[citation needed] She only worked sporadically after that, in guest roles on Fantasy Island (1984), Murder She Wrote (1985), Hardcastle and McCormick (1985), and Blacke's Magic (1986). SO neat to see my family talked about on here! We live in McCreary Co now, so still SEKY. And a little c.r.a.z.y. I had friends in Pathfork. Tons of great memories and good friends. I was born and raised in Harlan, KY a lil place called Sunshine. HARLAN WILL ALWAYS BE HOME TO ME. I loved growing up there and go back frequently. They arent isolated enough. 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. I dont believe Ive ever been called a mooron before. My mother is Drena Crowder-Leonard. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Friends of Oswego County Hospice, P.O. Gillis Heather Elaine. There has always been tension between those who work and those who dont or wont. Jenny, I worked in Harlan Co. in the 90s on the railroad and worked with a Saylor but cant remember his first name. I have a heavy heavy accent. If he is still living can you ask him about any Leonard relatives he know about or put him in touch with me. Thanks for the article. His name was Wiley Holmes. Its nice to read good thoughts of Harlan County. In Atlanta, some of the New Yorkers that worked with me at the ad agency used to continually ask me where I was from just to hear me say it. I have a 95 year old aunt who still lives there. Yes, Big_O,, I remember the man you asked about. The folks in Brookside were surely Harlan Countians as was the chief gun thug, Basil Collins. (She died in 1995, and I am so glad to have such good and often funny memories of her.) Crackin me up. A miner was killed by a company foreman. I left here when i was 15 came back in my late 20s. I was born in Harlan County, Louellen specifically, but moved away when I was little due to my dad being in the Navy. I appreciate all commentspositive and negative. Ishas Smiths 2nd cousin. Basil Lee Gillis Harry Blake Eric Lonas Dorvan Richmond Ed Charles Darcy Suffocation Briles Lantrip Swiney Sparks Wilhoit Griffin Doolin Lingar Templin Canady Bullock Veach Lidster Custis Winchester Kerr T.C. 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. Justified portrays Harlan as a lawless frontier of wanton violence. A meeting of the Brookside women's support group. They lived near Dionne along the river there. TO JIM CONNOR, jimmy c morgan lives in the big town of sawbriar, near wallins creek. 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. They just inflict harm. Never mind. Sometimes you hear gun fire in the distance, but thats in the woods. 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. Howard and Lucille Leonard are my grandparents. A full obituary will follow in The Daily Star. I wonder if youre related to Clarence Leonard who lived near Evarts. Dad was a good friend of Norman Yarboroughs. When we went to high school, we identified as being from Loyallor Hall or Wallins. Miner Curtis Cress, 34, says towns. I plan to continue reading your blog. She was one of my favorite. I instructed her to be on the lookout for a Harlan countian. Christy, I believe we may know each other. I visit very often, as my father still lives there. I must admit, however, that we have had few issues adjusting to Tennessee except for the color orange. Food stamps, too. I just said, hey, he was my neighbor. 2022-11-11T17:09:58Z. HARLAN COLLINS OBITUARY. But my roots are still strong an a country girl. Its bleak. Jeff Otis C. Elster Ray Ulysses Sam Benton Tilmon Floyd H. Arthur F. Charles J. Im surprised I didnt end up with some kind of lung disease. Absolutely loved this!! Kathy Ann Duncan, age 62 of Cumberland, Kentucky, passed away Thursday, February 9th, 2023, at the Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. Ive got a few more Harlan County memories. Arthur died when his house burned a few yrs ago. Someone told me that the best way to commit suicide was to stand around in Smith and act like youre counting money! I know exactly where you were driving. I graduated in 80. My dad was a teacher at JACHS from 1962 to 1968. These are small town people just like in every small town. It was tough to find two functioning seats together. A few notes: The qualifications for Eastern Kentucky status include: I hail from Harlan County, the Eastern Kentuckiest of all counties. He was from Leslie, she from Perry. Thanks for the kind comments. Maybe they just didnt have much else to do. Just kiddingabout the hate part. He told me if I stayed there I would either be an alcoholic, like him to survive, or I would end up dead. South Farmington, NS. Read my post about growing up in Loyall sometime. I REMEMBER govt. I absolutely LOVE this! Enjoyed the article. 6. I remember when you had to take a gravel road from Pineville to Loyall when they were building the new 119. I live in Texas but will always be a Harlan Co Ky girl. Middlesboro Daily News - Official Site. Sometimes, these people would show up to help us. They might as well have been in different states. February 24 . Its a nice place. 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 remember an encounter with the business end of a 38 special at the Smith lake boat ramp late one night. The culture you describe in Harlan is very similar to Leadville-only the accents are different-except for my dadhe never lost his. I need a shirt like that. Hi Julie, Yes I know your mother. To add to my previous comment above, my other Grandfather was Elijah Depew (nicknamed Lidge? I didnt like a lot of your article, some of it is accurate. Most of us pass through this phase at some point. No wonder I was overwhelmed. Caroline Andrieu for Variety. I first saw the light of day in Oneida, tn because that was the closest hospital & the road l.P. looPwas better Ive been gone for 20+ years now. Your mother was my teacher at Hall High for four years. Harlan County, USA is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company -owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky. Abe was in my class @Black Star when it was an elem. 7. I went to college and had personal and professional opportunities that pulled me away. It definitely has an Eastern Kentucky feel to it, but its out. I have got too much time and information invested in my research to keep up with to just ignore my research. It will always be home to me. From the Harlan County Journal. It tends to work to my advantage. I have enjoyed these old memories!!! Getting Started | Contributor Zone Contribute to This Page Edit page Clear your history It might have been the wrong side of the tracks, but I knew some good folks from there. She talks about taking care of her father through his health issues while also participating in the Brookside strike. They tease me that my accent changes when I cross the county line going back home :-). In reference to going swimming in the river and the city pool, we did that too. All thats left is the yard and that light. If its easy, theres nothing better. Harlan's mother was a music teacher. Fun read. I would have loved to have had that McDonalds there when I was kid. I am from Wynntown, went to Evarts High School and live in Richmond Ky. Love your response, I live in central ky for a lot of years now, but when I can go home I stay at the Comfort Inn Hotel, it is a Blessing to us out of towners, I think this page is right on, and I dont like the way most people think of Harlan, we are just like anyone else, even if we have a little accent, awesome page, and I lived in Loyall a few years also, my mother died there, thanks for letting people know that its not all justified, although I have never watched a full episode, they are awful. 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. Harlan graduated from Readstown High School in 1949. 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! producer Cinematography by Film Editing by Production Management Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Anne Lewis . Loved this! We have mountains all around us. The Fuzzy Duck, the Corner and the VFW. It is true that you can take the boy out of the mountains but never the mountain out of the boy. My dad was certainly a bad ass, growing up in a time and place that required that to survive. Mikes Drive In was in Loyall. Thats when people get their checks. I know that area, well, too. I knew a bunch of Napiers (Napper). I can connect with outlanders here in Georgetown by telling them, I was there the day that McDonalds opened..great times! So, I guess Im just arguing it is in the wrong state Knox County. I called some place the other day, got an automated machine.your name, address, (Im sorryI didnt get that could you repeat that again. Nothing like the beauty of a snow covered mountain, springtime with sprinkles of dogwoods and redbud blossoms or the beautiful fall foliage! I dont know. You dont see that every day. It was described as a place where people only smiled when they heard that someone had died. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in . John,I also remember those 1st grade field trips. Again, they are excluded because of lack of isolation. When we heard a car coming we knew we were having company.we usually hid to see who it was. If not, you should. We once had a train full of nerve gas pass through Loyall. your a fuckin mooron ive lived here all my life ,my family pioneered this place ,both sides, why arent u still living here? Searching obituaries is a great place to start your family tree research. You talked funny. Government checks. as differences, real ones, but the rest is a little over stated, like JUSTIFIED, eh? I spent a lot of hours and burned up a lot of powder and boot leather grouse hunting in Pathfork and Black Star. I was born and raised in Harlan County and we moved to Alabama in 1952 when I was 12 years old. I guess teenagers everywhere just hang out. If we had a problem like that today in my slice of Suburbia, there would be a full-blown panic. Art worked in one of the maintenance departments (cant remember which one). jack brock ha d 21 dogs and 21 kids, he got kill by a drunk man he was taking home that was about like the earth quake in los ang years ago it was bad , for those who know my grandpa honey bill saylor and my dad and my friend big al ,arnold lee saylor he was a damn good man i miss alot cause he is in all my boys alot i see him every day yours trunly ronnie gene saylor of molus ky aka molus hollow. Wayne brought u shea and ur mom n I think he took pictures. My dad spent much of childhood there in the 30s. I guarantee you that my Dad knew your father. Thats pretty cool. We mourn with the family of Basil Collins for this great loss. Harlan is tough. Honestly, it took me years to adapt. I know that area well. I was born and raised in Harlan County, from Jones Creek, graduated from Evarts High. Vacation at Hilton Head, Tybee Island, Myrtle Beach, Hawaii, have an American Spirit Coachman that sleeps ten and a pontoon. I am origionally from Atlanta. She agreed. We didnt all drink Mountain Dew as babies. I have three amazing great-grandbabies. Im an outlander, living in Pulaski County. 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. I made another U turn and started back toward Harlan at a much slower pace and was directed to take the Loyall turn off. Thanks for letting me rant. That is where my husband grew up. I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN HARLAN,CO. Dont say we are not eastern Kentuckians because we dont speak your slang, or live the life that people from harlin county do. I do think this is good stuff. . Whitley County is troublesome. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 49th Academy Awards . Life in the mountains is easy or hardvery little in between. Who are we? For you truly arent a Harlanian, to show such disrespect. By Steven Gaydos. Didnt know him well, but I remember him. Remember all the men that used to hang out around the courthouse, sitting on the little wall? We didnt have that problem when I lived there. Brought back alot of memories. 1944 - 2023 ONEONTA - Ronald G. Peters, 78, passed away Feb. 1, 2023, at his home. 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. It is my hometown by choice.I love it, I retired from Ky Dept of Trans (engineering). I bet I heard them talking about you. ha! Where you from?..Pike Countylol. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . It still is in some ways, although it has been many years since the United Mine Workers Association held great sway. Rest assured that no one in my family considers me a disgrace or embarrassment, but your concern is noted. I just found this wonderful Blog! She is survived by her sons, Nicholas George Ingemi Matthews and Eugene Christopher Hanc. Crusenberry talks about being asked by a group of women to . I had to laugh at your reference to government cheese. It really was good stuff! He was born on August 21, 1964. March 9, 1997. Alan Creech, such nice thoughts and memories of this beautiful part of God earth that I am proud to call home. We only periodically had a movie theater, the fabulous Margie Grand in Harlan. heres the link: Theres no future. Death Notice. Helped me so much when I worked there. I JUST RAN ACROSS YOUR CONVERSATION AND THOUGHT I WOULD COMMENT ON HARLAN KY. Most of my old mean crowd are dead. loved her. Mostly, we didnt do much, because there wasnt much to do. Town is flooded with people. I was in Wallins Creeks all day Saturday visiting my niece and stayed at my Mothers in Rhea. I go there to visit, and it has improved somewhat, but I like my central Ky home in LaRue county much better. Thanks for the kind words. I still have family in Cawood and Baxter but I dont get up there much.. Jennifer, I moved to the Tampa Bay area when I was four and a half. A native of Fulton, he was a life resident of the Fulton-Volney area. but was always glad to talk to her by phone. She was a great homemaker and was full of wit, wisdom and love. I also would talk to Art at the store in Loyall, where I would stop to get gas. Basil was a neighbor of ours when I was a kid, so I know he was real. They didnt know what to do with me! Thanks. Bad-ass wasnt the first word to come to mind, but I sure didnt want to mess with those folk! I remember commodity butter. 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!! Basil Collins Harlan County Obituary, Exchange office contact details: Contact Point: Mrs . She was retired from the Harlan County Board of Education, where she worked at the Wallins School. the Ackley Hotel in Harlan until he retired and moved back to Cumberland. Whats up with that? He used to go visit with Norman during the strike. My mom always bought margarine but our housekeeper would get the butter and we thought it was strong. Nowadays, I would love to have some! In fact, when I was down there on business a couple of years ago, I saw a couple hanging out in front of rock store. Love love love Harlan County Kentucky and the people. "I bought him out after seven. It has been both fascinating and sad as well to learn so much about the history, struggles, strength and resilience of the Harlan countians. Fine set of words here! This, so they say, makes them mountain people. No worries. 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. I graduated in 1964. Yes. 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. We are related to at least one coal miner. Knew a few Edsels which I never met outside Harlan! 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. 3. No one from Harlan . Its amazing how many of Moms students I still run into. I saw a little of all of it. It has to be kind of tough to get there or at the very least its just on the way to somewhere else. On future blog give Watts Creek a mention. 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