(: Did you know Jo Alice Chitwood or Lance Johnson? 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. What did he end up doing after the strikes? Love love love Harlan County Kentucky and the people. We can be called ignorant, inbred, genetically inferior, toothless, shoelessyou name it. One day I kidding with a guy about something he was buying and at some point he says that hes from Mingo, West Virginia. Both our families are made up of longtime coal miners and school teachers. Each letter she wrote me held the news. Being 60yrs old now, I am very proud of my ancestors and family heritage. Were from coal mining stock. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Born on. . Also attended and graduated from Loyall High, where I was cheerleader and fairly popular. The original Mount Aire Motel was on Pine Mountain, and it burned down in the 70s. Me, my brother and sister went to church every Sundaywe werent allowed to even go to the toilet until after church. He was 45 (88) years old when He died. The Fuzzy Duck, the Corner and the VFW. I dont think I have an accent but get me out of Pike County and they all say I do. I married a Lady, born and raised in Harlan. Then it was quiet except when the trains ran, which seemed like every 15 minutes or so. She was a great homemaker and was full of wit, wisdom and love. 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." Phyllis Lorene Gardenhire 82, of Salina passed away, Friday, February 17, 2023. Browse Obituaries and Death Records in Middlesboro, Kentucky. My mom is from Cote (Evarts) I cant wait to read this to her! View most recent obituaries published on the Web by funeral homes for province of Nova Scotia. ENJOYED YOUR ARTICLE, WOULDNT TRADE THE PLACE I GREW UP FOR ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD . . I owned a genteel little social club called THE CLIFFHANGER up on pine mountain, and had some of the finest folks i ever knew as customers, although mostly they considered the Garys crowd a little on the gentler side. I was mostly raised In Floyd Co. KY & did live in Grundy , Va. at one time. 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. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Barbara Kopple Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification Produced by Barbara Kopple . One hell of a nice fellow. I happened across this blog through a friend. Ronald Peters. I have no information on a Clarence Leonard in our family tree. We lived the last house in the head of the holler with my poppy and granny our only neighbors. We hung out at Denny Rays, Kens and I cant remember the drive in on the road to Loyall?? Give me about 30 minutes, and its like I never left. In reference to going swimming in the river and the city pool, we did that too. No worries. Thats righttheyll pretend. A few notes: The qualifications for Eastern Kentucky status include: I hail from Harlan County, the Eastern Kentuckiest of all counties. Are we still allowed to be in Appalachia? He had a taxi service called Do me right He was found on the side of the mountain with many bullets in him and his taxi. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in . Its still pretty much the same. Im from graysknob, pine branch was were I lived till I was 17 then we moved to Putney. I made the mistake of posting a picture of Basil on a Harlan County Facebook page. The accuracy of the index varies according to the quality of the original images. We have corresponded back and forth for several years about our Leonard connections. I wouldnt trade my life for anyone else. North America. Searching obituaries is a great place to start your family tree research. I was born in Atlanta and moved here when my step-daddy (forevermore referred to as daddy) and my momma met when he was proudly serving this country.He a handsome young man from the mountainsshe a beautiful divorced young woman with two small children. Its boring. A spokesman for the Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital said Mr. Bruner, who was shot with a . At Kopple, among others. Fine set of words here! February 23, 2023. Photoplay, 'I Saved My Brother's Life,' by Helen Martin, p. 94, February 1967. My mother drove through Brookside to go to work every day, so I also know the strike was real. ha! Their isnt anyone who acts the way you have described them in this concoction, Nor is the area the way you have presented it. I was looking for the turnoff to Loll. Like you, I loved growing up there but couldnt see myself living there now. I dont need tattoos, i have scars. It was gray and you had to add the coloring to it. I told him apparently his computer didt speak Hillbilly.I am proud of my head of the holler rasin. I aint convinced about mccounty Glover Allan (Al) Amherst, NS. She stayed there for a few months but felt things just werent the same so she moved back to Newport News where she had made some good friends. Janice Banks Premium. On this criterion, Robertson County would qualify, but again, its just too far north. 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. Yes, we have folks living in povertytoo many (as though there is an acceptable level of suffering) but most folks live just fine. Dad used have him mow for us sometimes. The old structure is still up there on Pine Mountain. My dads cousin J.R. Williams owned a shoe shop (cobble shop) in Cumberland. Were about the same age. It even had an old balcony whererumor had itblack folks used to be seated. It will always be home to me. 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. I couldnt quit reading it. We used to be territorial based on our schools. The motel next to Holy Trinity was a Holiday Inn Express at one time, but now its a Comfort Inn. 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. 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. Barbara Kopple as Producer. They point to the many fine folks in the county who were (and still are) horrified by the goings on at Eastover. Not many folks have a clue of my history, and thats fine. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and just being outdoors. People were practically hanging on it. I grew up in Eastern Kentuckyborn and raised as we say. It is my hometown by choice.I love it, I retired from Ky Dept of Trans (engineering). There are good people and bad people. Welfare checks. Did you live here? Charlotte, Eaton County, MI, United States Immediate Family: Husband of Neta Belle Collins Father of Robert Basil Collins and Private Collins. Again, they are excluded because of lack of isolation. I made another U turn and started back toward Harlan at a much slower pace and was directed to take the Loyall turn off. 1944 - 2023 ONEONTA - Ronald G. Peters, 78, passed away Feb. 1, 2023, at his home. Trust me on this one. No one from Harlan . What Mountains besides the one on the border with Virginia, Black Mt.(?)? Lots of good folks from across the mountain.. So, I guess Im just arguing it is in the wrong state 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? I remember it seemed like every time my high school played Cawood there was a knife fight. preston and i have lived here in lexington since 1999. bu i consider loyall and that little house my adopted home. The only tv stations the antenna could pick up were out of knoxville John I cant believe you didnt even mention the no nothin about. What do you suppose that would translate into? Pic from Harlan County USA of a Coal Camp. Whitley County has an interstate so are they still Eastern Kentucky? I KNOW A LOT OF REALLY GOOD PEOPLE AT CAWOOD AND SMITH, KY. I lived through that strike, my dad was in charge of security for Eastover, so I guess that made him the head gun thug to many. https://www.facebook.com/groups/WallinsCreekers/, http://www.kentuckytourism.com/places_to_stay/holiday-inn-express/73/, SoWhere Are You From? The rest of us (that includes me) hate the image of Harlan Countians as violent, uneducated hooligans. My mother drove through Brookside to go to work every day, so I also know the strike was real. Never mind. The truth, of course, probably lies somewhere in the middle. They dont say that because of my accent, since I only have one when I go back there. I guess this was one of many reasons my dad thought California was a good choice for me. Helped me so much when I worked there. You hit the nail on the head. Harlan is not what it used to be and I would never want to live there again, but your blog awakened the beautiful memory of what it was. View Recent Obituaries for Bianchi Funeral Homes Evarts~Harlan~Loyall~Tri City. I JUST RAN ACROSS YOUR CONVERSATION AND THOUGHT I WOULD COMMENT ON HARLAN KY. 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. Rachel Elaine Smith, 46 Mynatt Funeral Home, Halls Chapel. I just found this wonderful Blog! I also would talk to Art at the store in Loyall, where I would stop to get gas. Sometimes you hear gun fire in the distance, but thats in the woods. Just curious, if you struggled with the inclusion of Whitley county..what was your rationale for the inclusion of mccreary county? Never making any differences in us. Your dad was a really good teacher. Thats when people get their checks. Hi Julie, Yes I know your mother. I am an outlander from Bell County and so enjoyed reading this! I have to say, I know of nobody named Lonzo. Enjoyed the article. I grew up in the town of Harlan, at the bottom of Ivy Hill. I really hacked off one guy about the government cheese. Finished my last year in high school from there. Basil was a neighbor of ours when I was a kid, so I know he was real. Loved reading your blog and reminiscingI was raised in Harlan County both parents having been from there. My Mom and grandparents are gone now but I have always continued to visit with relatives in Harlan every summer. We are our own world. Rich Montjoy, I am replying to your post because you didnt say anything bad about Harlan, (Harlan County), Ky. Clarences family was pretty small. Region. Im from Loyall. He evidently hasnt been to Harlan lately. Thanks. I graduated from Cumberland High School in 1975. Basil Collins Harlan County Obituary, He also served in the 4th Supply Company, in Stockton, California. Pingback: ALL ABOARD THE NERVE GAS TRAIN! I bet I heard them talking about you. Bloody Harlan is just badass. That I can remember but I cant find my car in the parking lot? Even though I havent lived there in many years, I still visit. I havent lived in Harlan in 30 year, but if someone asks where Im from, Harlan is the immediate response. Town is flooded with people. Jeff Otis C. Elster Ray Ulysses Sam Benton Tilmon Floyd H. Arthur F. Charles J. Im actually kind of offended by your antics and false information. I graduated in 71 from JACHS. We were not eligible for the government cheese, but my aunt was, & she would always bring us some, every month. Local obituaries for Harlan County, Kentucky 531 Results Friday, February 24, 2023 Add Photos 1 Memory Debbie Elaine Absher Debbie Elaine Absher, 72, of Bean Station, TN, passed away. As usual John you nailed it!! Arthur died when his house burned a few yrs ago. They go to other parts of the state or country and live as ex-Harlan Countians. If we had a problem like that today in my slice of Suburbia, there would be a full-blown panic. We know at least one person whose mother was really their grandmother, and sister was their mother. There are doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, coaches, laborers, deadbeats and criminals. She went back to Harlan as soon as she was discharged. Kathy believed in the Pentecostal Faith and loved the Lord. Born and raised in Harlan, graduated from HHS in 1974, and UK in 78.went to work in Washington DC.talk about culture shock! You might even become a best-selling author or reality TV producer. A full obituary will follow in The Daily Star. Alfredia Miniard Kenney February 10, 2023 (91 years old) Everything is right on! We have mountains all around us. Much of the information presented here is recapitulated in the commentary, but it is interesting to see how over three decades of age have affected some of the film's participants. We wore machine guns with semiautomatic carbines. Brought back alot of memories. I think we overlapped at Cawood for a year. I was about 11-12 and I remember we played outside constantly. 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. Knew a few Edsels which I never met outside Harlan! We had a wonderful daughter and divorced when she was nine. art halcomb. This excludes Boyd, Greenup, Lewis, etc. I still call Harlan home, and as our family decreases, we return to our home to rest in Resthaven until we are all reunited in the hereafter. Oh, i think these shows are a joke, they couldnt do the truth,,, thank you, Lane. I feel like they are missing something that we experienced, but so is life. Help me out with what category to look at to fi the hitchhiking story. The children of Harlan are blessed to have such a nice school. She retired in 1982. Harlan is quiet, unless you grew up near the railroad tracks like I did. It has been both fascinating and sad as well to learn so much about the history, struggles, strength and resilience of the Harlan countians. And of course, I mean that in a funny, I`m laughing kind of way. I was born, raised and still live in Pike County. My Grandfather/Grandmother was Floyd/Janie Clark. They might have gone to college or joined the military. I left a long time ago and went back to live there once for a few years. My people have been there for over 200 years, since before it was Harlan. It's hard to take Basil seriously until he's shooting. Nolan, age seventy-one, is a retired miner. We have accents which are obscured by our penchant for mumbling. My best friend (not from Harlan) went to Saudi Arabia as a traveling nurse. 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. The folks in Brookside were surely Harlan Countians as was the chief gun thug, Basil Collins. I ate government cheese as often as we got it. Harlan is total badass. No complaining here though. Proud to be from Harlan County.. man now im so homesick!! Add to home screen. Harlan's mother was a music teacher. A rural county of 27,000, Harlan County's average household income is about $29,000. Janice and I were both switchboard operators and admissions clerk. They tease me that my accent changes when I cross the county line going back home :-). We know at least one person who has been shot with a gun by someone else or by themselves accidentally. Miss the trains. She was born on August 13, 1960, in Benham, Kentucky. My grandad lived and mined Stone Ky, in Pike County. So you see, all of this rambling I have just done is to state the obvious because you have made us sound like we are backwoods, unlearned, in-bred no accounts. I went for a while to Holy Trinity School, Harlan Elementary for one year, then to Hall before Cawood. I appreciate all commentspositive and negative. I found a place to turn around and get back down the road and get my act together. They just hang around and complain. Still have a few family members there and many friends. 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). We drive Chryslers, BMWs, Honda Van, Subaru sports car, Chevy pick-up, Harleys, Hondas, Yamaha V-stars-4-wheelers. Very isolated. Some are like me. Im sorry my great-grandchildren dont have such memories. They dont like being from Harlan. And a little c.r.a.z.y. The women have help, of course. A particular obituary may be a simple two-line death notice or an elaborate biography of the deceased. Sometimes, these people would show up to help us. I have been gone for 40 years I still have my Harlan Co accent and the kids have lost their Eastern Ky accent. I LOVE where i am from and am harlan county proud even when i dont have much to be proud of.lol. Good memories there. Even though they have visited my homeland many times, they remain baffled by it. Where you from?..Pike Countylol. Again I will say Harlan is a great place to be from but I would not want to live there today. 1939 - 1945 World War II - Ages: 29 - 24 years. We also have accents, heavy mountain accentsthe kind that can be indecipherable even to natives of the area. My Mom then joined the WAC. Fun read. Brings back so many memories. Most of my old mean crowd are dead. Harlan County USAdivides us into two groups: Those that love it and those that hate it. Now, sadly, its a way of life in the mountains. There are a lot of us spread over the country, but we still think of ourselves as being from Harlan. Have you checked out Welcome To Watts Creek site? A bazillion of cousins to play with..mountains to explore..farm animals to learn about, a total difference than city life on a quiet street just across from Fort McPherson Army Base. Pingback: My Life in Harlan County | Williams Kilpatrick, PLLC. I graduated Harlan HS, UK, then moved to NYC, culture shock! Look at my blog post Adventures in Hitchhiking, and youll see a story about JImmy picking me up hitchhiking one night. 4. Oh, you might go to Garys Lounge and Roller Rink sometimes. I do not intend to change it now and I am NOT ashamed of it. Required fields are marked *. So translation you perhaps do not have no prospect of progress which would mean you do have prospect of progress.. you are right few have paid you such complements. I once met a police officer who worked in the State Police in Harlan, he visibly tensed when I said I was from Harlan, went ashen when I said I was from Smith, and excused himself when I said I was a Middleton. Im not sure where you found this, but most folks realize that some of it is tongue-in-cheek. All my mothers family is from Harlan (Baxter, Big Laurel, Loyall) and my heart is there. Harlan is tough. Raised with his brother Dale and cousins. Thanks! If youre spending the night in Harlan, you probably have family there anyway. It is not, as you might think, simply the eastern half of the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. Sometimes, the film would jam and you could watch it melt. Police said in February 2013, Shell murdered Ronnie King, a former Evarts mayor, and set his house on fire . I enjoyed your blog ..I too left Harlan to find work ..I recently got turned down for a job doing private duty nurses aide for a new client because I was from Harlan ..The job interview started out very well until she ask where I was from I had an accent 24 years later I still have that accent I think she was worried I was packing a gun..to funny ..love my Harlan county roots ..from Wallins.. ..Oh yeah agree with everyone loved that Gov, cheese. Thank you so much for this, it came at a time when I needed to count my blessings, and being born in Liggett, and raised in Pansy, I truly was blessed. Glad I did not move here and my kids there, My children have been able to say they are from Eastern Ky as both were born down there. It is good to hear from you and I hope to hear from you again. I am a badass.. More than 450 new Canadian obituaries add each day. Iowa Gravestones is a genealogy project with over one million gravestone photos from across 99 Iowa Counties. Mostly, we just hung out. I am VERY new to the blogging world. Stumbled across your post. My husband and I are the black sheep as I am an attorney and my husband is an accountant. Alan Creech, such nice thoughts and memories of this beautiful part of God earth that I am proud to call home. Harlan has always been divided into pro- and anti-union. Kathy Ann Duncan, age 62 of Cumberland, Kentucky, passed away Thursday, February 9th, 2023, at the Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. My sister in law was born over in Leatherwood. When I was young, the Government Cheese truck looked like a scene from an African relief mission. The good ones liked my Dad if not, oh well. I was able to buy it when we lived in the Corbin area for $20 a box. Im proud of where Im from and yes my Daddy was a coal miner for a time. My Uncle Ralph Leonard was Pastor at the Baxter Methodist Church before it was moved. I suspect its mostly because they didnt care much for Hustler, at least not publicly. Obituaries; Photos; Podcasts; Scene; We didnt all drink Mountain Dew as babies. Wouldnt trade it for anything. She was stationed in Newport News, Virginia when the war ended. I suggest you search my blog for my many other posts about life in Harlan County. I am also thankful for the brief time that I knew my grandmother on Turner Hill who taught me how to grow strawberries, to make jelly, string shuck beans, quilt, crochet. However, I always tell my two teenagers that some of the smartest people they will ever meet come from the mountains of Kentucky and may have never finished high school! Now 75, Chester has endured his share of losses. Nobody has ever even looked at me sideways up there; theyve always treated me well. Russell Swanson, 58 of Cawood, passed away on February 7, 2023 at Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. I rarely saw Janice after I left the hospital, My Dad used to talk about when they distributed commodity margarine. 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 had him for a health class. I was one of the Hensley girls that lived on the strawberry farm. I was born and raised in Harlan, KY a lil place called Sunshine. Pingback: Im Baaaackmaybe | Coal Troll's Blog, Loyall kid hereloved finding this. I went to Business College, married my daddys cousin (you had to know that was coming didnt you). They had no desire to ever live anywhere else. Thanks. I dont live in Harlan now, but Im still a Harlan Countian. The county is big, about 50 miles across, but sparsely populated. Guide to Harlan County, Kentucky ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. Would I be a pretender? The late Norman Smith was a classmate of mine at JACHS. I own a piece of railroad track on the Rhea Straight. Vacation at Hilton Head, Tybee Island, Myrtle Beach, Hawaii, have an American Spirit Coachman that sleeps ten and a pontoon. Ive lived a few places in east ky, but never been to Harlan. Thanks. Take care. The name of the area now came to be because the truckers that hauled from the mill just refrerred to it as Holmes Mill! . Bad-ass wasnt the first word to come to mind, but I sure didnt want to mess with those folk! No wonder I was overwhelmed. Jenny Lynn (Saylor) Moore I was born and raised in Wallins ,lived there until I was 28 moved to Florida w/ My husband David Moore from Graysknob, we both graduated from James A. Cawood, My heart is still in the mountains, you can take the girl out of the country but you cant take the country out of the girl, we long to come back some someday Lord willing, I am a Harlan girl to the bone. This has been the driver to be obsessive about work and a career. My mother grew up in Cumberland and knew tons of Creeches from up that way. She graduated from Cumberland High School. Oh, well. His name was Arthur Johnson, he was from Cumberland, but lived at Hart Perry as Director of Photography. I think they graduated in the same class at Cawood. We mispronounce light, fight, white and night. Andas for the grid: Morehead is east of Middlesboro. Ill say Im from Harlan, but dont get confused. loved her. I graduated in 80. I was born in Harlan and I remember living there, but I didnt have the experience that my parents had (who were both born in Harlan County) since I didnt grow up there. Also as a child there was a Ski Lodge and slopes on Black Mountain. "I bought him out after seven. 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 . Harlan County. Caroline Andrieu for Variety. Garys was a fun place. We like people to think wed kill them for some trivial reason. I left first to attend Cumberland College, then only a two year school, and later was forced to leave and gravitate north for employment. HARLAN WILL ALWAYS BE HOME TO ME. Have lived in SC for the past 25 yrs but everyone who knows me knows where I come from. I know that area, well, too. It rated right up there with his song about Jim and Tammy Baker, pretty good actually. Just discovered your blog. When we heard a car coming we knew we were having company.we usually hid to see who it was. 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. Were the last group thatcan openly derided. Disability checks. Unless you lived in the town of Harlan, you dont go to the city schoolsHarlan High Elementary and Harlan High School. Art worked in one of the maintenance departments (cant remember which one). 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