Columbia Baptist Church Thanksgiving dinner 2024-11-25 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Mark Fudge. A large crowd gathered on Sunday evening, November 24, 2024, for the Columbia Baptist Church annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Due to construction at the church, the meal was held at the VFW building. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Travel: Treasures on display in the Landesmuseum 2024-11-25 - Stuttgart, Germany - Photo by Veronica Arnold. On their trip to Germany, the Arnolds paid a visit to The Old Palace (German: Altes Schloss), a former castle located in Stuttgart, which is home to the Landesmuseum. Wikipedia says that "The Landesmuseum Wuerttemberg (Wuerttemberg State Museum) is the main historical museum of the Wuerttemberg part of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. It emerged from the 16th-century 'Kunstkammer' (Cabinet of art and curiosities) of the dukes, later kings, of Wuerttemberg who resided in Stuttgart." Among the curiosities in the photo is a globe at bottom left that may have been presented by Johann Anton Riedinger as an inaugural gift in the mid-1700s to the then Duke of Wuerttemberg. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

OCC 2024: Reiber Nazarene Church 2024-11-25 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Mark Fudge. Anna Huff has been dropping off shoebox gifts for the Reiber Nazarene Church for several years. This year the church was able to pack more boxes than ever before. She is pictured here with her husband, Ralph Huff. Dropoffs will continue on Monday, November 25, 2024, from 8amCT to 10amCT at the First Church of the Nazarene/Wheet Fellowship Hall, located at 1200 Jamestown Street Columbia, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Travel: Inner Courtyard of the Altes Schloss 2024-11-25 - Stuttgart, Germany - Photo by Veronica Arnold. On their trip to Germany, the Arnolds paid a visit to The Old Palace (German: Altes Schloss), a former castle located on the Schillerplatz in Stuttgart. Veronica says "In the mid-1700s, the Altes Schloss was deemed not nice enough and a new castle was built and the Altes Schloss was left to be the warehouse for the court royalty to store their archeological finds and collections. The antiquities were of various time periods, and from all over the globe. they even had globes and various tools used in navigation in the 1600s." The Palace is home to the Landesmuseum's exhibits on Stone Age and Roman artifacts, paintings, and a recounting of ancient regional history. You can read more about The Old Palace at Wikipedia. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

Birds of Kentucky: Canada Geese in flight 2024-11-25 - Central Kentucky - Photo by Pen. A pair of Canada geese flying low over the water. Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

OCC 2024: Artwork is a special touch on shoebox gifts 2024-11-25 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Mark Fudge. Kasey Kessler makes his Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts very special by providing beautiful artwork on each box. Pictured are some of the beautiful designs on his boxes. Dropoffs will continue on Monday, November 25, 2024, from 8amCT to 10amCT at the First Church of the Nazarene/Wheet Fellowship Hall, located at 1200 Jamestown Street Columbia, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

OCC 2024: Kasey packs 13 boxes for 13 years 2024-11-25 - Columbia, KY - Photo from Mark Fudge. Kasey Blue Kessler has been packing shoeboxes for eight years. He started when he was only six years of age. For each year that he gets older, he adds a shoebox to his total number of boxes. Kasey packed 13 shoeboxes this year to celebrate his 13th birthday. He is the son of Eddie and Tiffany Kessler. Dropoffs will continue on Monday, November 25, 2024, from 8amCT to 10amCT at the First Church of the Nazarene/Wheet Fellowship Hall, located at 1200 Jamestown Street Columbia, KY. Read More... | Comments? | Click here to share, print, or bookmark this photo.

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