A Pictorial History of Martin County, Kentucky
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Macon County (Tenn.)
ISBN : 1563117223
United States Penitentiary, Martin County, Kentucky
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Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1997
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Martin County Kentucky Fishing & Floating Guide Book
Author : Jim Maccracken
Publisher : Recreational Guides
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Book Description
Martin County Kentucky Fishing & Floating Guide Book Over 145 full 8 ½ x 11 sized pages of information with maps and aerial photographs available. Fishing information is included for ALL of the county’s public ponds and lakes, listing types of fish for each pond or lake, average sizes, and exact locations with GPS coordinates and directions. Also included is fishing information for most of the streams and rivers including access points and public areas with road contact and crossing points and also includes fish types and average sizes. NEW NEW Now with a complete set of full sized U.S.G.S. Topographical Maps for the entire county that normally cost from $12.00 to $14.00 each but are included on the disk for FREE. These maps are complete full sized 7.5 minute series quadrangle maps in 1:24,000 scale maps. Contains complete information on Coldwater Fork EmilyCreek Meathouse Fork Pigeon Roost Fork Rockcastle Creek Rockcastle Creek Middle Fork Rockhouse Forks Tug Fork Whiteoak Fork and Wolf Creek
Conquerors of the Dark Hills
Author : Rufus Mitchell Reed
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 1978-07-01
Category : Martin County (Ky.)
ISBN : 9780533037018
Book Description
Kentucky's Natural Heritage
Author : Greg Abernathy
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813168678
Book Description
Photographs and text examine the species of plants and animals native to Kentucky, exploring glades, prairies, forests, wetlands, rivers, and caves, and discussing the state's conservation efforts to preserve native species and ecosystems.
Kentucky Place Names
Author : Robert M. Rennick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0813144019
Book Description
" 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.
Crowe on the Banjo
Author : Marty Godbey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252093534
Book Description
In this first biography of legendary banjoist J. D. Crowe, Marty Godbey charts the life and career of one of bluegrass's most important innovators. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Crowe picked up the banjo when he was thirteen years old, inspired by a Flatt & Scruggs performance at the Kentucky Barn Dance. Godbey relates the long, distinguished career that followed, as Crowe performed and recorded both solo and as part of such varied ensembles as Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, the all-acoustic Kentucky Mountain Boys, and the revolutionary New South, who created an adventurously eclectic brand of bluegrass by merging rock and country music influences with traditional forms. Over the decades, this highly influential group launched the careers of many other fresh talents such as Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, and Doyle Lawson. With a selective discography and drawing from more than twenty interviews with Crowe and dozens more with the players who know him best, Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J. D. Crowe is the definitive music biography of a true bluegrass original.
Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
Author : Harry M. Claudill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786252007
Book Description
“At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.
A History of Muhlenberg County
Author : Otto Arthur Rothert
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Doyle Collection
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Appalachian Legacy
Author : James Patrick Ziliak
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815722141
Book Description
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act,creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects through better job opportunities, improved human capital, and enhanced transportation. As the focal point of domestic antipoverty efforts, Appalachia took on special symbolic as well as economic importance. Nearly half a century later, what are the results? Appalachian Legacy provides the answers. Led by James P. Ziliak, prominent economists and demographers map out the region's current status. They explore important questions, including how has Appalachia fared since the signing of ARDA in 1965? How does it now compare to the nation as a whole in key categories such as education, employment, and health? Was ARDA an effective place-based policy for ameliorating hardship in a troubled region, or is Appalachia stillmired in a poverty trap? And what lessons can we draw from the Appalachian experience? In addition to providing the reports of important research to help analysts, policymakers, scholars, and regional experts discern what works in fighting poverty, Appalachian Legacy is an important contribution to the economic history of the eastern United States.
