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ETC. Moving to Appalachia Uncategorized

love ky.wouldnt trade it for the big city

November 4, 2011 admin 0 Comment city, columbus, country, crime, drugs, johnson, ky, louisa, moving, ohio

we moved from johnson co. to columbus ohio when i was about ten years old after thirty years in the

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ETC. Mountain Living

Loretta Lynn: An Appalachian Inspiration

August 3, 2010 admin 0 Comment autobiography, bonnie, book, butcher, coal, county, daughter, do, dolittle, grandma, holler, hollow, hospital, johnson, kentucky, ky, lear, loretta, lynn, miner, miners, movie, poor, prestonsburg, van

I just finished watching the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter.Â Its a movie that I have watched many times over.Â I

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Press Release: Museum of Appalachia

April 20, 2010 admin 0 Comment ancestry, appalachia, appalachian, Christy, clinton, folk, folk. christy, Howell, joe, john, kentucky, ky, lexington, museum, press, release, rice irwin, roots, sweeney, tennessee, tn

Contact: Â Christy H. SweeneyÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Phone: 859.494.2540 Email: chsweeney@centralkylaw.com Website: www.appalachianfolk.com Â APPALACHIAN FOLK FOUNDER FINDS

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Coal Mining Stories

Deedie, the Daughter of a Coal Miner

April 15, 2010 admin 1 Comment 1033, 1035, 1930, 1930's, 1944, 2004, 4, abuse, abusive, accident, alcoholic, arkansas, ca, California, camp, coal, coal mine, coal miner, community, critical condition, daughter, deedie, died, discipline, doctor, fall, family, farm, farm community, farmer, farming community, flora, flora hise, games, garmeda, government aid, health, hise, hospital, hypocondriac, injured, injury, Jack, jack hise, jack ise, january, kentucky, killed, ky, lap, leo, leo hise, lpn, middlesboro, midwife, midwives, military, mine, miner, mining, mining camp, new mexico, new zealand, nm, nurse, oil field, ok, oklahoma, problems, rebellion, sare cropper, school, siblings, slate, slate fall, son, surgery, switch, tenant, tenant farmer, tulsa, union, world war II

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â August 1, 1930 was a hot afternoon in a mining camp in Garmeda, Kentucky when Deedie (pronounced â??Dee Deeâ??),

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Coal Mining Stories Mining Memorial

A 7 year old Litle Boy's Memories of his father's death

April 12, 2010 admin 2 Comments 1944, appalachia, bean, blast, boy, crushed, death, died, fall, father, fork, garmeda, hise, Jack, jack p hise, kentucky, killed, ky, middlesboro, mine, obituary, ospital, slate, work

The memories that remain in my mind of my father are still a haunting memory. It was January 1944 that

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Appalachia in the News Books

Wooden Jewelry Artist Thomas Freese Releases Book

March 14, 2010 admin 1 Comment aclaim, artist, author, beads, book, buide, craft, craftsman, earrings, engagement, fe, freese, jewlery, kentucky, ky, make, making woodjewelry southwest style, mexico, new, nm, photo, photographs, pins, press, publishing, release, santa, schiffer, signing, speaking, thomas, wood, wooden, worksop

Â Thomas Freese Â www.ThomasLFreese.com Â (502) 439-7720 Â Call for speaking engagements, Â Workshops and book signings. Â Making Wood Jewelry Southwest Style Â

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Appalachia in the News Mining Memorial

Scotia Mine Disaster of 1976

March 10, 2010 admin 0 Comment 119, 1976, 26 iners, 34, 76, administration, blast, blue, caudill, comprehensive, cumberland, diamond, died, disaster, dori, dust, eastern, explosion, fork, griffith, hayes, health, herald, hjalmarson, huff, hughes, illed, inspector, kentucky, ky, leader, lexington, memorial, mike, mine, miner, minerva, mining, misty, mountain, msha, oven, pat, remember, river, robert, safety, scotia, seams, silica, us 119, wade, whitesburg

I found this article in the Lexington Herald Leader and thought I would share it with you.Â This mining disaster

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Growing up in Appalachia

Growing up Barefoot Memoirs of Connie Sweeney Murphy

December 1, 2009 admin 1950, 1959, 1960, 1970, accident, barefoot, bathing, beans, beauty, birth, butter, cap, car, cheerleader, cheese, chicken, child, Christmas, church, clay, clothes, co, coal, commodity, commodity food, community, connie, connie murphy, connie sweeney, connie sweeney murphy, county, courthouse, creek, death, dipper, east, eastern, electricity, family reunion, food, food stamps, fried chicken, government, graveyard, graveyard church, graveyard meetings, grief, grow, hardship, heart attack, hog, hog killing, hole, horse, house, inez, kentucky, kermit, killing, ky, lovely, martin, meeting, memoir, mines, mother, mountain, murphy, outhouse, peanut, peanut butter, picnic, pony, poor, popcorn balls, potatoes, preach, reunion, rice, ronnie, school, school clothes, shoes, stamps, story, sweeney, swimming, swimming hole, tomboy, trading, tub, vegetables, wake, warfield, wash, wash tub, washer, washtub, wringer, wringer washer

Page 1 My mother tells me that in 1959, I was born in an old wooden house up a hollow

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Appalachia in the News

Jack Adams of Pilgrim, KY Makes Front Page News

November 27, 2009 admin 5 Comments adams, co, county, east, eastern, herald, herald leader, Jack, kentuck, ky, leader, lexington, martin, pilgrim, vet, vietnam, vietnam vet

My family ties are in and around Pilgrim, Martin Co., KY.Â I was surprised to find a front page article

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Appalachian Memorial Growing up in Appalachia

Home

November 2, 2009 admin 2 Comments appalachia, apples, beauty, blue gill, buck, buck creek, charlie, charlie maynard, Christmas, creek, fall, family, fishing, grandpa, green, grow, growing, holler, hollow, home, inez, kentucky, ky, lovely, martin, martin county, maynard, sledding, snow, summer, walnuts, warfield, winter

I was born and raised in Martin Co. in a little place called Beauty, Kentucky, right at the bottom of

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