In 1913 a group of so-called boosters toured eastern Kentucky and stopped in county seats.  These visits just so happened to coincide with the newly booming coal industry in the mountains. Judging from the elevation from which this picture was taken, the photographer was probably standing on the platform or

When Snakes Are Blind The history of Dog Days is practical­ly as old as Western civiliza­tion. The ancient Greeks plotted star positions and connected them with lines to form shapes. One of the images that emerged was that of a dog, called Canis Major, which included Sirius, the brightest star

PIKEVILLE’S MARY ELLIOTT FLANERY In 1924 the Kentucky’s State Historical Society in Frankfort honored Mary Elliott Flanery as “Kentucky’s Most Prominent Female Citizen” in the state’s history to that point in time. As will be seen, she was a forceful and accomplished woman of eventual national import and notoriety as

William McKinley Justice was born November 27, 1893. The shy Pike County boy who would one day become a school teacher, a high-school principal and the author of five books of poetry, never saw the inside of a school room until he was nearly fourteen years old. With an over