Silent City 2011: Lee Ann Jessee as Kitty Ann Frazier 2011-10-25 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Lee Ann Jessee, Director of the Adair County Public Library, and veteran Silent City actress, stands inside the Frazier family plot and flawlessly delivered the story of this great family from Columbia's past. The Fraziers owned most of what is now Burkesville Street east to Frazier Avenue. Kitty Ann Frazier gave the land for the Columbia Presbyterian Church and the family figured prominently in the establishment of the M & F High School. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Silent City 2011: Joey Conn as Joseph F. Patteson 2011-10-25 - Columbia Cemetery, 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Lt. Joseph Conn portrayed his grandfather, Joseph F. Conn, founder of what is today Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Silent City 2011: Emmalee Baker as Laura B. Miller 2011-10-25 - Columbia City Cemetery, 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Emmalee Baker gave a tremendous performance in her first appearance in a Silent City production, portraying Laura B. Miller. Emmalee writes this about her ghost, "She was born into a prominent family of Adair County. Her father was J.H. Miller and her mother was Louisa F. Robinson-Miller. Together they had eight children (including Laura). J.H. was a keeper of dry goods in the local general store and Louisa was a homemaker. Laura's brother, Nathaniel, was a bank president at the first branch of the First National Bank here in Columbia. The Miller family played a big role in the Columbia Church of Christ. Laura was born on March 21, 1865, a year after the end of the Civil War. In April of 1884, an epidemic of cholera was traveling throughout the community and Laura was infected. She died on the 17th of April, 1884, when she was only 19 years old. She was never married and had no children." -EMMALEE BAKER Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Silent City 2011: Audience got frighteners put on them 2011-10-25 - 315 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener. Two mystery men were in the Columbia City Cemetery, holding camp, a frightening sight for 2011 Silent City's audience. It was the supposed to be terrible pair, Those Pelhams, realistically portrayed by Barry Jones, left most recently seen as Jesse James in the 2011 Bank of Columbia re-enactment, and the very versatile Kenneth Bennett, who portrayed one of Adair County's all time heroes, the martyred R.A.C. Martin in the bank re-enactment, but looking ever bit as blood thirsty as Jones, in the above scene. Jones also occasionally plays good guys, as he did so well in an earlier Silent City, portraying his great grandfather, Doc Jones. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Appalatin band at Lindsey Wilson College, Tues. Oct. 25, 2011 2011-10-25 - Louisville, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo. The Appalatin Band, offers a fusion of Latin and Appalachian music. Members of the band are, not necessarily in order, Marion Obano Solano, Fernando Moyo, Steven Sizemore, Luis de Leon, Mason Roberts, and Yani Vozos. The band will perform at 7pmCT, Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at Lindsey Wilson College's Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall, 155 Blue Raider Drive, Columbia, KY. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to all. -PHIL HANNA Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Mike Watson one of the early performers for Silent City 2011-10-24 - 307 Greensburg St, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Starts at 5pmCT TODAY Adair County Historian Mike Watson was one of the first actors at the Adair Public Library, here to portray Parker C. Hardin. 5th Annual Silent City Tour started at Adair County Public Library, 307 Greensburg ST, Columbia, KY. Mr. Watson says that there is still another facet to native Adair Countians who have received Congressional Medals of Honor: Besides Sgt. Dakota Meyer and Brig. Gen. James Alexander Williamson, there a third recipient, but this one has a twist. He's promised the details, for later. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Golden Opportunity Bridge on KY 80 2011-10-24 - Combs, Perry Co., KY - Photo by H.B. Elkins. KDH photo. Beginning next year, the state plans to replace an aging bridge carrying KY 80 over the North Fork of the Kentucky River near Combs with a modern bridge. The existing bridge, a three-span steel Parker truss bridge, was built in 1929 and has been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge is approximately 450 feet long and consists of three 150-foot spans. -KDH. Dry Creek in northern Adair County would fit under it nicely, in most places. To visit the bridge from Columbia, KY: Hang a left at the LBN, thence onto the Hal Rogers, then KY 80. 139 miles, 3 hours and 4 minutes, according to Google Maps. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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