Progress report: Where Red Nixon is on Red Brick Studio 2012-09-01 - 200 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Red Nixon, the general contractor for Mike Harris' Red Brick Studio project, now has the front enclosed with glass, and the front door hung. Soon, crook, period lighting fixtures from Jeffries Lighting will be hung in front, the brick will be painted red, a canopy will be added, and black trim will give the project its distinctive look. Mike Harris expects the construction project to be complete in as little as two more months - with the already booked, by partner - Danny Bailey - first recordings underway in November. Photo taken August 30, 2012. Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Scenic Adair Co., KY: A pleasant, primal scene, above Inroad 2012-09-01 - Off Dug Hill, KY 704, above Inroad, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener. It wasn't meant to be more than a place setting snap a little signal on the camera to remind me of where I'd been, to mark where other pretty pictures were taken. But it brings back so many memories of a wonderful yesteryear, of dirt roads and shifting dust trails leaving patterns for imaginings. It's a private passage - a logging or oil road I guess - off the top of Dug Hill on KY 704. Above Inroad, above the magical lands of the Old Turners, my Adair County ancestors, and that, maybe, is what drew me to it. Maybe, though, it's just the need to explore in all of us, best said by Autis Brockman of Knifley, KY, "I never saw a new road without wondering what's down it." - Linda Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mary's House Progress August 30, 2012: Footers poured 2012-09-01 - 550 Beechtop Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Fran Neat. When Michael Meyer of Mercy Lane Construction and Danny Fudge of Fudge and Son Construction shot the grade with a transient, they discovered that there was not enough slope to the land for a bank house as was originally planned. However, Mary's house will now be constructed above ground using the exact same floor plan. AboveThanks to beautiful, dry weather David Abrell of Abrell's Poured Walls and his crew dug and poured the footer for Mary's house Thursday of this week. Pictured are left to right James Willis, David Abrell, and Allen Absher. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

David Abrell digs in at Mary's House site 2012-09-01 - 550 Beechtop Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Fran Neat. David Abrell digs footer: After Mike Meyer and Danny Fudge determined that there wasn't enough slope at the site of Mary's House to build the home as a bank house, work actually was advanced. Above,David Abrell of Abrell's Poured Walls is serious as he digs in for Mary's House. David and his crew began the actual building process as they dug and poured the footers for the house on Thursday of this week. - Fran Neat Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Epicurean Kentuckian: Mediterranean Salad, in Columbia, KY 2012-09-01 - 212 Public Square, Columbia, KY - Photo EK photo. Somehow Cafe on the Square takes signature dishes for other restaurants and makes them better in Columbia, KY than anywhere else. Such was the case with their Reuben sandwich - better than Reuben sandwich in Louisville, Indianapolis or New York - so many diners told us, a few saying it was better than any sandwich they'd ever tried. Now there's this Mediterranean salad. And we have it on the authority of two of Columbia's two food critics, who recommended it, that it's as good as their favorite Greek restaurants in Louisville - Kentucky's other Mediterranean-like city. Bruce and Patsy Wilson wouldn't say it was any better, but that it was as good as - and that should be good enough for most of us not so well traveled as they. It's also healthy, he noted; healthy enough to neutralize any of the better than New York, New York, New York Style Cheesecake they bake at the Cafe on the Square, and maybe capable of neutralizing the wickedly rich triple layer chocolate mousse cake, if one is following Bruce Wilson's healthy Neutralization diet. - Ed Waggener Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Adair Co., KY September 3-28, 2012 Menu 2012-08-31 - 1204 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY - Photo from Dayna Feese, Assistant Food Service Director. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Fay McKinley 2012-08-31 - 275 Country Club Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Lee Waggener Grider. Sibs and inlaws of Fay Waggener McKinley, lower left honored her with a birthday eve dinner at Wm. T's at the Pines at Lindsey Wilson last evening, August 30, 2012. Lower right Sister in law Glenda Waggener; back row, from left brothers Ralph Waggener and Ed Waggener; sister in law Linda Waggener; sister Annette Richards, organizer of the dinner; and Fay's brother in law, Jim Richards. Sister Jean Waggener Cravens, Indianapolis, IN, was not present. Also present, but not in photo, were Fay McKinley's daughter, Mitzi Bault and her husband Ricky Bault and Fay's great grandson Jacob Cowan; Lee Grider and her children, Joseph Grider, Zack Grider, and Emma Grider; and Doug Waggener and daughters, Jade and Sydney Waggener. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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