I know it well. 1. Delivered babies at ARH back in 87 while doing my Family Practice residency at UK. Thanks! I know you as a Harlan Countain and also as a fine person. I left to go to school at EKU, meet my wife there, she is from Ohio. I was one of the Hensley girls that lived on the strawberry farm. It will always be home., Thanks. Lots of good folks from across the mountain.. Lived in Hazard then, after Hazard we came to Ohio. Its too dull. Of course, it doesnt. I was about 11-12 and I remember we played outside constantly. They might have gone to college or joined the military. Most of us pass through this phase at some point. If you read it carefully, youll note that I said I havent lived there in 30+ years. Good stuff, John. We only periodically had a movie theater, the fabulous Margie Grand in Harlan. She was a great homemaker and was full of wit, wisdom and love. Finally I hang on long enough to get a real person. There are differences: we`re north east, you`re south east. Welcome to Harlan County! Black lung finally got the best of him but legally these days black lung doesnt exist. LOL LOL..enjoyed the article, One way to prove that someone is from the mountains is if they know someone named Lonzo! So please you out landing, loathing spectator, Keep your thoughts on the area you live in now, and the goings on there, we dont need or want you perspective of the people that actually live, work and die here. I guess this was one of many reasons my dad thought California was a good choice for me. I live here because I truly love this beautiful part of Kentucky and America. Although we certainly werent poor, Government Cheese is excellent, and my Dad would get us a block whenever he could. Like anywhere else, you have to hope to you dont cross paths with the bad ones at the wrong time. I had to laugh at your reference to government cheese. It really was good stuff! I dont know. I believe they graduated for there on 83. I was born and raised in Sunshine. Were the last group thatcan openly derided. BTW I live on Watts Creek and have most of my life..off and on. Take care! I spent at least a week during the summer vacation every year growing up visiting the Harlan area and family enjoying every visit which included rail road tracks and slate dumps on one side of house and the Cumberland River on the other side all residing in a big holler off HWY 38. I believe you will see that I have great affection for Harlan, much more than many of the people who still live there. It is true that you can take the boy out of the mountains but never the mountain out of the boy. My dad was certainly a bad ass, growing up in a time and place that required that to survive. Thanks for the kind words. Being 60yrs old now, I am very proud of my ancestors and family heritage. My kids do that, too. Paddling. why dont u come back?i know why ,because it is to political and if your not a doctor or a lawyer or have plenty of money ,you aint shit yeah the mountains are nice and this is a beautiful place, but if you aint in the click you aint shit and thats the way it really is you just like the bloody harlan shit and it makes you look BADASS to tell people your from here .your a joke dude and quit livin off a place that you evidentally really no nothin about ..post this DUMBASS . as differences, real ones, but the rest is a little over stated, like JUSTIFIED, eh? No wonder I was overwhelmed. Ive got a few more Harlan County memories. I have many relatives there, but Ive been gone since I graduated from high school in 1979, when my family moved to Corbin. My maternal grandparents grew up in Black Star coal camp and Papaw taught at Hall High. Great description. Each letter she wrote me held the news. God do I ever remember the Government Cheese and all the other free food provided by the gov. Harlan is mean. of life I have lived in Chicago, IL., Ypsilanti, MI., Charleston, W. Va., so I know all to well about the differences of living in Eastern KY & a big city. If we meet anyone else from Eastern Kentucky, we can get instant acceptance with a simple I grew up in Harlan. Translation: Despite appearances, I will kill you if necessary. Now kids go to Harlan County High School which consumed Cawood, Evarts and Cumberland High Schools. A few notes: The qualifications for Eastern Kentucky status include: I hail from Harlan County, the Eastern Kentuckiest of all counties. She would forever remain his Georgia Peach. Yes, Big_O,, I remember the man you asked about. Then, I moved to Lexington, Kentucky and found out that I was pretty tough by Lexington standards. They lived near Dionne along the river there. ! Whatd I say? Cawood was named after James A. Cawood, long time Superintendent of the Harlan County Schools. You talked funny. I have resided in Knoxville, TN for 26 years but Eastern Kentucky will always be home because that is where my extended family and my husbands extended family continue to reside. I just found this wonderful Blog! I have no other information on these two at this time. My momma cooked on a coal fired cookstove. I instructed her to be on the lookout for a Harlan countian. (She died in 1995, and I am so glad to have such good and often funny memories of her.) My dad was one of them, outside Tommy Lees barbershop. Elliott County. I have no information on a Clarence Leonard in our family tree. (LogOut/ If we didnt know them, well they were at the wrong house. WebA coal miner silhouetted and barely visible in the darkness of a coal mine calls out a warning three times, fire-in-the-hole, the words all run together melodiously, letting all know hes about to detonate an explosion.So begins HARLAN COUNTY USA, 1976, 104 minutes Directed by Barbara Kopple, Winner Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary 1976. When I started reading this blog I thought well this is alright, but as I continued I came to realize that you dont know what the hell your talking about. I graduated in 1964. Janice and I were both switchboard operators and admissions clerk. Would I be a pretender? There are a couple of places to stay, and theyre okay. Nobody has ever even looked at me sideways up there; theyve always treated me well. I knew your father-in-law, and mother-in-law. Alan Creech, such nice thoughts and memories of this beautiful part of God earth that I am proud to call home. And of that i am very proud. We always found lots of mutual interest things to gab about. That hurts everyone. My Dad and his six siblings were all raised in Evarts. John Sudie Crusenberry. You need some coal mines, either now or in the past. I am an Outlander (orlando), looking to be a Stalwart. No worries. People may had been living on Government cheese when you grew up and the first may had been like a amusement park, but all that has changed. And of course, I mean that in a funny, I`m laughing kind of way. I loved reading your blog and all, or at least most of the comments! NEAR CLOSPLINT KY AND I AM PROUD TO BE FROM HARLAN CO THAT IS HOME ALTHOUGH I LIVE IN CORBIN KY NOW. This is where Norma lives, was the reply. Jeanette McKendrick Leonard was my Me-maw and the best lady you to have ever been born! I know that area well. Basil Collins is recorded in slow motion firing a gun at the camera while members of the strikebreakers beat Ms. Kopple and her crew. I remember when you had to take a gravel road from Pineville to Loyall when they were building the new 119. The name of the area now came to be because the truckers that hauled from the mill just refrerred to it as Holmes Mill! I went to Cumberland College, Austin Peay Univ for my first masters, Trevecca University for my doctorate, second masters, and administrative certification. Ive lived a few places in east ky, but never been to Harlan. A friend of mine once drank a beer from a girls cowboy boot at the Lounge. We liked him! And so do I. I know all those places. IMDbPro. It might have been the wrong side of the tracks, but I knew some good folks from there. In Atlanta, some of the New Yorkers that worked with me at the ad agency used to continually ask me where I was from just to hear me say it. My Mom then joined the WAC. What is Eastern Kentucky? I have to admit that I enjoy the irony of a sentence like Your ignorant., Its like the guy who commented that Im a fuckin mooron.. I found a place to turn around and get back down the road and get my act together. I married a Lady, born and raised in Harlan. I have more memories of the younger Brittons that are closer to my age. My parents married in Harlan County in 1949. I go there to visit, and it has improved somewhat, but I like my central Ky home in LaRue county much better. I was mostly raised In Floyd Co. KY & did live in Grundy , Va. at one time. Great story and oh so true, every word of it. I guess teenagers everywhere just hang out. It is funny how people from all over the Country know where you are talking about when you say you are from Harlan Co. and many of them visibly tense on that statement. Doc Gray? There are doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, coaches, laborers, deadbeats and criminals. Awesome story. myname isronnie saylor i lived in fairview hollow i was 11 years old,went to haran grade school i remenber my gym treacher they call him doc , he would paddle you for saying the word shit ,does anyone remenber that .i will never forget the family that live accross from us the kids name was buck and peggy thomas,peggy was my frist she was beauitful to,the boys lived next to me , i remender one of thems name phiplip,i still got a scarefrom where he hit me with a rock.we used to take car hoods cut them off and float down rivier on them.my dad work out of town in ohio,my mommy would slip around with a taxi driver,she drink alot ,we move to wallins after that , thats where i never went to school,started working in coal mines at 16 years old dad sign so i could work under ground.we lived in wallins for a little while then move to molus ky thats where my dad was risedthey were about all kin florks back then they all live in camp houses granmam and jack brock lived next to each other they were family to, i remenber my brother got lock in a rc cola mach out on granmam poach. You brought back a lot of memories. Harlan is no more defined by any subculture than Chicago should be defined by its sad history of public housing or New York by the worst of its slums. Very isolated. I wouldnt trade my life for anyone else. I guess youd call it a region or sub-region of Central Appalachia. Im actually kind of offended by your antics and false information. U can take me out of Ky. but u cant take Ky out of me!!!!!! Outlander here Born at HARH, raised in Grays Knob- attended Hall Elementary and Junior High, JACHS and then got out to attend UK.
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