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What's looking back in winter 2014-12-27 - From Five Star, 802 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. There is an ocean side room in a hotel, bayside window in a restaurant, equivalent at the Five Star on Jamestown Street - now serving $2.099 gasoline to become a very, very busy place. This view of near Downtown Columbia, over Office Park, has a central focus of the Columbia-Union Presbyterian Church - up close and from this distance one of Adair County's most beautiful. Directly to the right, the tall two story structure is a two and one half story house with a wonderful history, and a view not only of Downtown Columbia, but of Upper Jamestown Street as well. In historical perspective, the view from the Traylor House toward the photographer would have been, in the early decades of the 1940s, "out in the country." So far, in fact, that JIM, if memory is correct, tells of the time the Columbia Fire Department refused to put out a fire at the location because it was outside their jurisdiction - .8 tenths of a mile for the historic Adair County's Courthouse's Front Door according to no less an authority than Mike Watson. The photo is just one reason - please don't boo or throw things at me - why winter is my favorite season to see things. From the ground, where I like to stay, so much is revealed about the lay of the land and what's been hiding in the trees. Winter is a time to gain perspective. - EW. Paired photol; See also - Up close at the Historic Adair County Courthouse Permalink | Comments?

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