Kentucky Place Names
Kentucky Place Names

Author: Robert M. Rennick

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2013-04-06

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0813144019

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" From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.

The Big Sandy
The Big Sandy

Author: Carol Crowe-Carraco

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0813188989

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The Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky. For generations, the only practical means of transportation and contact with the outside world was the river, and, as The Big Sandy demonstrates, steamboats did much to shape the culture of the region. Carol Crowe-Carraco offers an intriguing and readable account of this region's history from the days of the venturesome Long Hunters of the eighteenth century, through the bitter struggles of the Civil War and its aftermath, up to the 1970s, with their uncertain promise of a new prosperity. The Big Sandy pictures these changes vividly while showing how the turbulent past of the valley lives on in the region's present.

A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley
A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley

Author: George D. Torok

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781572332829

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A guide to the historical coal towns of the Big Sandy River Valley that provides brief histories of each town, descriptions of the buildings and structures that remain, and insight into the town's residents.

Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 1967
Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 1967

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public works. Special Subcommittee on Economic Development

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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Considers S. 602, to amend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to extend and revise Appalachian Regional Commission programs.

To Live Here, You Have to Fight
To Live Here, You Have to Fight

Author: Jessica Wilkerson

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2018-12-30

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0252050924

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Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service. Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty--shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people's rights to community health to unionization. Inspiring yet sobering, To Live Here, You Have to Fight reveals Appalachian women as the indomitable caregivers of a region--and overlooked actors in the movements that defined their time.