Jordan Knifley earns Mechanical Engineering Degree at WKU 2013-05-13 - Diddle Arena, 1605 Avenue of Champions, Bowling Green, KY - Photo by Katy Wallace. Jordan Knifley of Columbia, KY, graduated at Western Kentucky University with a degree in mechanical engineering Saturday evening, May 11, 2013. He is pictured here with his mother Stephanie Wilkerson and Rob Wilkerson. He will be the employed at the family business, Assisted Transportation Systems here in Columbia. He will be in charge of new conversion designs and compliance. Rob Wilkerson Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Flowers: The perfect clematis on E Fortune Street, Columbia, KY 2013-05-13 - E Fortune Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Each time we pass the Janes Complex on East Fortune Street, Columbia, KY, my favorite mother in law comments on what a pretty place it is. This year, the clematis on the dinner bell post seems to have gotten just the right amount sunlight and rainfall. It's a magnificent show of color. On Mother's Day, Mrs. Marcum thought how much her mother, Addie Turner Leftwich would have enjoyed the scene. She loved everything lavender and purple. - EW Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Lost declawed cat found on Corbin's Bend Road 2013-05-12 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Kathy Powell. Large lost declawed house cat by Wildlife Management Area on Corbin's Bend Road, Green River Lake State Park, Adair County, KY Please contact madp04@gmail.com or Dennis Powell at 502-338-5984 Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

There's a special bond between all mothers 2013-05-12 - Sugarfoot Farm Rescue, 860 Sparksville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Peg Schaeffer. Horses at Sugarfoot Farm Rescue are great parents. Motherhood is not something you learn in books. It just comes naturally. If you have a child, a puppy, a foal, a kitten - you just know automatically how to love and care for it. And that's what you do. People have more help than the animals do. You go to classes, you have a coach, and after the birth your family is there for you. - Peg Schaeffer Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Rachel Varble, a major part of Adair's rich literary history 2013-05-12 - Columbia, KY - Photo from collection of Mike Watson. Mike Watson, Adair County, historian prizes the artifact in the center panel most of his extensive Rachel Varble collection, because of the inscription, from the Harrodsburg, KY author to Nancy Berley, who aided Varble so much in research for Varble's historical fiction novel, Jane Clemens a biographical account of the life of the mother of Samuel Langhorne Clemens - the mother of Mark Twain. Nancy Montgomery Berley lived in the house on Greensburg Street now occupied by Robert & Mikki Flowers. Berley wrote, with historian Ruth Paull Burdette, "The Longhunters of Skinhouse Branch." at right is a photo of the dusk jacke to Varble's Pepys' Boy, also from the collection of Mike Watson. Mr. Watson will be among the vendors at the 10am-3pmCT/11am-4pmET, Saturday, June 1, 2013, 2nd Annual Book Fair at the Historic Adair County Courthouse, 500 Public Square, Columbia, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Theodore O'Hara Markers, Frankfort Cemetery - I 2013-05-12 - Frankfort, KY - Photo by Mike Watson. Theodore O'Hara may have penned stanzas of "Bivouac of the Dead" in Columbia, KY. There's no proof, Adair County Historian Mike Watson says, but adds, "We wonder. . . " The photo above is of a marker in Frankfort Cemetery, where the famed poet is interred. Paired Photo See also Markers to Theodore O'Hara, Frankfort Cemetery - I Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Markers to Theodore O'Hara, Frankfort Cemetery - I 2013-05-12 - Frankfort, KY - Photo by Mike Watson. Theodore O'Hara may have penned stanzas of "Bivouac of the Dead" in Columbia, KY. There's no proof, Adair County Historian Mike Watson says, but adds, "We wonder. . . " The photo above is of a marker in Frankfort Cemetery, where the famed poet is interred. Paired Photo See also Markers to Theodore O'Hara, Frankfort Cemetery - II Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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