Kentucky Color: My Homeplace
2023-07-09 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge
The layout of the house allows for very flexible access for either or both a boarding house and or for adult children and their families. Comments | Permalink Signs may be added to mark truck route around bypass
2023-07-09 - Columbia, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Among ideas discussed at the downtown traffic meeting at City Hall were possible additions of signs to help indicate the best truck route around Columbia. It will be especially helpful as drivers deal with the square being closed to through traffic from 7pmCT to 7amCT nightly from Tuesday, July 11, through Tuesday, July 18, 2023, as work begins to remove the wings from the historic Adair County Courthouse.
The top photo shows signage looking towards downtown from the connection of Hwy 55 N and the Veterans Memorial Bypass. The bottom photo shows signage looking towards downtown before the Bypass crosses Hwy 61/Burkesville Road. Comments | Permalink Rose Kennedy in Adair County News in 1960
2023-07-08 - Columbia, KY - Photo at the Trabue Russell House by Linda Waggener
Among the historical documents on the walls of the Trabue Russell House is this news of Rose Kennedy, mother of then presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, when she brought his national campaign to Adair County, September 34, 1960. The event, a tea, was held at Cornelia Hughes' Motel on East 80 just past Circle R in Columbia. Hosted by local Democratic women, the regional event saw almost 1,000 women meet the future President's mother. Comments | Permalink Older Photos