born and raised in harlan ky live in northern. They might as well have been in different states. Since Ive been gone, Harlanlike all of Eastern Kentuckyhas been devastated by prescription drug abuse. Yes, Big_O,, I remember the man you asked about. The Fuzzy Duck, the Corner and the VFW. 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 was in her class the day JFK was shot in Dallas. Self - Mine Foreman (as Basil Collins) 1976; Credits. Garys was a fun place. Rest assured that no one in my family considers me a disgrace or embarrassment, but your concern is noted. That bastion of journalism, Hustler Magazine, once listed Harlan (the town) as one the three meanest towns in America. She married a coal miner who also was educated and chose that life. He had a taxi service called Do me right He was found on the side of the mountain with many bullets in him and his taxi. The actress claimed family friend Val Dumas said her mum whored her out to him for 400 She later claimed family friend Val Dumas said her mum whored her out to him for 400. My dad grew up in Evarts. Raised up on Happy Top, Back Street and Creechs. Oh, you might go to Garys Lounge and Roller Rink sometimes. 1. I will list it here. They had no desire to ever live anywhere else. I remember when you had to take a gravel road from Pineville to Loyall when they were building the new 119. Like much of Eastern Kentucky, the population has declined for decades. The other side was the Lounge, a long, narrow open room with a dance floor. Spent a lot of time at the top of the hill up Watts Creek. Anyway, thanks again. As you know we lived near Evarts. My dad was one of them, outside Tommy Lees barbershop. LOL. Im from Tennessee (save your boos for later, lol) and grew up in a very small, rural town with a lot of off the grid inhabitants. I know exactly where you were driving. Then, I moved to Lexington, Kentucky and found out that I was pretty tough by Lexington standards. Director Barbara Kopple lived among the miners families and captures an intimate portrait of a movement. I-64 runs through Montgomery, Bath, Rowan and Carter Counties. I dont believe Ive ever been called a mooron before. I can connect with outlanders here in Georgetown by telling them, I was there the day that McDonalds opened..great times! Welcome to Harlan County! Its a kind of mountain street cred. Outside the Highsplint mine in Harlan, County, KY in 1974, United Mineworkers of America (UMWA) strikers and supporters confront state police and strike breakers. Before the union won the right to an election, one miner was shot dead by company security while having a beer with friends. If he is still living can you ask him about any Leonard relatives he know about or put him in touch with me. Great description. I used to try and derail the presumptions, now I just embrace them. Entertained by the tendency to call you a mooron and ignorant while not fully grasping the importance of grammar and spelling. I couldnt quit reading it. It would occasionally be condemned but re-open at some point. I just cant get enough of the haters. I graduated in 71 from JACHS. That hurts everyone. Even though life was very hard at times, it was filled with family and friends and its been fun thinking about them this morning. I was even sent back to Atlanta to attend Agnus Scott College, and didnt stay because I actually missed my family AND Harlan County. Cheese is the only thing the US government ever perfected. I was up at Holmes Mill just a few months ago. I remember it seemed like every time my high school played Cawood there was a knife fight. I dont need tattoos, i have scars. I was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit but my parents were from Harlan County, my dad born in Holmes Mill growing up in Highsplint, my mother born and raised in Black Mountain eventually leaving and lived in Corbin. Today, theres not much there for anyone, unfortunately. Nothing will get a hard-working coal miner or school teacher fired up like a discussion about those drawing a check. Thats how it was when I was a kid, and it hasnt changed. Many who knew of the hair would be shocked to know he wears it pretty much buzzed these days. Heres my personal map of the area: This seemingly random boundary results in some folks calling it Southeastern Kentucky which, geographically speaking, is more accurate. Pingback: ALL ABOARD THE NERVE GAS TRAIN! My children are fascinated and perhaps slightly horrified that I grew up in Harlan. Harlan has always been divided into pro- and anti-union. my husband was raised knowing your dad and all your family I love your blog. My Aunt Pauline is 95 now and still lives there. I lived in Rio Vista until I was 12. Our client was suing the City of Sandy Hook. Ben Joe Harris disarmed the guy so that it would be a fair fight. I am an outlander. I was rather disappointed to read all about my competition Garys Lounge. Nothing like the beauty of a snow covered mountain, springtime with sprinkles of dogwoods and redbud blossoms or the beautiful fall foliage! The field is backdropped by some beautiful mountains, right at Tunnel Hill. Singing man in the beginning. The other motel in Browning Acres is Mount Aire Motel. I live in Lexington now as well have since 1990. She agreed. I grew up here, went to school here and am still here by choice. My mom grew up in Cutshin, my dad was from Martins Fork, they met at The Court Cafe. WebSeveral members stabbed a local sheriff when he dragged a woman violently off the road on 28 February 1974. We knew Jimmy Meeks very well. I have always considered Harlan my second home. I moved to the Tampa Bay area as a teenager and it was a bit of a culture shock. Parents moved to Dayton, OH in 63. I am a brand new grandma and I am Mamaw to that beautiful baby. I do not claim to be from there so I am not in any of your groups. I didnt know, but thats before my time. My brother actually had a knife pulled on him at Cawood. Any of that sound familiar, Pingback: SoWhere Are You From? Alternative name. Loved this! I graduated Harlan HS, UK, then moved to NYC, culture shock! the Ackley Hotel in Harlan until he retired and moved back to Cumberland. A man that loved My uncle Clarence still lives in Ky. My mother and her Sister Yuvonne live in TN. The ones who love it love the depiction of rough and ready union brothers and sisters ready to wage war with the coal company thugs. You shouldve had to breath half a can of hairspray in the morning after he got out of the bathroom. She stayed there for a few months but felt things just werent the same so she moved back to Newport News where she had made some good friends. In talking about monthly checks, I can remember visiting my family in Louellen, a coal mining camp in those days, and going down to the the company store and watching people get their cheese in blocks and their commodity meat which was actually spam. And of course, I mean that in a funny, I`m laughing kind of way. he passed away in 2013. his wife, jan, passed back in february of this year. I was one of the Hensley girls that lived on the strawberry farm. I was born, raised and still live in Pike County. Oh, well. Took the jury about 5 minutes to find against us, lol. Ironically, my daughter found a boyfriend from Loyal(the ones in Georgetown are apparently not her type) so she visits him a lot. Mountains. I called some place the other day, got an automated machine.your name, address, (Im sorryI didnt get that could you repeat that again. Its county seat is Harlan. I knew Lisa vaguely. The menacing Fun read. If you ever lived in Harlan you have been gone so long you dont know what the hell is going on. It reeked of Pine Sol. Joseph "Jock" Yablonski. Then we moved up on Park Hill in Loyall. If you need to go someplace that can be accessed through Harlan County, I guarantee that theres an easier, quicker way to get there. My parents didnt ever say much about their lives or or about my Grandfathers as both of them met violent deaths back then. Miss the trains. Itd be hard to sneeze and not hit a Creech with the spray. After 8 weeks or so the letter came with I found your Harlan countian!! Some escape, but most dont. My Uncle Ralph Leonard was Pastor at the Baxter Methodist Church before it was moved. Born and raised in Harlan, graduated from HHS in 1974, and UK in 78.went to work in Washington DC.talk about culture shock! Again, they are excluded because of lack of isolation. Being a descendant of such a controversial character of those times I may be asking for a social beating on here. I went to college and had personal and professional opportunities that pulled me away. Love your response, I live in central ky for a lot of years now, but when I can go home I stay at the Comfort Inn Hotel, it is a Blessing to us out of towners, I think this page is right on, and I dont like the way most people think of Harlan, we are just like anyone else, even if we have a little accent, awesome page, and I lived in Loyall a few years also, my mother died there, thanks for letting people know that its not all justified, although I have never watched a full episode, they are awful. And of that i am very proud. They pity Harlan. My husband is a retired coal miner. Im very impressed by your writing. 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. It still is in some ways, although it has been many years since the United Mine Workers Association held great sway. Two of my best friends were Steve Farley and Jamie Helton. If you do so, you wont be called a bigot or a phobe of any type. I loved it AFTER the mob left that came to my door the day I moved in, demanding to know Who are you and what are you doing here? Edit. Greenup is east of Harlan, Ashland is east of Whitesburg, and if Catlettsburg gets any more east it`s going to be West Virginia, are you seriously arguing with the lat/ and longitude? The original Mount Aire Motel was on Pine Mountain, and it burned down in the 70s. Most of us pass through this phase at some point. My best friend (not from Harlan) went to Saudi Arabia as a traveling nurse. Enjoyed the article. Rich Montjoy, I am replying to your post because you didnt say anything bad about Harlan, (Harlan County), Ky. Ive lived a few places in east ky, but never been to Harlan. Weve been in the Lexington area since then, but we still say back home when we are talking about Neon and Jenkins. This was the day that I learned that when we turned the corner at Pineville, my wife changed languages and I needed an translator.. Thanks for reminding me of a great memory of my mother! Wouldnt trade it for anything. Now kids go to Harlan County High School which consumed Cawood, Evarts and Cumberland High Schools. Harlan is total badass. Im class of 83. I graduated in 80. Congrats on a good job describing a little bit of what most folks cant imagine happened. I am so grateful to the educators in Harlan who worked so diligently to open our minds, expand our thinking and develop our talents especially in music. It is my hometown by choice.I love it, I retired from Ky Dept of Trans (engineering). The general store, a thriving Coal community. LOL LOL..enjoyed the article, One way to prove that someone is from the mountains is if they know someone named Lonzo! Love love love Harlan County Kentucky and the people. Like inner cities, there are generations locked into a poverty cycle. My dads cousin J.R. Williams owned a shoe shop (cobble shop) in Cumberland. First, much of what I wrote is tongue in cheek. Oh yeah, one last thingI am a coal miners daughter..and damned proud of it. Did you live here? . Im from Loyall. So translation you perhaps do not have no prospect of progress which would mean you do have prospect of progress.. you are right few have paid you such complements. Lots of memories from Harlan. We had our own post office, City Hall and fire station. This is where Norma lives, was the reply. Yes, we have folks living in povertytoo many (as though there is an acceptable level of suffering) but most folks live just fine. Help me out with what category to look at to fi the hitchhiking story. Loved your blog and thought it to be an accurate description. My much loved step daddy moved us to his hometown after he was discharged from the Army. We liked him! It might have been the wrong side of the tracks, but I knew some good folks from there. I attended LoyallElementary and Junior High and James A. Cawood High School. Were the last group thatcan openly derided. 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. SOMEONE MENTIONED SMITH. They go to other parts of the state or country and live as ex-Harlan Countians. I get the isolation, and the coal mining( although Boyd , Greenup, and a lot of the others have had some minor strip mining now and then.) I was mostly raised In Floyd Co. KY & did live in Grundy , Va. at one time. We have corresponded back and forth for several years about our Leonard connections. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . I am a faithful Kentucky Basketball fan and follow them year in and year out, through good and bad GO BIG BLUE.. His first feature film was Harlan County U.S.A. (1976, as Himself - mine foreman). And Misty, April and I grew up together. My Dad used to talk about when they distributed commodity margarine. I do not intend to change it now and I am NOT ashamed of it. Bledsoe, so we limped, if you know what I mean Born in Leslie Co. and graduated James A Cawood in 81. Bell county baby.We got the mountains here too. U take car cuz. Glad that youre happy in whatever metro area you moved to. We only periodically had a movie theater, the fabulous Margie Grand in Harlan. The experiences never leave me about growing up poor and the shame and humiliation that I felt as a child. There are good people and bad people. Who are the Harlan Countians? I have always been proud of being from Cawood in Harlan County. Rarely is an Eastern Kentucky county a destination. Home; Movies; TV Shows; People. My husband has worked in low coal where one had to crawl to get to your section. I do think this is good stuff. If its easy, theres nothing better. He was a clerk there. Used to go to Cumblin every Fride and satdy nite. He lived there with his wife my Aunt Hazel and their children Laura Jean, Stanley and Mickey. I am simultaneously entertained and offended. Great story and oh so true, every word of it. You nailed it. Maybe 700 or so now. Theres nothing to do. loved this. Their isnt anyone who acts the way you have described them in this concoction, Nor is the area the way you have presented it. You talked funny. The economy continues to contract and isnt likely to get much better. 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. Well, I have rambled enough. Dickens said it best . Im from a family of 12, but no inbreds here, but I do know cousins who married. What happened to Basil Collins in the end? Im sure they knew each other. Dad used have him mow for us sometimes. They had two fabulous sons who have college education with degrees in medical field and other fields. Overall, we like the stereotypical portrayal of Harlan. Her husband had been killed during the war. Food stamps, too. So, I speak of how it was 30 years ago. John. I have all the respect in the world for the good people in Harlan county its rough with mines getting shut down and people loosing what they know best and thats coal Im sorry it rough that is a reason I moved but keep strong everyone in Harlan has a big heart and I promise they are some the best people u ever meet in ur life. Im an outlander, living in Pulaski County. My life is very much divided into two partsbefore and after Harlan. My kids do that, too. Absolutely loved this!! jack brock ha d 21 dogs and 21 kids, he got kill by a drunk man he was taking home that was about like the earth quake in los ang years ago it was bad , for those who know my grandpa honey bill saylor and my dad and my friend big al ,arnold lee saylor he was a damn good man i miss alot cause he is in all my boys alot i see him every day yours trunly ronnie gene saylor of molus ky aka molus hollow. I dont remember Chappells slogan, but I do remember: Thats what I saidBunny Bread! I also remember the 1st grade field trip to Chappells, Bunny Bread and Harlan Ice. Graduated from jach in 78. Really enjoyed the article. Funny thing is, thats what my kids do, even though they live in a small city with a million things to do. Your dad was a really good teacher. There are people who will pretend to be from Harlan or any place else in Eastern Kentucky. Jan had so many stories about the hospital. WebHarlan County U.S.A. 8.2. I was raised over the mountain at Little Laurel. inside lacrosse schedule; bradley county 911 active incidents; dodgers home run seats menu; what happened to brittany on the jeff kuhner show. It was originally the Bays Motel. Nimrod Workman. I graduated in 1964. Construction on the house beat the power company by a few years. Im one of those that left for work but I have a brother who still lives there and I occasionally visit. This, so they say, makes them mountain people. She graduated from Cumberland High School. I live in the city now, and raised my daughters here. We often visited Harlan as most of our relatives were there. I used to sleep on the bread racks.
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