what happened to basil collins harlan county

The vast majority of Harlan Countians are proud to be from Harlan. I guarantee you that my Dad knew your father. We know at least one person whose mother was really their grandmother, and sister was their mother. I just said, hey, he was my neighbor. I wouldnt trade my life for anyone else. Harlan Countians like Justified. . 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. I married a Lady, born and raised in Harlan. I made the mistake of posting a picture of Basil on a Harlan County Facebook page. He worked at Eastover for several years after the strike until Duke closed the mines. My reply was that he didnt scare me, I am from Harlan, Kentucky! WebHarlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. None of my schools still exist. He was a clerk there. My younger brother and I were born and raised in Dayton. We got segregation in those years, and I never knew the difference, we all got along. Always. I guess this was one of many reasons my dad thought California was a good choice for me. We had a wonderful daughter and divorced when she was nine. WebSynopsis. WebA coal miner silhouetted and barely visible in the darkness of a coal mine calls out a warning three times, fire-in-the-hole, the words all run together melodiously, letting all know hes about to detonate an explosion.So begins HARLAN COUNTY USA, 1976, 104 minutes Directed by Barbara Kopple, Winner Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary 1976. My mom is from Cote (Evarts) I cant wait to read this to her! Girl fights were always the best. Pat your name seems familiar. Its called age, my friend. Facts about Basil Collins, birthday, facts, bio and more. I must say it is a great read. 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. 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. And the tell me they can always tell when Im talking to a relative on the phone for the same reason. Christy, I believe we may know each other. Pretty accurate for McCreary Co, as well. Imagine trying to explain where Cutshin is located!! 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. I was born and raised in Sunshine. The other motel in Browning Acres is Mount Aire Motel. As I was merrily driving along, I was suddenly chastised soundly for missing the road. Change). We are made to known about his death on September 16, 2020. Janice and I were both switchboard operators and admissions clerk. The strikers made bumper stickers supporting their cause and drove around the community in a truck with loudspeakers to explain their grievances and hopefully gain support. For roughly a century after the railroad came in, Harlan flourished or suffered according to coals cycle of boom and bust; the countys population expanded or Rarely is an Eastern Kentucky county a destination. There is a bleak side to Harlan, as anywhere else. 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. Still have family there. I remember Alafair. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It was an old theater whose best days had long past. So, I guess Im just arguing it is in the wrong state Its boring. The rest of us (that includes me) hate the image of Harlan Countians as violent, uneducated hooligans. It even had an old balcony whererumor had itblack folks used to be seated. We outlanders like our Harlan roots. It is good to hear from you and I hope to hear from you again. I have been gone from Harlan now for 40 years, One thing I will say is you are accurate in your writings of Harlan. Still have a few family members there and many friends. Unemployment in 2017 was 9.4 percent, far above the national average. 6. Yes I remember you, vaguely, it has been a long time. We once had a train full of nerve gas pass through Loyall. I have always been proud of being from Cawood in Harlan County. I couldnt quit reading it. He was the hardest worker I have ever known. I happened across this blog through a friend. I am an outlander from Bell County and so enjoyed reading this! We are our own world. John. Heres my personal map of the area: This seemingly random boundary results in some folks calling it Southeastern Kentucky which, geographically speaking, is more accurate. Just discovered your blog. 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. How can I contact your Uncle Clarence E. to find out if he has any information to help with my research? My husband is a retired coal miner. We were just there in July , I love going back to visit. Hi aurea, Ive helped ur grand paw make many many gallons of moonshine just over the hill from ur mom n dads house. Been back very few times. Help me out with what category to look at to fi the hitchhiking story. Once you push too far north, you get out of the mountains, and we have to exclude you. Great description. Brought back some memories. Isolation. They had no desire to ever live anywhere else. If its hard, its hopeless. Harlan One can argue that its always been over-populated what with the chronic high unemployment and high poverty rate. And of that i am very proud. Probably like 4th or 5th cousins. .I didnt think to ask them while they were alive. It was a thriving community in the 60s-70s. This strike had only one death. We hung out at Denny Rays, Kens and I cant remember the drive in on the road to Loyall?? You have to have mountains, not hills. If so, let me know so I can fill any dates, places, names and information you may furnish to me. Were you in danger? As usual John you nailed it!! Your ignorant, evidently you dont much about Catlettsburg in the early 1900s . She graduated from Cumberland High School. I bet I heard them talking about you. It is a tragedy what Black Jewell Coal company has done to honest, hard working coal Regardless, they came back. Basil was a neighbor of ours when I was a kid, so I know he was It was a Best Western when it was first built. I was born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit but my parents were from Harlan County, my dad born in Holmes Mill growing up in Highsplint, my mother born and raised in Black Mountain eventually leaving and lived in Corbin. I was in the 7th grade at Evarts when we moved. Charles Leonard Birmingham, AL. It is not, as you might think, simply the eastern half of the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. I knew the Clarks well. Its nice to read good thoughts of Harlan County. Have lived in SC for the past 25 yrs but everyone who knows me knows where I come from. Me, my brother and sister went to church every Sundaywe werent allowed to even go to the toilet until after church. 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!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL. When Sheriff If I knew them personally I would surly let them know about it too. I live in the city now, and raised my daughters here. =). Dont say we are not eastern Kentuckians because we dont speak your slang, or live the life that people from harlin county do. Harlan County, U.S.A. is not a traditional documentary in any sense of the word. Second, my parents lived in Harlan County their entire lives, as have aunts, uncles, cousins and many of my closest friends. 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. We also have accents, heavy mountain accentsthe kind that can be indecipherable even to natives of the area. I know that area, well, too. I knew some fine people from Smith. My brother and I thought we had died and gone to Heaven. Its quiet now. I try to go back a couple times a year, for nostalgia as much as bagging those elusive, scarce birds. Everywhere I go here in Ohio I run into people from Harlan or people who have relatives from there and some still living there. Sometimes, the film would jam and you could watch it melt. I was blessed to have been raised in the mountains. We lived the last house in the head of the holler with my poppy and granny our only neighbors. Maybe they were hoping to see (or experience) some kind of catastrophe. It will always be home to me. My great aunt Alafair lived there till she died and her beauty shop was still there, run by one of daughters the last time I was there. IM RETIRED AND LIVE IN TN NOW BUT I GO BACK TO HARLAN ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH. And should I know you? Itd be hard to sneeze and not hit a Creech with the spray. I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU ALL, DO ANY OF YOU REMEMBER A LITTLE BLIND MAN THAT USE TO SELL NEWS PAPERS IN THE LOBBY OF THE HARLAN HOSPITAL? When he grew up, he moved west to Colorado and became a hard rock miner for the next 40 years. Look at my blog post Adventures in Hitchhiking, and youll see a story about JImmy picking me up hitchhiking one night. The other side was the Lounge, a long, narrow open room with a dance floor. Loyallalso had a theaterthe Roadenuntil I was about 6 years old. They might as well have been in different states. Women took over the picket lines. Very isolated. Ive got a few more Harlan County memories. I was about 11-12 and I remember we played outside constantly. We have accents which are obscured by our penchant for mumbling. Loved this! Harlan is tough. 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. An outlander is someone who used to live in Harlan. We wore machine guns with semiautomatic carbines. That I can remember but I cant find my car in the parking lot? Now kids go to Harlan County High School which consumed Cawood, Evarts and Cumberland High Schools. When we went to high school, we identified as being from Loyallor Hall or Wallins. Garys was a fun place. The ones who love it love the depiction of rough and ready union brothers and sisters ready to wage war with the coal company thugs. Im fortunate that my job regularly takes me to Eastern Kentucky. But my roots are still strong an a country girl. | Coal Troll's Blog, https://thetrivialtroll.com/2012/03/10/adventures-in-hitchhiking/, ALL ABOARD THE NERVE GAS TRAIN! Coal mining runs in cycles. I suspect its mostly because they didnt care much for Hustler, at least not publicly. I had friend in Sunshine growing up. My older brother and sister were both born at Lynch Hospital. Were still Harlan Countians. Black lung finally got the best of him but legally these days black lung doesnt exist. One side was a roller rink. Justified portrays Harlan as a lawless frontier of wanton violence. Edit. Some are like me. 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. Your dad was a really good teacher. . My sister in law was born over in Leatherwood. Ive never known anyone who didnt wear shoesand I knew some pretty rough characters. Scott describes the murder of Lawrence Jones by Billy Bruner. She was one of my favorite. loved her. Just found your blog while attempting to refresh my memory about the name of the theater, the Margie Grand, in Harlan. I suggest you search my blog for my many other posts about life in Harlan County. I have all the respect in the world for the good people in Harlan county its rough with mines getting shut down and people loosing what they know best and thats coal Im sorry it rough that is a reason I moved but keep strong everyone in Harlan has a big heart and I promise they are some the best people u ever meet in ur life. . Ive lived a few places in east ky, but never been to Harlan. | Coal Troll's Blog, My Life in Harlan County | Williams Kilpatrick, PLLC. I dont know exactly when died, but it was sometime in the 1980s. My dad was certainly a bad ass, growing up in a time and place that required that to survive. I found a place to turn around and get back down the road and get my act together. 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. My Mom taught at SE Community College. I was mostly raised In Floyd Co. KY & did live in Grundy , Va. at one time. There is no Holiday Inn Express in Harlan. Were isolated. I grew up in this wonderful town, going for summers and Christmas in Atlanta. Im pretty sure Lanes Cliffhanger was in the old Mount Aire building. Personal details. If you live in Harlan, I cant say that I blame you. But they dont always leave. We were poor and I will say very poor. While my friends and fellow graduates were leaving here, I was happy to stay in a place I loved. Took the jury about 5 minutes to find against us, lol. Basil Noel They might even live in Harlan, but it doesnt suit them. Oh, and we moaned and complained about not having anything to do. The sinister way he talked. I left here when i was 15 came back in my late 20s. We have corresponded back and forth for several years about our Leonard connections. I need to work Watts Creek in to a future post, for sure. My maternal grandparents grew up in Black Star coal camp and Papaw taught at Hall High. I didnt like a lot of your article, some of it is accurate. Your mother was my teacher at Hall High for four years. I USE TO WORK IN THE COAL MINE AT THREE POINT, CRANKS AND HARLAN. I love your blog, it is a great read. Bledsoe, so we limped, if you know what I mean Born in Leslie Co. and graduated James A Cawood in 81. For instance, threats didnt faze me. The school closed. There are good people and bad people. I am a badass.. Proud to be from Harlan County.. man now im so homesick!! What Mountains besides the one on the border with Virginia, Black Mt.(?)? Take care! Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) captures the story of strike conducted by the United Mine Workers of America Local Union in Harlan County, Kentucky. Right now, its in a big down turn. I can connect with outlanders here in Georgetown by telling them, I was there the day that McDonalds opened..great times! Geelong. It is classified as a moist countya county in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city, in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.In the city of Harlan, People were practically hanging on it. . She would forever remain his Georgia Peach. Stumbled across your post. Doris, do I know you? 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. Offended by the possiblility that outsiders will use them to measure the intelligence of my people. I didnt know, but thats before my time. On this criterion, Robertson County would qualify, but again, its just too far north. myname isronnie saylor i lived in fairview hollow i was 11 years old,went to haran grade school i remenber my gym treacher they call him doc , he would paddle you for saying the word shit ,does anyone remenber that .i will never forget the family that live accross from us the kids name was buck and peggy thomas,peggy was my frist she was beauitful to,the boys lived next to me , i remender one of thems name phiplip,i still got a scarefrom where he hit me with a rock.we used to take car hoods cut them off and float down rivier on them.my dad work out of town in ohio,my mommy would slip around with a taxi driver,she drink alot ,we move to wallins after that , thats where i never went to school,started working in coal mines at 16 years old dad sign so i could work under ground.we lived in wallins for a little while then move to molus ky thats where my dad was risedthey were about all kin florks back then they all live in camp houses granmam and jack brock lived next to each other they were family to, i remenber my brother got lock in a rc cola mach out on granmam poach. If you have a book related to Harlan County and it's people. Welcome to Harlan County! And so do I. I know all those places. Government checks. Now, dont confuse Harlan County with the town of Harlan, our county seat. Good memories there. A mouthy little man like me finds out the hard way that bad is good, but big is better. Dad used have him mow for us sometimes. Thanks for the comments. My roots and my heart are there and for me thats important. I would sometimes go out and spend a month or two with my grandparents and spend some nights with other family members in Harlan and Bell counties. We have mountains all around us. 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. After all no one I know would go north of the Ky border to see. My Uncle Ralph Leonard was Pastor at the Baxter Methodist Church before it was moved. My great granny and grandpa lived in Harlan when they first married but moved to Leslie county. Maybe they just didnt have much else to do. I-64 runs through Montgomery, Bath, Rowan and Carter Counties. Really enjoyed the article. Mostly, we just hung out. My brother actually had a knife pulled on him at Cawood. You nailed it. miners in this county AND other states. My cousin posted the link on Facebook and I have not been able to move till finishing the read. We were driving down the road from Pineville toward Harlan and I was looking for the turn off to get to sister Normas place. The old structure is still up there on Pine Mountain. Ive been gone for 20+ years now. What happened to Basil Collins in the end? So so sad to see that head of the Holler non existent now, all overgrown. WebLearn about Basil Collins: his birthday, age, zodiac sign, his family, and more. And they were well respected. My Mom moved to Cumberland from Pike County when she was 10. I remember when you had to take a gravel road from Pineville to Loyall when they were building the new 119. Pingback: My Life in Harlan County | Williams Kilpatrick, PLLC. If you dont, I cant fault you for that, either. (LogOut/ 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. Delivered babies at ARH back in 87 while doing my Family Practice residency at UK. I respect ALL coal miners. Harlan County, USA is not only a great documentary, but a great film. BTW I live on Watts Creek and have most of my life..off and on. Im one of those that left for work but I have a brother who still lives there and I occasionally visit. It is my hometown by choice.I love it, I retired from Ky Dept of Trans (engineering). Someone told me that the best way to commit suicide was to stand around in Smith and act like youre counting money! To add to my previous comment above, my other Grandfather was Elijah Depew (nicknamed Lidge? Now, people in Carter County pretty much sound like us, but they have that Interstate.

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