Letcher County (Ky.)

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Includes data on A) Joe and Gaynell Begley, anti-strip mining activists, and B) Samuel L. Begley (1838-1885), the first county judge of Leslie County, Kentucky.

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Coal town

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Records include one envelope with four photographs -- two full body shots of Mary Pauline David (Polly), one headshot, and one full body shot with her first husband, Duncan. The photo album is bound in a black leather cover with the first page dedicating the volume to the Stuart Robinson School Graduating class of 1930 with notes from Polly's students. The photography pages begin in 1927 with each photograph labelled with a name or place.

Abstract During his career as a journalist Phil Primack covered public policy, politics, and the economy for numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, the Boston Globe, Commonwealth, Boston, and Columbia Journalism Review. The Phil Primack Collection contains numerous photographs, most of them taken while Primack worked as a...

Abstract The Stuart Robinson School was located in Blackey, Letcher County, Kentucky and named for the Rev. Stuart Robinson, a former pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville, who was particularly supportive of eastern Kentucky mission work. Students at the school held various labor positions on campus in addition to their academic studies. Among the school’s more notable graduates are former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Juanita Kreps, and Gurney Norman, who wrote ...

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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"Mountain Methodist" essay or article narrating the history of the development of Methodism in early Kentucky and in the Whitesburg area in particular. No author is named. Source: Elder Walter L. Akers collection, box 26, folder 23. Moved into the Appalachian Vertical Files April 2026 tsb.