Bingo: Elona Grant,53,reacts to her her husbands’s bingo game in which he won $100. Because it was payday, the grants drove two counties north to Lebanon to play bingo and buy some beer, things they can’t do in Adair County.The Grants get a visit from their granddaughter, Jessica. Because of a wiring problem in the ceiling, the Grants room is lit with a single light bulb.Charles Smoking: Charles Grant sits at his dining room table smoking a cigarette. Grant has emphysema and heart trouble. “My heart is like a time bomb,” he says.An old stove sites in the front yard of the Grant’s house off Fairground Street in Columbia.While talking with Coakley Rogers about a real estate situation, Walker, without looking, reaches out to grab the hand of Pharmacist Sheila Bryant as she come into the reception area of Walker’s office.Richard Walker, judge executive of Adair County, spends much of his time on the phone in his office.Mary Allende holds her sleeping grandson, Austin Graham,2, while telling Walker about flooding in the county the week before. Allende is deputy director of Disaster Emergency Services of Adair County.Walker shares a laugh with retired County Agent Wayne Livesey at the Circle R Restaurant in Columbia, where he goes almost every morning for breakfast. At left is Ed McKinney.While in spacing road construction on Vester Road,Walker waves to a passing motorist.At the end of his day, Walker relaxes, with his wife, Marsha.The small town of Columbia begins to come alive in the early morning hours in front of the Adair County Courthouse.Unfortunately there is no info with this photo.Unfortunately there is no info with this photo.Unfortunately there is no info with this photo.Unfortunately there is no info with this photo.Doorway: Charles and Elona Grant pose in their doorway with a family portrait taken in 1953.
