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Clinton County KY map January 1940
May 3, 2019 Judges / Kentucky

I’ve learned that the most interesting places are not right on the road

At the little country stores where the road crews gather for a quart of milk and a moon pie, that’s where you find some real historians.

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breathitt county, ky jail 1925
January 25, 2019 Judges / Kentucky

We shook hands with them all, including two held for murder

I have more than once heard a sheriff ask a mountaineer from some distant creek to inform a neighbor that he was under arrest.

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young fess in front of whitaker home
February 12, 2018 Judges / Kentucky / Politics

Lots of people thought I was an idiot

Fess Whitaker (1880-1927) began his career as a politician in 1917, when he was elected county jailer in Letcher County, KY.

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Man arms outstretched in church painting
February 3, 2017 Judges / Kentucky / Religious practices

Superabundance of Religious Fervor Lands Holy Roller in Police Court

Her religious feelings overcame her so that she shook and rolled, thereby throwing those present at the service into a state of alarm.

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