Versions of Carter County Fire Ballad Compiled by Robert E. McCormack Two little Girls Come All Ye Tender Hearted The Fire Tragedy Come All You Tender Hearted Saturday February 21, 2004 My name is Robert E. McCormack. I will share 4 versions of this heart-rending ballad and introduce each one of them. For an introduction, […]
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Love Letters to a Coal Miner’s Daughter The Nathan Jones and the Scott Taylor families were close neighbors in the coal camp of Monitor # 3 (Wilkinson) in Logan County West Virginia. Elizabeth Taylor and Johnny Jones were childhood sweethearts. Through these letters you will notice interaction between the two families — especially between Elizabeth
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World War I Letters written by Alonzo C Taylor to his sister, Elizabeth Taylor. Transcribed by Robert E. McCormack, May 26, 2006. An attempt was made to transcribe as accurately as possible and to retain Clyde’s original spelling– editing with punctuation was done when necessary to end sentences. Letters are in chronological order to give
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A large photo collection of Cherry Tree Bottom and its residents from many sources. Submission of pictures is welcome – especially depicting Cherry Tree of the 1930s -1960s. The Cherry Tree Grade School was built in 1917. It was torn down when the boulevard was built in 1956. If anyone has any Cherry Tree School
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By Pam Brennan I remember my Pepaw Brennan coming home from the mines and being black as night from head to toe except for the whites of his eyes and his teeth. I was terrified! He would flash those pearly whites at me and I would run screaming in the other direction. I was so
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This was originally published in 2002 on Martha Sparks’ My West Virginia Mountain website and is reprinted here with her permission and our special thanks. Note: The fancy header image is from Martha’s page also. MORRISON’S DRIVE-INN It was our first date, I was only fourteen but my parents had agreed to let me go
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When this page was created for this gallery, I simply called it Black Bottom because that’s what my Dad called this area. I knew parts of it were called Ellis Addition and Deskins Addition, but I’ve never understood exactly where one stopped and the other one began. When I was a kid, I assumed Black
Some of my fondest memories growing up in Logan County are of the great times spent at the Drive-Ins and Theaters. If you have any special Logan County Drive-In or Theater memories or photos you’d like to share with us here, please do so. To share a photo, please email it to the admin at loganwv.us@gmail.com.
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Contributed by Carla Haslam Herkner Below are photos taken in 1964 of the Logan High School Class of 1934 and 1935 at their joint reunion. Top roll, L-R, 5th John James Haslam (1917-2010), 2nd roll from top, L-R 7th (wife) Thelma Powell Haslam 1935 Logan High School Gallery
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Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. 2011 Winner of American’s Got Talent LANDAU WINS! by MICHAEL BROWNING, Staff Writer, Logan Banner September 15, 2011 Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. has gone from car wash rags to riches. Murphy, a Logan County car washer, was chosen by American TV viewers as this year’s champion of “America’s Got Talent”, as
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