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growning up on mill creek road fort gay wv

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a lot of things haveÂ changed since i lived on mill creek road, i can remember there was a dirt

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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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Appalachia in the News Appalachian Memorial Movies and Documentaries of Appalachia (DVD) School Days

APPALACHIAN TRAGEDY: 1/2 A CENTURY LATER

February 22, 2010 admin 1 Comment andrew, appalachia, appalachian, biogrophy, bus, children, file, herald, leader, lexingon, moore, school, tragedy, wreck

Film depicts an Appalachian tragedy Documentary recalls 1958 school bus crash that killed 26 children in Floyd County By Rich

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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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Christy's Favorite Charities ETC. Mountain Living Uncategorized

Mission Of Hope: Sharing Hope in Rural Appalachia

June 6, 2009 admin 0 Comment Add new tag, appalachia, assist, back to school, book, Books, business, c ollection, campaigns, champaign, charities, charity, children, Christmas, church, churches, civic, civic group, civic groups, clearing house, clothes, clothing, collect, collection, collections, construction, contribution, contributions, distrubute, donate, donation, education, event, events, families, family, financial, financial donation, financial donations, food, furniture, general public, group, groups, healthcare, help, hope, hygiene, impoverashed, item, items, kentucky, knoxville, mission, mission of hope, mountain, need, non-profit, nonprofit, not for profit, organizaiton, organization, organizations, poor, profit, public, purchase, resourse, resurrection, rural, school, school. back-to-school, schools, spring, spring resurrection, support, tenn. tennessee, tn, toy, toys, www.missionofhope.org

http://www.missionofhope.org/index.htm Mission of Hope is a charity/volunteerÂ organizationÂ who’s goal is to help impoverished children and their familiesÂ in rural Appalachia. Currently, the

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ETC. School Days Uncategorized

School Built by International Harvester: Thanks BamaCat!

November 6, 2008 admin 0 Comment camp, children, co, coal, coal camp, company, corp, corporation, county, education, employee, employees, first, first grade, grade, harvester, high, high school, house, inn, international, international harvester, kentucky, kid, kids, ky, lynch, lynch co, lynch county, ninth, ninth grade, school, school house, school house inn, steel, us, us steel corp, us steel corporation

Please check out this wonderful site and BamaCat’s story below.Â I have copied and pasted it.Â It is very interesting!Â

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Legal Issues in the Mountains

Point Me to the Courtroom

November 6, 2008 admin 0 Comment attorney, bar exam, Christy, christy H. Sweeney, Christy Howell Sweeney, Christy Sweeney, circuit, counties, county, court, court room, courthouse, courtroom, Howell, kentucky, ky, law, law school, lawyer, lexington, litigation, motion, school, small county, smoke, smoking wheel chair, south, south east, south east kentucky, sweeney, tobacco, uk, university of kentucky

I look very young for my age, I always have.Â I left home for college and attended the University of

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