Author Nick: bamacat
Name: Paul Turner
About Author: I was born in a little coal mining camp in SE Kentucky in Harlan County.
The company International Harvester owned the mine where my dad worked, they owned the hospital that I was born. They owned the school I went to from the first through the ninth grade, the reason for only the ninth grade is they gave the school to the Harlan County School System and they consolidated it with Cumberland High School, and I went from Benham to Lynch, which was another little mining town with a independent school system owned by US Steel Mining Company.
Looking back at those times they were not near as hard as a lot of people thought, we had a clean bed, and a warm house and 3 meals a day.
CINNAMON & HONEY……. you won’t be sorry for taking the time. Bet the “drug” companies won’t like this one getting around. Facts on honey and cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept [...]
Rest of the Story ...Well it feels good to start the New Year off retired. Actually I offically retire on Jan 30th but I am on vacation from now until then. Come Jan 15th I will have 35 years of working for 4 different mining companies 3 in Kentucky and the last 18 year in Alabama Mining Has really [...]
Rest of the Story ...On September 23rd, 2001 only 12 days after the 9-11 attacks on our nation. Sunday evening several miners were doing idle day work at JWR Mine #5 in Brookwood Alabama, the roof fell in on the battery charging station on a working section of the mine. When the roof fell in on the spare battery [...]
Rest of the Story ...As I was growing up most all of my family were Church Folks, both of my Papaw’s were preachers, my  Mamaw’s were really good Godly women, if they told you something you had better believe it.  When I was very young a Preacher came to visit our little Church on the Hill,  (it was called this [...]
Rest of the Story ...While I was working at Benham Coal Inc, @ Benham Kentucky , as my cousin and me were arriving at work one Tuesday in March, we saw the mine rescue team loading their equipment on the bus they used for traveling.  We walked in to the bath house and I saw one of my uncle’s taking [...]
Rest of the Story ...I was in a hospital owned by the coal company that my dad worked for. After growing up and trying to see the world and finaling coming back home. I started working in the mine in Harlan County and after a couple of years there I went to the same company where all of my [...]
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