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…
Tag: Famous Common People I have Known
Famous Common People I Have Known, Earl Hodge and Federal Aid to Education
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…
Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley
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…
Famous Common People I Have Known, Zlatko, Slavka and Kolya
At right of this photo is a fellow I intend to include in my “Famous Common People’ series some day, for he was one of the most extraordinary men I ever knew and symbolized the kind of “common man” the…