throughout Adair County over July 4, 2014 weekend. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Quilts on the move, from Cadiz & Owensboro to Columbia, KY 2014-07-03 - 130 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by CM Staff . The Quilts on the Move July 4th weekend, spearheaded in Adair County by the Columbia-Adair County Tourism Commission, is quickly adding displays. This one, seen through the reflections, is in the law office of Durham & Zornes, and includes three quilts, two from Ellen Zornes maternal grandmother in Cadiz, KY, and a third one from her paternal grandmother in Owensboro, KY. The three women reflected in the center of the photo are Adair Heritage President Ellen Zornes who created the display; Katie Durham, ACHS '14, a Durham & Zornes employee, who is bound for the University of Kentucky this fall; and D&Z office manager Vickie Thompson. The fuzzy headed photographer - so named by the late Bill Beard - holding a camera is from CM (though some may see that image as one of the late Mayor Reeves Kerbow eating a hamburger and approaching 'his' pinball machine, which it could have been when the building was the G & M Grill) and the wonderful reflected back drop including the Fountain, Mouser Real Estate, the Bardin Building, Murrell Burton's Burton Real Estate & Auction, and the Stanziano Law office. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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