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 could drill 1,000
feet into the earth [...]
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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, 1958. Fifteen bodies where [...]
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 would like to take a moment to introduce you to a wonderful, intelligent and determined young man who has overcome more in his 33 years of life, than most of us will face in a lifetime. Larry has not shied away from adversity, but faced it head-on and overcame. He is such an inspirataion, [...]
Rest of the Story ...Noah Maynard
BACK IN 1960 WAS BAD AND GOOD TIMES FAMILY’S DID NOT HAVE MUCH BUT WE HAD LOVE
DAD HAD A THIRD GRADE EDUCATION
IN MARKUM HOLLOW MARRIED RUTH SHE WAS 14 HAD HARD TIMES LIVED ON $200 DOING ODD JOBS AND NINE CHILDREN BORN AT HOME NO HOSPITAL IN MARTIN CO KY
FATHER’S WAS CAL HAPPY PAPPIES [...]
This article was in the Lexington Herald Leader and I thought I would share. I will copy and paste it, but you can also visit it directly
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Mining for tourism: Exhibit offers look inside coal mine
HARLAN EXHIBIT OFFERS VISITORS A DEEPER LOOK AT COAL HISTORY
By Dori Hjalmarson - dhjalmarson@herald-leader.com
LYNCH — After 32 years of development and [...]
Rest of the Story ...Appalachian Folk has excited news. I have obtained the upcoming schedule for Thomas Freese, Kentucky Author and Storyteller. Mr. Freese has written several books including Shaker Ghost Stories
from Pleasant Hill Kentucky;Â Fog Swirler and 11Other Ghost Stories;Strange and Wonderful
Things: A Collection Of Ghost Stories with Special Appearances by Witches and Other Bizarre Creatures and;Â Haunted Battlefields [...]
Appalachia has very beautiful landscape. In order to protect and preserve the landscape, in 1911, Congress passed the Weeks Act, giving the federal government authority to create national forests and control timber harvesting. Regional writers and business interests led a movement to create national parks in the eastern United States, culminating in the creation of [...]
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