My family ties are in and around Pilgrim, Martin Co., KY. I was surprised to find a front page article in the Lexington Herald Leader about this small area that I always saw as “going up Mamaw’s”. I spent a lot of my childhood in Pilgrim, KY, being brought home there and living there the [...]
My Realization
By: Patricia Samples Workman
We’d just moved back to California. It was early 1959 and I’d started first grade. We lived in a house with a vacant lot for a yard. It was located just a few houses over from the Harbor Freeway. You could see the signs on the freeway for the Imperial Highway [...]
Our family was on the move again—we were on another cross-country trip. This time we were traveling on a Greyhound Bus on Rt. 66. It was 1956. I was three years old; my brother Dusty was one and a half. This was my third or fourth cross-country trip; and that’s not counting my trip [...]
I remember it as if it was yesterday. Although I did not know the men involved, their families, or even been to their town, I felt their sorrow in the deep pits of my soul. I truly felt their ups and downs, I prayed for days, I mourned and I got physically ill. That’s something that bonds all people from [...]
I was born and raised in Martin Co. in a little place called Beauty, Kentucky, right at the bottom of Buck Creek mountain in our family holler known as Charlie Maynard holler, Charlie being my Grandpa. I loved this place like no other I’ve been in my life time and wouldn’t change a second of [...]