Henry Ford’s Gift to the Miners of Stone Kentucky: Fordson Coal Company.

Credit for these images goes to Civil War Historian, Marlitta Perkins. This first image on the left is a magnified view of the heading displayed in the next image. The beginning reads: “Buried in Public Graveyard in old cultivated field belonging to Mr. Hatcher…”

I was in for a surprise, more ways than one, when I signed up for Dr. Leonard Roberts’ Mythology class my senior year at Pikeville College in 1969.  I realized I’d just wasted five dollars on Edith Hamilton’s fat text when I walked into the classroom and saw all the chairs

Putney, a stringtown along the winding Cumberland River, grew around the old seat of one of the largest sawmills in eastern Kentucky.  I can remember well the day I came over from Pine Mountain School to find Jim Couch, a storyteller from back on the headwaters of the Kentucky River,

Story – The Master Detective Warrant and Court Record Pardon

Noah & John Reynolds

Pike Countians have long been proud to claim Lillie D. Chaffin as one of their own.  Lillie was 37 and working as an elementary  school teacher at Johns Creek when her first children’s book, A Garden is Good, was published in 1963.  Meanwhile, she was gaining a reputation in another genre, with her poetry

Lawsuits are always a good source of information. This timber report was done at the Mouth of Punching Camp, opposite of Shade Dotson’s house. William McClellan Ritter (February 19, 1864-May 21, 1952) organized the W.M. Ritter Lumber Company in 1901. From the original core of operations in West Virginia and

A scene from the days of Ritter Lumber at Lower Elk. In the center foreground is the company store. The lumber yard is in the front, at the right, with garden plots on the hillside, belonging to the different families in the lumber camp. The area at the back, left,