05 Monday Dec 2022
Tags
Appalachia, Barboursville, Bill Herndon, Cabell County, civil war, Huntington, Main Street, Maurice E. Beckett, Morris Harvey College, Old Abraham, poems, poet, poetry, Tanyard Branch, Union Cavalry, West Virginia, writers
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Barboursville, Civil War, Poetry
21 Thursday Apr 2022
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Appalachia, Hatfield-McCoy Feud, history, justice of the peace, Kentucky, Logan County, Pike County, Sam McCoy, Tolbert Hatfield, Wall Hatfield, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Hatfield-McCoy Feud
23 Tuesday Nov 2021
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Appalachia, architecture, history, Joe Rimkus, Logan, Logan County, radio station, West Virginia, WVOW
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Logan
30 Saturday Oct 2021
Tags
Appalachia, Aracoma, Highland Avenue, history, Kanada Street, Lee Street, Logan, Logan County, Oak Hill Addition, Pine Street, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Logan
12 Wednesday May 2021
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Ashland, Danielle Fraley, fiddler, fiddling, folklorist, J.P. Fraley, Kentucky, Kentucky Highlands Museum, music, Rob McNurlin, Ron Dobler
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Music
25 Friday Dec 2020
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Appalachia, Carrie Thacker, cemeteries, genealogy, Hamlin, history, L.M. Thacker, Lincoln County, Maude May, R. Dennis Steed, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Cemeteries, Hamlin
17 Tuesday Nov 2020
08 Sunday Nov 2020
Tags
Appalachia, Charles L. Estep, Department of Public Safety, history, James Jeffrey, Lewis White, Logan County, sheriff, United Mine Workers of America, W.M. White, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Battle of Blair Mountain
08 Sunday Nov 2020
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Appalachia, attorney, Cabell County, coal, H.W. Houston, Huntington, Logan County, Thomas West, United Mine Workers of America, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Battle of Blair Mountain, Huntington
15 Sunday Sep 2019
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Big Harts Creek
11 Wednesday Sep 2019
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Spurlockville
11 Thursday Jul 2019
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Spurlockville
12 Wednesday Jun 2019
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Appalachia, history, Lincoln County, logging, photos, Spurlockville, timber, timbering, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Spurlockville, Timber
08 Saturday Jun 2019
Back caption reads: “Here is the Team I am working now. We had these pictures made yesterday morning and got them this afternoon. You can Rase corn now. Z.D.A.”
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Spurlockville, Timber
31 Friday May 2019
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Appalachia, history, Island Creek, Logan County, map, Mud Fork, Shegon, Troy, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Logan
13 Monday May 2019
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Appalachia, Coal Street, Don Chafin, High Street, history, Logan, Logan County, map, Morgan Street, Tom Avis, W.H. Steele, W.J. Ellis, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Logan
10 Wednesday Apr 2019
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Logan
06 Wednesday Feb 2019
Tags
Appalachia, ballot commissioners, Democratic Party, Emmett F. Scaggs, history, J.J. Ross, Logan County, politics, Republican Party, W.C. Mann, W.R. Thurmond, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Logan
01 Friday Feb 2019
Tags
Appalachia, Beech Creek, Buchanan County, crime, genealogy, history, Logan County, McDowell County, Mingo County, sheriff, Virginia, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Big Sandy Valley
29 Tuesday Jan 2019
Tags
Appalachia, Blair Mountain, Cabell County, coal, crime, deputy sheriff, Edgar Combs, H.W. Houston, history, Huntington, lawyer, Logan County, Mine Wars, Thomas West, United Mine Workers of America, West Virginia
Posted by Brandon Ray Kirk | Filed under Battle of Blair Mountain, Coal, Huntington, Logan
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