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Wisdom: A marking place on the way to Glasgow 2007-06-03 - Metcalfe County, KY - Photo from the Lavonne Anderson collection. This grand old store building still stands though the general store is long since closed. The general store at Wisdom was always a marking place on the road to Glasgow when KY 80 was the main route from Columbia, when most Adair Countians passed this when on trips to buy goldfish at Newberry's 10 Cent Store, visit the Howard Clinic or get their tonsils removed at TJ Samson Hospital, or dine at the Dutch MIll Restaurant in Glasgow. The structure was immortalized in at least one of Fred and Richard Young's Kentucky Headhunters videos. The store building is still in the Young family, now owned by James Howard Young, whose residence can be seen in the left hand side of the photo. The business, at the time of this photograph, ca 1900, was owned by James Howard Young's father and mother, Oren and Effie Shirley Young. The building fronts on the south side of KY 80, with Cave Ridge, Edmonton, Gascon, Gradyville and Columbia to the left; Lecta, Glasgow, Hays, Smith's Grove, Bristow, and Bowling Green to the right, and straight ahead, on the side of the store, the road to Randolph, and Goodluck or with a right in Randolph, Summer Shade. Permalink | Comments?

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