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Scenic Adair Co., KY: Where (almost) every stop is unforgettable 2011-06-16 - Taylor Ford RD, entering KY 206, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Sometimes we wish for more Stop Signs in Adair Co., KY. For more places to linger and enjoy. For a few more forced slowdowns like this one as one enters Liberty Road/KY 206 from Taylor Ford Road, a place where, at noontime, one can remember when an air conditioned ride was provided by open windows and tree canopied lanes, a place where one wishes for a basket, a loaf of bread, and some Smith-Berry Select Dry White Wine, smoked trout, a bit of cheese, a cluster of grapes, and a favorite person to share it with. The stops: This one. The four-way in Sano, where three choices make proceeding. The one at High Street and Greensburg Street, in Columbia, with invitations pulling in every direction. The intersection joining KY 61 from Cedar Grove Road, and where the casual driver can absorb memories in the mind long enough to be moved only by the beep from the only occasional car. Coming to a halt at the Highway 900 at Cundiff, and wondering whether to venture into Russell County, or take the meanders of Melson Ridge RD, west. They're everywhere. The stops which lengthen life and lower dependence on Lisinopril. They do force nostalgic moments, moments to remember the great stops of yesteryear. The most indelible of which may be only in the mind. The time when the stop from West KY 80/the Edmonton RD, meant looking at America's most beautiful farm scene, the Dohoney farm with its perfect tobacco fields, fat lazy cattle, meticulously maintained barns and the towering silo, and the tree line drive to the Dohoney mansion. The only stop its near equal was along the languid route to Lexington, from Danville, where the Chenault Bridge Road joined US 27. Memories of those stops only strengthen the realization that, the price of progress is sometimes very high. That maybe, preservation is the more important goal. That having a slow county means just as much as making Columbia a Slow City. One to enjoy, not race through. -EW Permalink | Comments?

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