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In a jet black Plymouth Fury, built before air conditioning or seat belts were standard equipment, the vacation of a lifetime began.

The massive vehicle would accommodate four adults, three children and a baby on a trip to California to meet Mickey Mouse. At 8, I was the oldest of that pack of kids.

Disneyland was a novel concept in America. A new idea that became known as a theme park.

In the agriculture field, fathers and sons often work together on the farm. While retaining individual farming interest, Larry Jaggers Sr. and Larry Jaggers Jr. plow common ground in row crop production.

For the elder Jaggers, 69, farming began when he was a child then grew into a career in the spring of 1962. He had a dairy farming business for almost 50 years but now he raises beef cattle and farms crops with his son.

Jaggers Sr. remembers farming with his dad near the end of the horse-drawn era, before tractors became the farming standard.

A University of Kentucky study seeks to unearth the past at Fort Duffield without digging a single hole.

Philip Mink, an archeologist and anthropologist at UK, paced a $40,000 piece of equipment on small wheels back and forth along measured paths in an area that might have been a burial site for Civil War soldiers.

“It’s not very exciting to watch,” he said. “It’s like mowing the grass.”

All four area teams which competed in the annual Duke’s Summer Shootout girls’ prep basketball exhibition games left pleased as the event wrapped up Wednesday night.

The Shootout began Monday morning with action in three gyms – Charlie Rawlings Memorial Gymnasium, the auxiliary gym and nearby Panther Academy. The event featured 12 consecutive hours of games Monday and Tuesday and 11 hours of play Wednesday.