The Korean Conflict resulted in different emotions being brought back home to some Clinton countians. Six months after the fighting began on June 25, 1950, Private Joe Elmore’s family was told he was missing in action. His partial remains arrived back home 68 years later. James Morrison grew up not far from Elmore.
At Heartbreak Ridge, the Master Sergeant saved another soldier’s life and performed other courageous feats to earn him enough citations to make him the Korean Conflict’s most decorated soldier from Clinton County.
And then there was the telegram that William and Dorothy Stearns received saying their son, Minford, had been captured during a battle on July 14, 1950, just three weeks after the conflict began. He would remain a prisoner of war for thirty-seven months, or until
by John Fuller
Some memories of John Fuller who lives at the end of the road in Clinton County.
My day begins early from my big window, I see birds and other wildlife start their day.
I look up from my coffee cup and see the calendar. Wow, it’s my birthday…90 today. I look up again. Here comes Kathy with the best looking
Let’s go back in your mind to Christmas memories when you were a child. Recently, I ran in to some old friends and we have been reminiscing about our Childhood Christmases! We talked about the candy we would receive as a child.
I remember as a child John L. Riddle was my bus driver and we always had to pick up the bus driver a little something. It would usually be a box of chocolate covered cherries, a pair of Jersey gloves, or socks. I would
The late John D. Thrasher, a former teacher and principal in Clinton County, wrote to Clinton County News in 1975 to tell about the time that the first airplane landed in Albany. The year was 1919. No one remembered the name of the pilot but, according to Thrasher, a history of Lindbergh tells the story of the famous pilot running out of fuel and having to make an emergency landing — in a small town in southern Kentucky.
Thrasher was the principal at Albany
During the Civil War, John W. Tuttle of Wayne County kept a diary while he served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. This story begins with his trip to Albany, three months after the war had officially begun.
“We arrived at Albany about 10 a.m.,” he wrote on July 27, 1861. “The first thing we saw upon arriving at the top of the hill overlooking the town were the Stars and Stripes gaily fluttering to the breeze above the tops of the houses. On entering town,
The Voice of Rowena
Past and Present
Hello, my name is Rowena and I grew up on the north banks of the Cumberland River. I hope you will take a minute to listen to my story. Please sit back and bear with me for my memory of the early days isn’t as clear as it once was and some of what I tell you may be as it was, or it could be that
Family Vacations …
As the summer winds down and school starts back, did you take your kids on a family vacation? I decided to take my vacation later this year because for the first time in 16 years I don’t have a child going to grade school. I have two in college so that is a change for me for sure.
I can’t help but reminisce on my family
“Based upon the sagacious singularity of life back in the days when ridge runners not only had no place to go, but nothing to do when they got there.”
Between January 1939 and December 1967, Allan Trout wrote a popular daily column in the Louisville Courier-Journal. “Greetings” focused on folklore, humor and “barnyard science” and attracted a loyal following and regular correspondence between Trout and his readers. For years, one such correspondent was L.S. York of Albany.
Leander Sylvester York was a
“Based upon the sagacious singularity of life back in the days when ridge runners not only had no place to go, but nothing to do when they got there.”
Between January 1939 and December 1967, Allan Trout wrote a popular daily column in the Louisville Courier-Journal. “Greetings” focused on folklore, humor and “barnyard science” and attracted a loyal following and regular correspondence between Trout and his readers. For many of those years, one such correspondent was L.S. York of Albany.
Leander Sylvester
It was a big night for CW Steele and Albany on that hot summer night in 1980 when the band played its now-legendary concert at Smitty’s Drive-In. The lot behind the restaurant where we sat up the stage, a flat bed trailer, was standing room only. The parking lot there was full, as was the big one across the road at Albany Stockyards. A continuous flow of traffic encircled the well-known restaurant for what seemed like hours that day and evening. The carhops were kept busy, as were those working