AppalachianFolkA Collection of Appalachian Stories

Contact:  Christy H. Sweeney                                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Phone: 859.494.2540 Email: chsweeney@centralkylaw.com Website: www.appalachianfolk.com   APPALACHIAN FOLK FOUNDER FINDS HER ROOTS AT THE MUSEUM OF APPALACHIA   LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY (APRIL 2010) â?? Preservation of Appalachian culture has always been a passion for Christy Howell Sweeney, Esq., founder of Appalachianfolk.com.  In a pursuit to discover [...]

            August 1, 1930 was a hot afternoon in a mining camp in Garmeda, Kentucky when Deedie (pronounced â??Dee Deeâ??), was born the first child of Jack and Flora Hise. There were no doctors available for the coal minerâ??s families so she was brought into this world with the assistance of other motherâ??s in the [...]

The memories that remain in my mind of my father are still a haunting memory. It was January 1944 that we children returned to our home in Bean Fork, Kentucky. There we found that our father had been taken to the Middlesboro, Ky hospital. No information was given to the children, but our mother was [...]

I would like to talk to some from .South eastern ky .grew up in ligon ky.

By LAWRENCE MESSINA Associated Press Writer MONTCOAL, W.Va. (AP) – A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1984, and rescuers on Tuesday began a dangerous and possibly futile attempt to rescue four others still missing. Crews were bulldozing an access road so they [...]