Today’s post is second in a series written by Ron Stephens about his father-in-law Harvey E. Corder and the Blue Heron Coal Camp located in Kentucky. You can see the first post here. Eighteen tipple reflects over my shoulder in wavy, watery gray. It is still big and strong, still casting a dark bar of shadow northward over the camp. The Company built it to last a hundred years, long enough to mine all the coal they thought they had.…
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Profiles of Mountain People
Today begins a short series of posts written by Ron Stephens about his father-in-law Harvey E. Corder and the Blue…
Today’s guest post was written by Jim Casada. Commodore and Anna Lou Casada Traditional Mountain Characteristics—Self-Reliance Among the common sayings…
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