Photo Archives from ColumbiaMagazine.com. Click here for more photos.

Scenic Adair Co., KY: The Clocktower at night 2008-11-11 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Shamarie Claiborne. 'HOME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE': "The courthouse clocktower from a different view, off of Lindsey Hill right at dark time. I thought it was cool. I have a hard time taking night shots, I shake to much; guess it is my age," Shamarie Claiborne wrote. She was beautifully capturing in picture an emotion so many have felt seeing the view. In perhaps the most eloquent statement ever about the night scene from Lindsey Hill, How I discovered Columbia . . . when Columbus didn't, Gordon Crump wrote of the scene, "I kept returning to the lights of downtown, as if they were lighting my pathway in life. The longer I looked at them, the more hynotic they became and the more glorious Columbia seemed. I thought they looked like stardust strewn in the bottom of a great bowl. I knew I was at home for the rest of my life." Later in the essay, he writes, "Those who believe Thomas Wolfe's admonition that 'you can't go home again,' never lived in Columbia. .. nor attended Lindsey Wlson College." Those thoughts were prophetic about a scene from some 60 years ago. The author still lives in Adair County. Permalink | Comments?

If you have photos you'd like to share with ColumbiaMagazine readers, please email .jpg files to photos@columbiamagazine.com. Please include your name, an email address or phone number, the date the photo was taken, and the location and names of anyone in the photos.

Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728.
Phone: 270.403.0017