Travel: White Sands National Park
2023-06-01 - New Mexico - Photo by Graham Waggener
A picnic shelter on the way to White Sands. The National Park Service says of White Sands, "Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert, creating the world's largest gypsum dunefield."
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2023-06-01 - New Mexico - Photo by Graham Waggener
A picnic shelter on the way to White Sands. The National Park Service says of White Sands, "Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert, creating the world's largest gypsum dunefield."
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Epicurean Kentuckian: Pancakes and Sausage
2023-06-01 - Cave City, KY - Photo by Amy
Pancakes and sausage from The Watermill Restaurant in Cave City. Comments | Permalink
2023-06-01 - Cave City, KY - Photo by Amy
Pancakes and sausage from The Watermill Restaurant in Cave City. Comments | Permalink
A wee tidbit of Bank of Columbia history
2023-06-01 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy JIM
JIM writes, "This notice appeared in the May 7, 1866 edition of The Louisville Daily Journal (one of the forerunners of the Courier-Journal). The notice reads:
2023-06-01 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy JIM
JIM writes, "This notice appeared in the May 7, 1866 edition of The Louisville Daily Journal (one of the forerunners of the Courier-Journal). The notice reads:
IN ORDER TO A SPEEDY ORGANIZATION OF the Deposit Bank of Columbia, Kentucky, there will be an election of Directors and other officers of said Bank at the law office of Garnett & Baker, in said town, on the 14th day of May, 1866. The stockholders in said Bank, and all others interested, will please attend.Over a century and half later, most of the names are known by those familiar with Adair County history." Comments | Permalink
- JESSE MURRELL
- JAMES GARNETT
- SINCLAIR WHEAT
- THOS. M. FRAZER
- CLAYTON MILLER
- THOS. T. ALEXANDER
- Commissioners
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