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West Virginia Farming Scene

27 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Harts Creek

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Appalachia, culture, Farmers, genealogy, Great Depression, Hiawatha Adams, history, life, Logan County, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

Big Harts Creek, Logan County, West Virginia, c.1938

Big Harts Creek, Logan County, West Virginia, c.1938

In Search of Ed Haley

24 Tuesday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ed Haley, Music

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Appalachia, Cabell County, culture, fiddler, Fred B. Lambert, history, life, Morris Wentz, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

Morris Wentz, West Virginia fiddler.

Morris Wentz, West Virginia fiddler

J.T. “Pomp” Wentz: Steamboat Captain of Cabell County, WV

23 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Music

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Appalachia, Cabell County, fiddler, fiddling, Fred B. Lambert, Guyandotte River, history, J.T. "Pomp" Wentz, music, photos, steamboats, West Virginia

Pomp Wentz

J.T. “Pomp” Wentz, riverboat captain in the Guyandotte Valley. From the Fred B. Lambert Papers, Special Collections Department, Morrow Library, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.

West Virginia Timber Scene

21 Saturday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Harts, Timber

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Appalachia, Clyde Holton, culture, genealogy, Harts, history, life, Lincoln County, photos, timbering, U.S. South, Ward Brumfield, West Virginia

Deputy Sheriff Ward Brumfield with nephew Clyde Holton, taken in Harts, West Virginia, 1915-1920

Deputy Sheriff Ward Brumfield with nephew Clyde Holton, taken in Harts, West Virginia, 1918-1920

What Happened to John Fleming?

20 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Fourteen

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Appalachia, culture, Fourteen Mile Creek, genealogy, history, John Henan Fry, life, Lincoln County, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

JohnHFry

John Henan Fry

In Search of Ed Haley

20 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ed Haley

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Appalachia, education, Fred B. Lambert, history, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

Fred B. Lambert, educator and regional historian.

Fred B. Lambert, educator and regional historian

West Virginia Coal Miner 1

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Coal

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Appalachia, coal, culture, history, labor, life, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

Harrison Smith

Harrison Smith

Leet, West Virginia

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Ugly Creek, Timber

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Appalachia, Big Ugly Creek, culture, genealogy, history, Leet, life, Lincoln County, photos, timbering, West Virginia

Leet, West Virginia, 1905-1920

Leet, West Virginia, 1905-1920

Rector Hicks

30 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Calhoun County, Ed Haley, Music

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Akron, Appalachia, Calhoun County, culture, fiddler, fiddlers, fiddling, history, Kerry Blech, life, music, Ohio, photos, Rector Hicks, U.S. South, West Virginia

James Ward Jarvis (b.1894), fiddler from Braxton County, West Virginia, 1970s

Rector Hicks, fiddler from Calhoun County, West Virginia, c.1976. Photo courtesy of Kerry Blech

Logan Court House (1904-1911)

25 Sunday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Logan

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Appalachia, culture, history, life, Logan, Logan County, photos, U.S. South, West Virginia

Logan Court House 1

Logan Court House, built 1904, destroyed by fire 1911.

John Hartford’s banjo

24 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in John Hartford, Music

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Appalachia, banjo, bluegrass, culture, history, John Hartford, life, Museum of Appalachia, music, Norris, photos, Tennessee

John Hartford banjo, Museum of Appalachia, Norris, TN. 15 May 2012

John Hartford banjo, Museum of Appalachia, Norris, TN. 15 May 2012

In Search of Ed Haley

23 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ed Haley

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Appalachia, Ashland, genealogy, history, Kentucky, life, Mona Haley, photos

Mona Haley, 1945

Mona Haley, 1945

Green Bottom

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Civil War

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Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Cabell County, civil war, history, photos, West Virginia

Home of Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Cabell County, WV.  17 March 2013

Home of Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Cabell County, WV. 17 March 2013

Battle of Point Pleasant

20 Tuesday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Native American History

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American Revolution, Appalachia, history, Mason County, Native American History, photos, Point Pleasant, West Virginia

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Monument commemorating the Battle of Point Pleasant, which occurred between Native Americans and Virginians at the mouth of the Kanawha River on October 10, 1774. Considered the key event of Dunmore’s War, some regard it as the first battle of the American Revolution. Photo taken in the spring of 2013.

Bulltown, West Virginia

17 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Native American History

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archaeology, arrowheads, Braxton County, Bulltown, Early Archaic Period, history, Late Archaic Period, Late Prehistoric Period, Native American History, photos, West Virginia, Woodland Period

Arrowheads located in the Bulltown Museum, Braxton County, WV, 2013.

Arrowheads located in the Bulltown Museum, Braxton County, WV, 9 Feb 2013.

In Search of Ed Haley

13 Tuesday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Ed Haley

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Appalachia, Edden Hammons, fiddler, history, life, music, photos, West Virginia

Edden Hammons, West Virginia fiddler

Edden Hammons (1875-1955), West Virginia fiddler

Matewan Massacre Brass Plugs (2008)

13 Tuesday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Big Sandy Valley, Coal, Matewan

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Appalachia, culture, history, Matewan, Mingo County, photos, West Virginia

Matewan Bullet Holes

Matewan, West Virginia, 2008

Devil Anse Hatfield

08 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Culture of Honor, Hatfield-McCoy Feud

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Appalachia, culture, Devil Anse Hatfield, feud, life, photos, Tug River, West Virginia

Devil Anse Hatfield (left)

Devil Anse Hatfield (left)

Aracoma

29 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk in Logan

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Appalachia, Aracoma, history, life, Logan County, photos, West Virginia

Aracoma, otherwise known as Logan Court House, circa 1885

Aracoma, otherwise known as Logan Court House, circa 1885

In Search of Ed Haley

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

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blind, Ella Haley, genealogy, Lawrence Haley, photos

Ella Haley with Lawrence Haley, 1950s

Ella Haley with Lawrence Haley, 1950s

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Feud Poll 1

If you had lived in the Harts Creek community during the 1880s, to which faction of feudists might you have given your loyalty?

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Feud Poll 2

Do you think Milt Haley and Green McCoy committed the ambush on Al and Hollene Brumfield in 1889?

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Feud Poll 3

Who do you think organized the ambush of Al and Hollene Brumfield in 1889?

Recent Posts

  • Logan County Jail in Logan, WV
  • Absentee Landowners of Magnolia District (1890, 1892, 1894)
  • Charles Spurlock Survey at Fourteen Mile Creek, Lincoln County, WV (1815)

Ed Haley Poll 1

What do you think caused Ed Haley to lose his sight when he was three years old?

Top Posts & Pages

  • Early Coal Mines in Logan County, WV
  • Jack Dempsey’s Broadway Restaurant Location in New York City (2019)
  • Harrison Blair Was Early Sheriff in Logan County, WV (1937)
  • Frank Hutchison of Logan County, WV (1927)
  • Stephen Hart: Origins of Harts Creek (1896/1937)

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