The last remaining Democratic state representative in rural Kentucky just announced she’s switching parties. Robin Webb’s ...

And while the rails were taken up in Newton Falls and elsewhere many years ago, an original, stone whistle post still stands in the ground of the track bed right-of-way just north of the depot to ...

Here's How Harlan County still has many active mines ... He made regular appearances there, promising to end the “war on coal” by reopening closed plants and reinvigorating the industry.

Klotter’s 1996 book entitled, A New History of Kentucky, described the miner workers’ plight which led to the Evarts (Harlan County) Coal Miners’ war in 1931. The membership of Kentucky coal ...

Earl was born in the coal mining town of Lynch in Harlan County, Kentucky. His parents ... Earl served in combat during the Vietnam War. Among his numerous commendations, Earl received a Bronze Star ...

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Outside an underground mine tour in Harlan County, a big sign in the parking ... (Scott Olson/Getty Images) As the story goes here, a war on coal was declared by former President Barack Obama.

Eighty-two men, including some inspectors, killed at Poston Mine in Athens County ... Harlan, and Hazard. The world clamored for coal to feed its industrial production and war-making capacity ...

For at issue was the repute of Harlan County’s coal barons and deputized thugs ... a Federal statute enacted just after the Civil War to protect Negroes from Ku Kluxers could be invoked to ...

Johnson asked Congress to declare war on poverty ... David Estep, of Harlan County, worked in the coal industry for 15 years before being laid off in 2019. He retrained to be a utility lineman.

Despite lungs choked with coal dust, Fields ... Between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II, Harlan County’s population grew nearly eight-fold, to a peak of 75,275. Today, it’s around ...