Appalachian History

May 31, 1898 Yesterday morning, Monday, I left Hyden to come to this neighborhood to see about getting permission to furnish a teacher for this school district. There are 109 scholars in the census. I want to put a Wilmore teacher here, full of the Holy Ghost, to get the people saved. Storefronts in Hyden, [...]

There’s one [memory of working for the Frontier Nursing Service] that really does stand out rather a lot. We weren’t supposed to go outside the five mile limit. That was our limit. We weren’t supposed to go a step beyond that. Well, I was at Bull Creek one clinic day, and this woman came to [...]