Download or read book Growing Up Hard in Harlan County written by Green C. Jones and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
Download or read book They Say in Harlan County written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
Download or read book Farther Along Origins of the Cobb Pope and Ball Families of Harlan County Kentucky written by John Rhinehart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the progenitors of the Harlan County, Kentucky, Cobb, Pope, and Ball families from their known North American origins in colonial Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina to their eventual settlement in eastern Tennessee, western Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky. Substantial national, state, and local history is included in the narrative for the purpose of setting the people discussed in the context of their times. Issues such as the Methodist Church and the slavery issue, and Kentucky and the secession crisis are considered, as is Harlan County and the Civil War. Much attention is given to Harlan County's political history, from its Democratic-Whig beginnings to the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877. The narrative ends about 1900. Roughly 100 of the 500 pages of the book are exhibits.
Download or read book Harlan County Stories written by Lydia Dykes and published by Ascended Ideas. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan County has many stories... Ever wonder how Billy G. Hollow or Maggie Lane got their names? Did you know Benham has its own mafia? Who held the record as the oldest citizen of Kentucky at the time he died? Which Benham citizen once cooked at the Smithsonian? And what exactly is a 'Blistered Cat' or a 'Harlan County Smoky'? Harlan County, Kentucky has a long history and a multitude of stories. Lydia Dykes has brought together the stories behind some of the people and places that are a part of the rich history of the region that many people may not know.
Download or read book Twilight in Hazard written by Alan Maimon and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.” —Associated Press From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . . When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region “like a foreign correspondent would.” And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times’s Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic—a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything—and nothing—you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon’s Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter’s immersion in a place, and of his return years later—this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner’s daughter—to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology. Twilight in Hazard refuses to mythologize Central Appalachia. It is a plea to move past the fixation on coal, and a reminder of the true costs to democracy when the media retreats from places of rural distress. It is an intimate portrait of a people staring down some of the most pernicious forces at work in America today while simultaneously being asked: How could you let this happen to yourselves? Twilight in Hazard instead tells the more riveting, noirish, and sometimes bitingly humorous story of how we all let this happen.
Download or read book Harlan County Kentucky written by Holly Fee and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harlan County Haunts written by Darla Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan County Haunts explores the unknown with over 60 tales of spooky encounters and weird occurrences. Although the focus is on Harlan County, there are stories from around the southeastern Kentucky region as well as other states. Featured in Harlan County Haunts is the novella, "Caroline", which highlights one of Harlan County's most compelling unsolved crimes.Jackson, a lifelong Native of Harlan County, takes you on a ghostly journey through the mountains of Appalachia and beyond. Harlan County Haunts contains ghosts, monsters, angels, and many personal accounts of encounters with the unexplained.Harlan County Haunts was over two years in the making, with Jackson compiling well over 100 true accounts of experiences with the paranormal. After many interviews and research, the stories in the book are what she considered the best and most credible.
Download or read book The Harlan Renaissance written by William H Turner and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
Download or read book History Records of Harlan County Kentucky People This County Adjoined Historical Cumberland Gap Tenn Va Until 1857 When Bell County Ky Was Cut Off written by Annie Walker Burns and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hell in Harlan written by George J. Titler and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up Hard in Harlan County written by G. C. Jones and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.C. "Red" Jones's classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan," and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
Download or read book Bloody Harlan written by Paul F. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the classic saga of conflict between labor and management occasioned by the many attempts of the United Mine Workers of America to organize Harlan's miners during the New Deal Era. Harlan County, Kentucky was the last major anti-union bastion in the Appalachian coalfield. The story of the organization of the county's coal mines by the United Mine Workers of America is largely confined to the decade of the 1930's. The most serious union campaigns occurred in 1931-32, after the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933, and following the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935. Finally, after almost a decade of labor strife, the Federal Government intervened following the Supreme Court decision in the case, N.L.R.B. v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (301 U.S.1), on April 12, 1937 which upheld the National Labor Relations Act. After a year of federal inquiry, culminating in the Mary Helen conspiracy trial at London, Kentucky, Harlan's miners could join the UMWA openly and without fear of recrimination.
Download or read book Harlan Miners Speak written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Harlan County Kentucky written by Henry Harvey Fuson and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Harlan County written by Mabel Green Condon and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Harlan County Haunts written by Darla Saylor Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Harlan County Haunts is the follow-up to the popular Harlan County Haunts and features over 100 true ghostly accounts set in the area of Harlan County, Kentucky. More Harlan County Haunts has tales of ghosts, monsters, angels, and even unidentified flying objects. Although many stories in the book are recent, there are also many stories telling about the county's eerie and haunted past. More Harlan County Haunts' feature story is a tale about a house on Cumberland Avenue in downtown Harlan, Kentucky that reveals the house's bloody past.
Download or read book Mountain Murders written by Darla Saylor Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain Murders is a compilation of unsolved murders and tales of murder in Harlan County, Kentucky. It is based on cold cases and information gathered by Darla Saylor Jackson.
