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Gold is really good, only when wisely spent

‘Old Farmer Was A Miser Of The Worst Kind! His Love Of Gold Led To Great Misery,’ by McCreary Roberts in ‘Kentucky Explorer,’ April 2000

In the hills of eastern Kentucky, there was a clan of folk who seem to have shared a genetic anomaly that, in effect, rendered them blue.

“Coon Creek Girls was a very happy time. As far as I know, we were the first all-girl string band,” recalled band leader Lily May Ledford.

My proclivity toward spelling prowess reached fulfillment with one of my teachers. She had weekly spelling bees, and I quickly climbed.

In the 1880s, Swiss from Canton Bern came to Laurel County, KY, to found Die Kolonie Bernstadt. Coal jobs in the county were plentiful.

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