You went up 119 to the Loyall turnoff, and youre absolutely right: Any Harlan Countian who turns the corner at Pineville changes languages! My uncle Clarence still lives in Ky. My mother and her Sister Yuvonne live in TN. 10 Grandchildren and . Oh, well. My mom (Joyce Abraham) was a home ec teacher at JACHS at the time of government commodities, and she had students who always offered to sell her their cheese for $5.00 a block. But today, thanks to my daughter and another pool company, there are more privately owned pools at homes, per average, than in Fayette County (Lexington). In reference to going swimming in the river and the city pool, we did that too. Im sure they knew each other. I graduated Harlan HS, UK, then moved to NYC, culture shock! Jeanette McKendrick Leonard was my Me-maw and the best lady you to have ever been born! E Hudson. Guy Enos Bobby T. Jessie W. Finis Marvin W. Burley . I know that area well. My cousin posted the link on Facebook and I have not been able to move till finishing the read. I am VERY new to the blogging world. View Recent Obituaries for Bianchi Funeral Homes Evarts~Harlan~Loyall~Tri City. There arent running gun battles anymore like the famed Battle of Evarts many decades ago. By the way, I think grilled cheese sandwiches made from government cheese were the best! Daughter has owned her own business in Harlan for thirty years. We were poor and I will say very poor. I just know that by writing all this misinformation as if it were this day in time, you have disgraced and embarrassed your people, an you should be ashamed of yourself. . I had him for a health class. And should I know you? Coal Mining. They find it hard to believe we had no fast food restaurants. One of the only times I used my dads reputation, telling the guy to go ahead but it was going to be his last night on Earth, because if I didnt kill him, my dad would. Do you remember the Chappells Dairy slogan? https://www.facebook.com/groups/WallinsCreekers/. They have cousins or in-laws or remote ancestors who hailed from the mountains. What happened to Basil Collins in the end? The good ones liked my Dad if not, oh well. Our reputation precedes us. So, watch your step. So much that even some locals have a hard time understanding me. You shouldve had to breath half a can of hairspray in the morning after he got out of the bathroom. | Coal Troll's Blog, My Life in Harlan County | Williams Kilpatrick, PLLC. When he grew up, he moved west to Colorado and became a hard rock miner for the next 40 years. If you were Basils neighbor, then you lived in Rio Vista, right? He was a sort of silent partner of mine from 1974. There are gun thugs in Harlan County, U.S.A., in particular a mean, squinty-eyed, jackal named Basil Collins, his pistol sticking out of his Dickies like a goofy cap gun. Honestly, it took me years to adapt. Graduated Wallins about 1956. She taught Home Ec, but also taught other classes. Kildav . I am a badass.. About 1,000 people lived there when I was a kid. Ruth Ann was my older brothers age. There were several Leonard families in the county in my day. It's hard to take Basil seriously until he's shooting. I told him apparently his computer didt speak Hillbilly.I am proud of my head of the holler rasin. People may had been living on Government cheese when you grew up and the first may had been like a amusement park, but all that has changed. What is Eastern Kentucky? Box 102, Oswego, New York 13126. When I started reading this blog I thought well this is alright, but as I continued I came to realize that you dont know what the hell your talking about. If I go back to Harlan for even a day, even my family cant understand me when I get back. They go to other parts of the state or country and live as ex-Harlan Countians. As usual John you nailed it!! They just hang around and complain. My life is very much divided into two partsbefore and after Harlan. U and I are related. To her credit this pretty city girl took these inconveniences in her stride and made this mountain man a very good wife. I knew the Clarks well. Imagine trying to explain where Cutshin is located!! My grandparents, Elve and Flaura Campbell, moved to Sunshine and eventually to Loyall. Im on the state Corrections Commission, so Ive seen her name. We like being the badasses of Eastern Kentucky. The only tv stations the antenna could pick up were out of knoxville Im an outlander, living in Pulaski County. Look at my blog post Adventures in Hitchhiking, and youll see a story about JImmy picking me up hitchhiking one night. Guide to Harlan County, Kentucky ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. Plaster would fall from the ceiling and you could throw popcorn on the stage in front of the screen and watch the rats scurry out to eat. No matter where Ive traveled in this great country, I never fail to meet someone that is either from Harlan, or knows someone that lives there!! Were the last group thatcan openly derided. Stalwarts, outlanders, pretenders, loathers you left one group out. Dad was born and raised there. We like people to think wed kill them for some trivial reason. God do I ever remember the Government Cheese and all the other free food provided by the gov. Theres nothing to do. The old structure is still up there on Pine Mountain. She was the daughter of the late Robert and Della Mae Hall Price. John. I went back through my Ancestry.com files and I found 2: Clarence Leonard, born 24 May 1914, Walker County, AL and died 27 July 1985 at Corbin, KY, it shows he had no wife or children, and his father was John D. Leonard and his mother was Jeanette McKendrick Leonard. We still have relatives in the area. You hit home with many of your comments being born and raised in Eastern Kentucky, Sandy Hook, Elliott County to be exact. Loved your blog and thought it to be an accurate description. Once you push too far north, you get out of the mountains, and we have to exclude you. There are people who will pretend to be from Harlan or any place else in Eastern Kentucky. now let me add to your story, Harlan has taken a step ferder, and now has a Huge new Comfort Inn Hotel.Yep, John this is LONZO, and we now have more southern hospitality hure..Come see us sometime. Interment was at the Orleans Cemetery.. Bryan Bantam, 93 years of age, or Alma, NE (formerly of Orleans), passed away Sunday, September 12, 2004, at the . Harlan is mean. Yes I remember you, vaguely, it has been a long time. I have more memories of the younger Brittons that are closer to my age. No one from Harlan . Have lived in SC for the past 25 yrs but everyone who knows me knows where I come from. I respect ALL coal miners. Eastern Kentucky isnt for everybody, it isnt even for a lot of the people who live here their whole life. I own a piece of railroad track on the Rhea Straight. This is the first time I stumbled across you blog. View All Funeral Homes in. And so do I. I know all those places. JACHS did not open until the 66 67 school year. I have to admit that I enjoy the irony of a sentence like Your ignorant., Its like the guy who commented that Im a fuckin mooron.. 1 Index Record. Tons of great memories and good friends. Christy, I believe we may know each other. Harlan is no more defined by any subculture than Chicago should be defined by its sad history of public housing or New York by the worst of its slums. Getting Started | Contributor Zone Contribute to This Page Edit page Clear your history We got spanked when we needed itdidnt hurt us one bit but sure made us better kids growing up and better adults today. Ray Wynn February 26, 2023 (87 years old) View obituary. Unless you lived in the town of Harlan, you dont go to the city schoolsHarlan High Elementary and Harlan High School. I love your article! I just tried a case in Illinois. Harlan's mother was a music teacher. The vast majority of Harlan Countians are proud to be from Harlan. We also had to carry our water from a water-pump in buckets, so the new bathroom was a good conversation subject with its only use was the bathtub that we would heat water to bathe in. Im sorry my great-grandchildren dont have such memories. I have always been proud of being from Cawood in Harlan County. I graduated in 1964. That brings back fond memories. I do think this is good stuff. The folks in Brookside were surely Harlan Countians as was the chief gun "thug," Basil Collins. My name is Julie Crowder-Ward. . I must admit, however, that we have had few issues adjusting to Tennessee except for the color orange. Happy to be an Outlander! I was about 11-12 and I remember we played outside constantly. So so sad to see that head of the Holler non existent now, all overgrown. I dont remember Chappells slogan, but I do remember: Thats what I saidBunny Bread! I also remember the 1st grade field trip to Chappells, Bunny Bread and Harlan Ice. I miss Government Cheese. He is easygoing for a security guard and handsome in a salt-of-the-earth way. In the 1970s, a strip-mining company asserted its ownership over the mineral rights for property he. The accuracy of the index varies according to the quality of the original images. | Coal Troll's Blog. Were about the same age. Awesome story. Growing up, I didnt feel particularly tough. ha! I guess this was one of many reasons my dad thought California was a good choice for me. Two of my best friends were Steve Farley and Jamie Helton. . I believe they graduated for there on 83. Mountains. On future blog give Watts Creek a mention. I appreciate your comments but must, of course, defend myself. They point to the many fine folks in the county who were (and still are) horrified by the goings on at Eastover. The field is backdropped by some beautiful mountains, right at Tunnel Hill. Not many folks have a clue of my history, and thats fine. 1939 - 1945 World War II - Ages: 29 - 24 years. And we DID bathe just like people from up north. I need to work Watts Creek in to a future post, for sure. Even though I had been lots of places, leaving Harlan took me out of my comfort zone. I am a brand new grandma and I am Mamaw to that beautiful baby. Maybe they never left. When I was young, the Government Cheese truck looked like a scene from an African relief mission. its more home to me than anywhere ever will be. Im pretty sure I remember Lance. They might as well have been in different states. He was 45 (88) years old when He died. Very funny (and true). Im from graysknob, pine branch was were I lived till I was 17 then we moved to Putney. My friends still tell me you can take the girl out of Eastern Kentucky, but you cant take the Eastern Kentucky out of the girl. Basil Collins was Uncle Basil to us. Good old Mikes drive in, where one of Harlan Countys finest young men threatened me with a belt when I stepped in to defend a younger friend. 6. Regardless, they came back. Obituaries can vary in the amount of information they contain, but many of them are genealogical goldmines, including information such as: names, dates, place of birth and death, marriage information, and family relationships. An outlander is someone who used to live in Harlan. I just said, hey, he was my neighbor. Thanks. Clarence had one brother Howard P. Leonard and Howard P and his wife Lucille had a son named Clarence Edwin Leonard. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards . My older brother and sister were both born at Lynch Hospital. The wrong side of the tracks to the town school crowd of the 1960s. When we heard a car coming we knew we were having company.we usually hid to see who it was. Like anywhere else, you have to hope to you dont cross paths with the bad ones at the wrong time. Helped me so much when I worked there. Grew up in Loyall. my growing up years were behind the old telephone company next to Robinette Chevrolet which was across from the old Macks Supper Market and down the street from Hackneys. She graduated from Cumberland High School. We have live all over Eastern Ky, moved south to the Carolinas, then back to eastern Ky for a couple years. Maybe they were hoping to see (or experience) some kind of catastrophe. There are a couple of places to stay, and theyre okay. Its nice to remember, though. Obituaries; Photos; Podcasts; Scene; This one in particular may be of interesthttps://thetrivialtroll.com/2013/07/13/hometown-loyall-ty/ He had a lot of money. It is true that you can take the boy out of the mountains but never the mountain out of the boy. So please you out landing, loathing spectator, Keep your thoughts on the area you live in now, and the goings on there, we dont need or want you perspective of the people that actually live, work and die here. BANTAM, BRYAN Funeral services for Bryan Bantam were conducted from the Presbyterian Church in Orleans, NE on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 2 p.m. with Pastors William Bills and Dixon Powers officiating. My grandfolks, originally from Johnson Ct. lived up at the end of a holler. Im sure youd know if you were related. I was born and raised in Harlan County, from Jones Creek, graduated from Evarts High. Both my grandsons have degrees in med profession PT and Massage Therapy. I think we also went to RC Bottling Plant at Loyall. If you read it carefully, youll note that I said I havent lived there in 30+ years. Who We Are. I not THAT old! We still miss it! I guess youd call it a region or sub-region of Central Appalachia. I loved all your rationale for your boundary lines. Right now, its in a big down turn. My mother is Drena Crowder-Leonard. My Dad and his six siblings were all raised in Evarts. ITS GOOD TO HEAR FROM OTHER HARLAN CO PEOPLE. It even had an old balcony whererumor had itblack folks used to be seated. Hell, it was the best cheese everthe only thing the Federal Government ever perfected! Id hate to have to kill you. He was my English teacherand a good one at that. Good to hear from you. Join us . Wouldnt trade my youth spent in Harlan County for any other in the world. There are doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, coaches, laborers, deadbeats and criminals. HARLAN COLLINS OBITUARY. I have never been to a Harlan County Bears football game, but I have been told that the team enters the field to Brad Paisleys You will never leave Harlan alive song. It might have been the wrong side of the tracks, but I knew some good folks from there. So, I guess Im just arguing it is in the wrong state We hung out at Denny Rays, Kens and I cant remember the drive in on the road to Loyall?? 1944 - 2023 ONEONTA - Ronald G. Peters, 78, passed away Feb. 1, 2023, at his home. Its a nice place. I dont believe Ive ever been called a mooron before. If I knew them personally I would surly let them know about it too. Pretty accurate for McCreary Co, as well. Vacation at Hilton Head, Tybee Island, Myrtle Beach, Hawaii, have an American Spirit Coachman that sleeps ten and a pontoon. Also, I find the surest way to know someone is from SEKY is after telling them where Im from they follow up with, do you know so-and-so? I love that. For many years now, Harlan has had a multi-screen cinema. Bad-ass wasnt the first word to come to mind, but I sure didnt want to mess with those folk! I dont get back as often as Id like but always thoroughly enjoy coming back to visit. Great story and oh so true, every word of it. Hart Perry as Director of Photography. We lived in Yancey when I was born, moved to Brookside, then moved to Evarts (Woods Mine Area) before moving to Walker County, AL. Its bleak. My mom is from Cote (Evarts) I cant wait to read this to her! Im not from Kentucky saw this blog post through a friends facebook but Ive really enjoyed reading it and the comments! Rich Montjoy, I am replying to your post because you didnt say anything bad about Harlan, (Harlan County), Ky. It was quiet then. miners in this county AND other states. I can relate to alot of it. Thanks for the kind words. Been back very few times. My husband and I are the black sheep as I am an attorney and my husband is an accountant. Jeff Otis C. Elster Ray Ulysses Sam Benton Tilmon Floyd H. Arthur F. Charles J. February 23, 2023. It was originally the Bays Motel. It was tough to find two functioning seats together. A meeting of the Brookside women's support group. I raised my daughter hereBTW she has owned a successful swimming pool and fence company here for 35 yrs. My dad and papa were both coal miners for blue diamond mining for years. The first of the month is a big time in Harlan. They lived near Dionne along the river there. The Short area), my last name being Short It still is in some ways, although it has been many years since the United Mine Workers Association held great sway. By the way, Cumberland had the Novo Theater and the drive-in theater as well. I feel the same way, even though my sons say they cant believe I grew up there! I rarely saw Janice after I left the hospital, Small town life can be hard or easy. John, enjoyed your comments. Also attended and graduated from Loyall High, where I was cheerleader and fairly popular. John I knew that truly dangerous people dont threaten much. My momma cooked on a coal fired cookstove. https://thetrivialtroll.com/2012/03/10/adventures-in-hitchhiking/. She was stationed in Newport News, Virginia when the war ended. Thats pretty much the consensus of people I know. he passed away in 2013. his wife, jan, passed back in february of this year. I JUST RAN ACROSS YOUR CONVERSATION AND THOUGHT I WOULD COMMENT ON HARLAN KY. While my friends and fellow graduates were leaving here, I was happy to stay in a place I loved. I didnt mean to turn my comment into a mini blog, but you inspired the flood of memories! Absolutely loved this!! Are we still allowed to be in Appalachia? Even though they know whats best for Harlan, we dont really like them. Keep writing as I do enjoy it. If someone tells you that he or she is from Harlan, they could mean any town from Pathforkto Holmes Mill to Cumberland to Cranks. I have many good friends I have met through the Hall High Gamecock web site. So, I speak of how it was 30 years ago. Im sorry but I dont think so. Nothing will get a hard-working coal miner or school teacher fired up like a discussion about those drawing a check. Thats how it was when I was a kid, and it hasnt changed. I was raised in Wallins Creek and Cumberland by my Mamaw as a child. A native of Fulton, he was a life resident of the Fulton-Volney area. This has been the driver to be obsessive about work and a career. Whitley County has an interstate so are they still Eastern Kentucky? It will now be in Bell County Circuit Court starting Thursday after a change of venue. There are gun thugs in Harlan County, U.S.A., in particular a mean, squinty-eyed, jackal named Basil Collins, his pistol sticking out of his Dickies like a goofy cap gun. The government cheese, however, is real. I still tell people I am from Harlan because it brings instant recognition. Our Story; Our Locations; Our Calendar; Contact Us; Directions; Send Flowers; Call: Evarts 606-837-2119 Harlan 606-573-3030 Loyall 606-573-2132 Tri City 606-848-5455; South Farmington, NS. You hit the nail on the head ~ Love this! Others leave to find better opportunities. I was mostly raised In Floyd Co. KY & did live in Grundy , Va. at one time. I was rather disappointed to read all about my competition Garys Lounge. I have lived here all my life and even tho at times i feel like due to work i may have to leave, i doubt i ever could. i bet you knew my father in law he worked at the loyall store and was the fire chief for a number of years. Elliott County. They know whats best for Harlan, though, and wont hesitate to tell you. In fact, I got up this morning with the intent or renewing my research. It was a thriving community in the 60s-70s. Allegedly once Collins was released at wars end he cut off the head of his prison guard with the guards own sword. In talking about monthly checks, I can remember visiting my family in Louellen, a coal mining camp in those days, and going down to the the company store and watching people get their cheese in blocks and their commodity meat which was actually spam. NOTE TO SELF: Dont move to Ages,Ky,Home of Brookside Mine, during a strike. You brought back a lot of memories. Nominally a documentary about the 1973 strike by Kentucky mineworkers, the 1976 Oscar-winning Harlan County U.S.A. observes the evolution of a movement, made urgent . No as in stop, do not, negative, etc and nothin slang for nothing not anything; no single thing; having no prospect of progress; of no value; not at all. Ruby did you know a family named Clark? Crusenberry talks about being asked by a group of women to . I think they graduated in the same class at Cawood. . She was retired from the Harlan County Board of Education, where she worked at the Wallins School. Dont say we are not eastern Kentuckians because we dont speak your slang, or live the life that people from harlin county do. We have exchanged information over the years. She retired in 1982. (: Did you know Jo Alice Chitwood or Lance Johnson? Basil Collins asks the sheriff, who is handling the situation in plainclothes, why he's being arrested and hears, "Disorderly conduct I guess; I don't know." Even at a tragic moment, a union veteran speaks after the death of Lawrence Jones and puts it this way: "Why couldn't it be somebody like me, some old man just about spent anyhow." Pingback: ALL ABOARD THE NERVE GAS TRAIN! I went for a while to Holy Trinity School, Harlan Elementary for one year, then to Hall before Cawood. Middlesboro Daily News - Official Site. Everywhere I go here in Ohio I run into people from Harlan or people who have relatives from there and some still living there. Miss the trains. Memorials. My dad was a teacher at JACHS from 1962 to 1968. Miner Curtis Cress, 34, says towns. today Middlesboro, KY Transportation Jobs Offered 888-909-2737. I was born and raised in Leslie County. My Dad was born in Evarts andexpect for military service and collegenever lived anywhere else. Harlan has always been divided into pro- and anti-union. Barbara Kopple as Producer. The late Norman Smith was a classmate of mine at JACHS. Unemployment in 2017 was 9.4 percent, far above the national average. Food stamps, too. After all no one I know would go north of the Ky border to see. Bertha Rose Adams Little, 65 of Cowan, passed away Saturday, February 11, 2023 at the Hazard Appalachian Regional Healthcare Center. I loved living in Ages,Ky for the 2 years I was there!! Andas for the grid: Morehead is east of Middlesboro. We know at least one person who has been shot with a gun by someone else or by themselves accidentally. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in . I was in her class the day JFK was shot in Dallas. Janice Banks Premium. The Fuzzy Duck, the Corner and the VFW. We used to be territorial based on our schools. Other than the commentary there are some other good features, such as a 20 minute long documentary about the documentary, called The Making of Harlan County, USA. THIS is just funny. I do find a lot of people think Harlan is Hazzard from the TV show, so they ask me if Harlan is in Hazzard county and if I knew Luke and Bo Duke???? I knew a bunch of Napiers (Napper). I loved growing up there and go back frequently. He was actually the son of my aunts husband, so that technically makes him a cousin, but age-wise he was more of my dads generation so that made him an uncle. One of the great things about Harlan is that changes very little. My great grandpa ran a mill there. They just inflict harm. Thanks for your comments. Of course, it doesnt. Enjoyed reading your blog. When I first saw the documentary, I was on the edge of my seat, wondering how my dad would be portrayed, but his name was never mentioned. He was the hardest worker I have ever known. As I was merrily driving along, I was suddenly chastised soundly for missing the road. When she made this movie, Kopple was one of the bravest filmmakers working. In the summer a friends Dad (The Blantons) would take us up the river in his pickup and wed spend the day floating back in rafts in the summer or wed spend all day at the city pool. All my mothers family is from Harlan (Baxter, Big Laurel, Loyall) and my heart is there. My dad was one of them, outside Tommy Lees barbershop. Now, dont confuse Harlan County with the town of Harlan, our county seat. I am sure he is talking about when he grew up and how times were then I am from Harlan live here now .I loved the article and havent read anything disrespectful . Harlan is total badass. They might as well have been in different states. Really enjoyed the read. The people of Harlan are among the nicest people I have ever met and I have traveled all over the country. But my roots are still strong an a country girl. I knew no one married to his own sister and just a handful married to their cousins. I ate government cheese as often as we got it. Were isolated. It has been both fascinating and sad as well to learn so much about the history, struggles, strength and resilience of the Harlan countians. Thanks for reminding me of a great memory of my mother! Proud to be from Harlan County.. man now im so homesick!! I was born and raised in Floyd County,I always heard my family came out of Harlan or Harlan County over a hundred years ago.I dont know if there are any STAPLETON family in Harlan anymore,I am proud to be from the HILLS OF KENTUCKY !! 1976 Harlan County U.S.A. (Documentary) Self - Mine Foreman (as Basil Collins) Edit Personal Details Alternate Names: Basil Collins Edit Did You Know? My Mom taught at SE Community College. Women took over the picket lines. Harlan County was fighting for the right to have a union. This excludes Boyd, Greenup, Lewis, etc. There are good people and bad people. I grew up in the town of Harlan, at the bottom of Ivy Hill. We were just there in July , I love going back to visit. I have neglected my research of the Leonards and McKendrick for some time because of my health problems. Thanks for the great story. So if you have a iota of respect for you mom and dad, grandma and grandpa you will correct this mess and actually write something that isnt from fifty years ago. My mother drove through Brookside to go to work every day, so I also know the strike was real. Even though life was very hard at times, it was filled with family and friends and its been fun thinking about them this morning. Youre probably thinking of Arthur Johnson. John,I also remember those 1st grade field trips. Im definitely a Harlan County boy. There are a lot of us spread over the country, but we still think of ourselves as being from Harlan. Add to home screen. Our client was suing the City of Sandy Hook. Would I be a pretender? And of that i am very proud. I remember commodity butter. You might even become a best-selling author or reality TV producer. The original Mount Aire Motel was on Pine Mountain, and it burned down in the 70s. Life in the mountains is easy or hardvery little in between. I remember when you had to take a gravel road from Pineville to Loyall when they were building the new 119. A particular obituary may be a simple two-line death notice or an elaborate biography of the deceased. I was born and raised in Harlan, KY a lil place called Sunshine. It is not, as you might think, simply the eastern half of the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is funny how people from all over the Country know where you are talking about when you say you are from Harlan Co. and many of them visibly tense on that statement. 2022-11-11T17:09:58Z. art halcomb. We lived the last house in the head of the holler with my poppy and granny our only neighbors. Most of my old mean crowd are dead. Crow Drums 70 (CHS). Delivered babies at ARH back in 87 while doing my Family Practice residency at UK. My mom grew up in Cutshin, my dad was from Martins Fork, they met at The Court Cafe. Go help someone else. No complaining here though. Different, but nice. HA! Ann was born to the late Shady and Alkie Saylor Fugate of Molus, KY on February 22, 1943. And a little c.r.a.z.y. Really enjoyed the article. Cheese is the only thing the US government ever perfected. My mom always bought margarine but our housekeeper would get the butter and we thought it was strong. 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