I just finished watching the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter. Its a movie that I have watched many times over. I guess you could say that I’m a little obsessed with Mrs. Lynn. She grew up about 40 minutes away from where I did in Johnson County, Kentucky outside of Van Lear in Butcher Hollow. That in [...]
Rest of the Story ...I was watching a documentary on Appalachia and one of the things they talked about was the fact that the people almost always return home when they move away and they did not know why. They talked about how people used to go to bigger cities for work and then bring their families back to the [...]
Rest of the Story ...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 [...]
Rest of the Story ...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 [...]
Rest of the Story ... Thomas Freese  www.ThomasLFreese.com  (502) 439-7720  Call for speaking engagements,  Workshops and book signings.  Making Wood Jewelry Southwest Style  By Thomas L. Freese Artist, Author and Storyteller  Schiffer Publishing, 2010, ISBN # 978-07643-3414-6  Nonfiction, paperback, 64 pages, 168 color illustrations  Retail: $12.99, ($13.77 with tax, add $5 for shipping)                             Release March [...]
Rest of the Story ...I found this article in the Lexington Herald Leader and thought I would share it with you. This mining disaster happened the year I was born. I didn’t even know about it until today. How horribly sad. May the victims rest in peace and may their families find some solice knowing that their loved ones [...]
Rest of the Story ...Film depicts an Appalachian tragedy Documentary recalls 1958 school bus crash that killed 26 children in Floyd County By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com Associated Press A school bus that carried 26 children and a driver to their deaths is shown after it was pulled from the Levisa Fork, Floyd County, near Prestonburg, Ky., on March 3, [...]
Rest of the Story ...Haunted Battlefields of the South Historian Bryan Bush and Storyteller Thomas Freese bring exciting and chilling tales of the ghosts of the War Between the States! The ghosts of Civil War soldiers still inhabit the battlefields of our Southern States. Veteran re-enactor and historian Bryan Bush traveled to battlefields and researched both tactical history and on-the-ground [...]
Rest of the Story ...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 [...]
Rest of the Story ...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 [...]
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