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Famous Common People I Have Known, Miss Spassky, the Little Sparrow

vassar / February 15, 2020

My own school closing down, I spent my last three years of high school in another coal camp a few miles up the creek. I had many adventures there since I was still a virgin in 9th Grade and my home…

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Famous Common People I Have Known, Earl Hodge and Federal Aid to Education

vassar / April 27, 2018

In my freshman year in high school, 1960, I participated in the Kentucky high school regionals of what was called The State Speech Festival. Organized like Spelling Bee competitions, the best of the best at the regionals would be selected…

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Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley

vassar / August 6, 2016

Another in a series about common people I wish you could have known. I was born in a small town of just over a thousand people. It was a company town that ran the length of a creek that hugged…

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