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Clyde Roy Pack

12 October 2009 Written by Anthony B. Stephens

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"Even though my family had little in terms of material goods, I wish everybody could have experienced a childhood like mine." -- Clyde Roy Pack, Muddy Branch Clyde Roy Pack is an associate editor at The Paintsville Herald, where he also writes an award-winning humor column. He was an elementary and high school art and English teacher for 33 years before retiring in 1994. He lives in Paintsville with his wife of 47 years,…

Stacy R. Nelson

09 July 2004 Written by Anthony B. Stephens

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"I always wanted to be like him (Jesse Stuart), I wanted to be a writer." --Stacy R. Nelson Stacy R. Nelson was delivered by his grandmother on a kitchen table in northeastern Kentucky in January of 1949. A one-time U. S. Army communications specialist, band member, songwriter, poet, railroad foreman, and antique log home restoration expert, Stacy's true passion has always been his writing. Stacy's uncle, Jesse Stuart, was his greatest inspiration.…

Thomas D. Clark

11 October 2009 Written by Anthony B. Stephens

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“ A community without a sense of History, is not a community at all.” -- Thomas D. Clark Thomas Dionysius Clark (July 14, 1903 - June 28, 2005) was perhaps Kentucky's most notable historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later become a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Often referred to as the "Dean of Historians" Clark is best known for…

Loyal Jones

10 July 2004 Written by Anthony B. Stephens

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"All work in Appalachia must be based on the genuine needs as expressed by mountain people themselves. Whatever work is done must be done with the recognition that Appalachian culture is real and functioning." --Loyal Jones Loyal Jones is a popular speaker, writer, and educator who helped advance the Appalachian studies movement of the 1970s and is recognized for his knowledge and use of Appalachian folk humor. Biography Born in Marble, North Carolina,…

Billy C. Clark

10 December 2002 Written by Anthony B. Stephens

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"In nineteen years of growing up here in the valley, hunger was my most vivid memory and an education was my greatest desire."--Billy C. Clark Billy Curtis Clark was an American author of 11 books and many poems and short stories, heavily influenced by his childhood growing up in poverty in Kentucky. Biography Clark was born June 26, 1928 and grew up in Catlettsburg in Eastern Kentucky during the Great Depression; He was…

Harry M. Caudill

10 October 2011 Written by Anthony B. Stephens

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"And we just can't afford to sit back and watch all that (land) be destroyed so a few people can get rich now. One of these days the dear old federal government is going to have to come in and spend billions of dollars just to repair the damage that's already been done. And guess who will have the machines and the workmen to do the job? The same coal operators who made the…

Bob Barnett

10 March 2009 Written by Anthony B. Stephens

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Bob Barnett is a lifelong resident of West Virginia. He taught sport history for thirty-five years at Marshall University, and has written more than 300 articles for publications as varied as the Washington Post, Saturday Evening Post, Sports Heritage Magazine, West Virginia's Goldenseal Magazine, and the Dallas Cowboy News. He was also a section editor for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Bob married his high school girlfriend, Liz Arner. The Barnetts live in Huntington, West Virginia…