Ishas Smiths 2nd cousin. John,I also remember those 1st grade field trips. He died in a house fire a few years ago. My little brother had a knife pulled on him at Cawood. One of the women told her story about him telling her about the gun he had on the seat next to him, under a rag and that if she brought that stick down on his car, he would use it. I love your wifes Loll great story! Now, dont confuse Harlan County with the town of Harlan, our county seat. Trivia: He was a survivor of the Bataan Death March. Its nice to remember, though. They just hang around and complain. Kentucky. I dont believe Ive ever been called a mooron before. Ring any bells? Once you push too far north, you get out of the mountains, and we have to exclude you. I was born and raised in Liggett. There are a lot of Harlan Countians that are very happy to be called just that. I remember when you had to take a gravel road from Pineville to Loyall when they were building the new 119. There were several Leonard families in the county in my day. Still have family there. You havent had a grilled cheese sandwich until youve had one made with govment cheese, govment butter and fresh Bunny Bread. Irene Whitehead Clark. Just curious, if you struggled with the inclusion of Whitley county..what was your rationale for the inclusion of mccreary county? Happy to be an Outlander! Isolation. March 9, 1997. She was 30 (now 76) years old. Abe was in my class @Black Star when it was an elem. Have lived in SC for the past 25 yrs but everyone who knows me knows where I come from. Pingback: Hometown Loyall-ty | Coal Troll's Blog. I am still Harlan County thru and thru. Hi aurea, Ive helped ur grand paw make many many gallons of moonshine just over the hill from ur mom n dads house. My younger brother and I were born and raised in Dayton. I was told if I was ever alone at night that they would kill me, so I promised the head gun thug, Basil Collins, he wouldn't catch me alone at night. Nolan, age seventy-one, is a retired miner. I absolutely LOVE this! 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. John. These are small town people just like in every small town. The accuracy of the index varies according to the quality of the original images. Ive got a few more Harlan County memories. She always bought some, even though she was never sure if doing so was legal. Although we certainly werent poor, Government Cheese is excellent, and my Dad would get us a block whenever he could. Second, my parents lived in Harlan County their entire lives, as have aunts, uncles, cousins and many of my closest friends. If its hard, its hopeless. I definitely would NOT have fit in. I am so grateful to the educators in Harlan who worked so diligently to open our minds, expand our thinking and develop our talents especially in music. Grew up in Loyall. Good to hear from you. 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 !! The hills and hollers made me who I am today and the people I love still call Eastern Kentucky home. Our football coach , Ed Miracle, was shot in the foot playing golf three weeks later . We werent eligible for cheese, either, but my Dad would get it anyway! After all no one I know would go north of the Ky border to see. Youve made me think about Harlan all day today and its been a good day. Just discovered your blog. I knew Lisa vaguely. I try to go back a couple times a year, for nostalgia as much as bagging those elusive, scarce birds. Then it was quiet except when the trains ran, which seemed like every 15 minutes or so. Take care. Im not from Kentucky saw this blog post through a friends facebook but Ive really enjoyed reading it and the comments! There are doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, coaches, laborers, deadbeats and criminals. November 20, 1931 - January 8, 2023 Harlan Price passed away peacefully at the age of 91 years with his wife Harriet at his side. There arent running gun battles anymore like the famed Battle of Evarts many decades ago. Some escape, but most dont. I love being from there. I also have those wonderful memories, of making grilled cheese sandwiches in the evening, after supper when we as children, never seem to be really full. The previous mentioned Clarence E. Leonard is my Uncle. Congrats on a good job describing a little bit of what most folks cant imagine happened. My kids do that, too. If you do so, you wont be called a bigot or a phobe of any type. Like you, I loved growing up there but couldnt see myself living there now. Im happy living here. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards . Crusenberry talks about being asked by a group of women to . The other side was the Lounge, a long, narrow open room with a dance floor. 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. One of the greatest victories won by the efforts of the wives is the arrest of Basil Collins, the de facto leader of the "scabs", workers who are hired by the company to provide labor in the event of the strike. He was my English teacherand a good one at that. Me, my brother and sister went to church every Sundaywe werent allowed to even go to the toilet until after church. 1750 Hwy 213. Box 102, Oswego, New York 13126. He died in 1978, I dont remember the year Basil died, but early 1980s is right. Region. My cousin posted the link on Facebook and I have not been able to move till finishing the read. My roots and my heart are there and for me thats important. Even though I had been lots of places, leaving Harlan took me out of my comfort zone. Like to have all the money I spent in those places back! I was in the 7th grade at Evarts when we moved. Im surprised I didnt end up with some kind of lung disease. My children are fascinated and perhaps slightly horrified that I grew up in Harlan. When she made this movie, Kopple was one of the bravest filmmakers working. West Family Funeral Services is the primary provider of funeral and cremation services that create a healing experience for families and their loved ones. Some are like me. Pic from Harlan County USA of a Coal Camp. We always found lots of mutual interest things to gab about. You shouldve had to breath half a can of hairspray in the morning after he got out of the bathroom. Look at my blog post Adventures in Hitchhiking, and youll see a story about JImmy picking me up hitchhiking one night. Were isolated. Harlan's mother was a music teacher. One hell of a nice fellow. Elliott County. Dad was a good friend of Norman Yarboroughs. http://www.kentuckytourism.com/places_to_stay/holiday-inn-express/73/ just saying. My momma cooked on a coal fired cookstove. An obituary will follow. A meeting of the Brookside women's support group. Harlan County, Kentucky: Basil Collins miner foreman and leader/manager of the scabs confronts picketers with a 45 in his right pocket. I loved it AFTER the mob left that came to my door the day I moved in, demanding to know Who are you and what are you doing here? Coal Mining. We were just there in July , I love going back to visit. They might as well have been in different states. Its a kind of mountain street cred. Goodbye Fleming, Nicholas and Robertson Counties. We laugh at them but let them have their fun. The folks in Brookside were surely Harlan Countians as was the chief gun thug, Basil Collins. Among this crowd are those that my father called off the grid. He said we had a sub-culture of people so far off the creek that they werent plugged in to the modern world. ha! It is a tragedy what Black Jewell Coal company has done to honest, hard working coal Harlan County USAdivides us into two groups: Those that love it and those that hate it. I, too, am from Harlan an outlander like yourself, and I was left laughing and shaking my head at all the things only people like us would know to be true I would love to include a link to this in my own blog, but I dont yet know how to do it, lol. I was born and raised in Harlan County-Cumberland. You have to sound like us. Murdered while on a picket line in Harlan County KY, After his death an agreement was signed between the miners and the union! LOL. They tease me that my accent changes when I cross the county line going back home :-). Its boring. I guess Ive waited too many years to ask, but it would be nice if someone knew of him or my other Grandfather Bill Randolph. Glover Allan (Al) Amherst, NS. Obituaries of Harlan Funeral Home. I remember commodity butter. They might even live in Harlan, but it doesnt suit them. An outlander is someone who used to live in Harlan. I guess this was one of many reasons my dad thought California was a good choice for me. Add to home screen. I am doing a genealogy study on the Leonards, McKendricks and Boteler families who lived at one time in Harlan County and some that still do. You can see it in Google Street Views here: https://goo.gl/maps/QoyKa, Hey my cousin owned the fuzzy duck my papa had a poker house there and boot legged beer iwas raised in the first house coming down black mountain love it go back all the time, Right before you get to lynch golf course coming down black mtn there was a house to the right my great great grand pa had a saw mill there and built the house where my great grand pa lived then my mama got it love it there if I ever hit the lottery ill be back to live and put alot of people to work I love the mtns go there every christmas and summers thanks for the memories cool blog sorry for the grammer lol periods commas all the same to me it. I own a piece of railroad track on the Rhea Straight. More than 450 new Canadian obituaries add each day. I was born in Pike County but grew up in Flatwoods in Greenup County. Jenny, I worked in Harlan Co. in the 90s on the railroad and worked with a Saylor but cant remember his first name. U may or may not remember it and I also did alot of the fencing around the many many acres he and ur moms own. My parents who were also my papaw and mamaw owned Tiny Jos market in Baxter. I graduated from Cumberland High School in 1975. We also suffer from stereotyping. I rarely saw Janice after I left the hospital, 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 . And they didnt. You nailed it. Hollywood Bledsoe from the mouth of Cloverlick in HC, once wrote a song about Government Cheese. Most OUTSIDE THE COUNTY shopping, doctors visits, etc were in Tennessee How do we know they dont live in a ghetto. This excludes Boyd, Greenup, Lewis, etc. Spent a lot of time at the top of the hill up Watts Creek. Brought back alot of memories. Pingback: My Life in Harlan County | Williams Kilpatrick, PLLC. February 24, 2023. Get directions And of course, I mean that in a funny, I`m laughing kind of way. I found a place to turn around and get back down the road and get my act together. In reference to going swimming in the river and the city pool, we did that too. I was born in Harlan County, Louellen specifically, but moved away when I was little due to my dad being in the Navy. Born and raised as you said in Lynch You pretty much hit the nail on the head.. great write-up. Georgetown Telegraph Obituaries 1811-1813 (enter "obituary" in keywords) Harlan Daily Enterprise Obituaries - (11/17/2005-Current) at Genealogy Bank ($) Henson & Rich Funeral Home Obituaries in Harlan KY. Kentucky Death Index 1911-1992 at familysearch.org. Very proud of my heritage. North America. Salinas - Longtime Salinas resident Basil Eugene Mills passed away peacefully on January 14, 2022, at the age of 91. I must say it is a great read. They find it hard to believe we had no fast food restaurants. I spent at least a week during the summer vacation every year growing up visiting the Harlan area and family enjoying every visit which included rail road tracks and slate dumps on one side of house and the Cumberland River on the other side all residing in a big holler off HWY 38. I didnt want to leave. Glad that youre happy in whatever metro area you moved to. The field is backdropped by some beautiful mountains, right at Tunnel Hill. Sometimes you hear gun fire in the distance, but thats in the woods. I will say Harlan is a great place to be from, I would not want to raise my kids there because of all the struggles I went through, and all the people I knew while growing up there. Im sorry my great-grandchildren dont have such memories. She used it for many recipes, everything from casseroles to sauces. A miner was killed by a company foreman. There has always been tension between those who work and those who dont or wont. | Coal Troll's Blog, My Life in Harlan County | Williams Kilpatrick, PLLC. There was nothing like sitting on the front porch swing drinking RCs from my uncles one room store. One day I kidding with a guy about something he was buying and at some point he says that hes from Mingo, West Virginia. Food stamps, too. I lived across Pine Mtn. Much later in life we got married and we were on vacation going south to visit her sister who lived back home. That is certainly true, but I must say that those unfortunates (if thats what they are) are the in minority.. Maybe they were hoping to see (or experience) some kind of catastrophe. Myself, Im from Loyall which is three miles from the town of Harlan. loved this. I was one of the Hensley girls that lived on the strawberry farm. They go to other parts of the state or country and live as ex-Harlan Countians. Now kids go to Harlan County High School which consumed Cawood, Evarts and Cumberland High Schools. Managed by: Carlton William . You might even become a best-selling author or reality TV producer. 1976 Harlan County U.S.A. (Documentary) Self - Mine Foreman (as Basil Collins) Edit Personal Details Alternate Names: Basil Collins Edit Did You Know? We got segregation in those years, and I never knew the difference, we all got along. Its nice to read good thoughts of Harlan County. I need a shirt like that. Surviving is her husband: Lee Banks; 1 son: Timothy Lee Banks of Whitesburg; 2 daughters: Beverly (Tim) Lawson of Roxanna . I know exactly where you were driving. I was about 11-12 and I remember we played outside constantly. Required fields are marked *. We used to be territorial based on our schools. They often do not contain the death . Btw, the Mount Victory part of this county feels very Eastern KY. Just found the blog and enjoyed it. 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