Edmonton | Metcalfe County

Fanny Fields has been styling hair for 47 years.

“Some days I work 16 hours, and it can be tough. But I wouldn’t give it up for anything.”

He’s the local veterinarian who calls the animals by name: Misty Jack and Boots.

In a town where the natural order of things is greatly respected, a quiet woman is stirring action with her new ideas.

Joy and enthusiasm shine in 16-year-old Jodi DarVill’s eyes. That enthusiasm is the thread she weaves through her many activities.

Everything I need is here.

Harold Stilts likes the people of Edmonton. “I want to treat everybody like I want to be treated.”

Some people say a man cant make a living by farming. But Barry Steele is working to prove that wrong.

“Im just a guy who takes things as they come.”

Tim Best is band director drill instructor and mother hen all in one.

“When you get a nickname, it just sort of sticks with you.”

If life were a 1955 black and white movie, Todd Scroggy would be one of the good guys, a Jimmy Stewart perhaps, who quietly and somewhat reluctantly becomes a leader.

Porters is full of friendly faces, and the towns-people are unified, taking pride in Sulphur Well’s rich history.

“Almost everybody has a grandma and a kitchen.”

Paul Jessie, like a lot of Metcalfe Countians, has lived his entire life on his family farm. He lives in a one-room, wood-frame house cluttered with his belongings.

When Metcalfe County students get out of school for the day some of them stop by the Cave Ridge Olde Country Store for a soda.  But two of them are already on the other side
of the counter.

You can call him Jay or you can call him Ray Jay or you can call him James Hoover. Whatever you call him, you can be sure that
everyone in town will know who you’re talking about.

Kay Harbison is a leader of the Metcalfe County Junior Historical Society a third-generation native who works to save Edmonton’s history.