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Appalachia, Halloween, history, life, Logan, Logan Armory, Logan Banner, Logan Booster Club, Logan County, West Virginia
Logan Banner, 19 October 1926.
Halloween Dance at the Armory (1926)
15 Saturday Jul 2017
Posted in Logan
Tag Archives: life
Dr. W.W. Baker of Hamlin, WV
29 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Hamlin, Huntington
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Appalachia, Fred B. Lambert, genealogy, Hamlin, history, Huntington, life, Lincoln County, Marshall University, McMaster's Hospital, medicine, Morrow Library, physician, W.W. Baker, West Virginia, Wheeling, William Ward Baker
Dr. W.W. Baker (1841-1920) of Hamlin, Lincoln County, WV. Photo copyright: Fred B. Lambert Papers, Special Collections Department, James E. Morrow Library, Marshall University, Huntington, WV. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47399295
Huntington (WV) Advertiser, 19 November 1898.
Buskirk House (1889)
08 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in Lincoln County Feud, Logan
Tags
Appalachia, Buskirk House, history, J.B. Buskirk, life, Logan, Logan County, Logan County Banner, U.S. South, West Virginia
Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 21 November 1889
Parkersburg Landing Album (2015)
04 Sunday Oct 2015
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Appalachia, Ashland, blind, Ed Haley, Ed Haley Memorial Fiddle Contest, fiddle, fiddler, fiddling, Kentucky, life, music, Parkersburg Landing, photos, Rounder Records
Parkersburg Landing album, Ed Haley Memorial Fiddle Contest, Ashland, Kentucky, 19 September 2015
Leet 06.27.1924
24 Monday Aug 2015
Posted in Big Ugly Creek, Leet
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Appalachia, Bruce Dial, Bruce Hatfield, Charley Lucas, Edith Frye, Edna Lambert, genealogy, history, Huntington, Leet, Lena Frye, life, Lincoln County, Linnie Dial, Lizzie Payne, Logan Banner, Lonnie Lambert, Ossie Dial, Thelma Huffman, U.S. South, Walter Frye, Walton Dial, Wayne Brumfield, Wealthy Hatfield, West Virginia, Wilbur, Wilburn
An unknown local correspondent from Leet in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on June 27, 1924:
We are at this writing having some beautiful weather.
We are glad to see Mr. and Mrs. Charley Lucas moving back in town again.
Wayne Brumfield and Miss Thelma Huffman were at Sunday school, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Lambert will make their future home at Wilbur, W.Va.
Mr. Walton and Ossie Dial were visitors in Leet, Sunday.
Misses Lena and Edith Frye were out horse back riding Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Payne made a flying trip to Huntington, W.Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hatfield are leaving for Wilburn, W.Va.
Walter Frye was calling in Leet Saturday night.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dial, a fine girl baby, Saturday night.
U.B. Buskirk store in Logan, WV (1889)
12 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in Logan
Tags
Appalachia, Aracoma, history, life, Logan, Logan County, Logan County Banner, Main Street, merchant, U.S. South, Urias Buskirk, West Virginia
Logan County Banner, Logan, WV, 19 December 1889
Whirlwind 05.01.1925
12 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted in Big Harts Creek, Whirlwind
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Appalachia, Conley School, G.R. Claypool, genealogy, George Tucker Hensley, Harts Creek, history, Isaac Collins, Joe Blair, John Bryant, life, Logan Banner, Logan County, Tom Tomblin, U.S. South, West Virginia, Whirlwind
An unnamed local correspondent at Whirlwind in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on 01 May 1925:
Uncle Tom Tomblin has been very ill for some time.
George Tucker and John Bryant preached a wonderful sermon at Conley school Sunday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Collins a fine baby girl.
G.R. Claypool and Joe Blair have started to build a road down Harts Creek.
Pike County Tourism (2015)
09 Sunday Aug 2015
Posted in Hatfield-McCoy Feud, Lincoln County Feud, Pikeville
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Brandon Kirk, culture, Diggers, Hatfield-McCoy Feud, Jenny Wiley Theatre, Kentucky, life, photos, Pike County Tourism, Pikeville, Tony Tackett, tourism
Here I am earlier today with Tony Tackett, Pike County (KY) Tourism Director, at Jenny Wiley Theatre in Pikeville, KY. Tony and his associates are unsurpassed in what they do. Many thanks to Tony and Pike County Tourism for inviting me to the Diggers premiere. It was a great time.
Jessie Brumfield cup and saucer (2014)
29 Wednesday Jul 2015
Posted in Harts
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Appalachia, culture, Harts, history, Jessie Brumfield, life, Lincoln County, photos, West Virginia
Jessie Brumfield cup and saucer, Harts, WV, 2014
Steve Haley and Paul Kowert (2015)
26 Sunday Jul 2015
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bluegrass, Ed Haley, life, music, Nashville, Paul Kowert, photos, Punch Brothers, Steve Haley, Tennessee
Steve Haley, grandson of Ed Haley, and Paul Kowert, of Punch Brothers, were two of my recent dinner companions in Nashvillle. Two outstanding fellows. 21 July 2015
Brandon Ray Kirk 