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Clyde Roy Pack

12 October 2009

Published in Featured Author's and Books

"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, Wilma Jean Penix Pack.

Books by Clyde Roy Pack

Muddy Branch: Memories of an Eastern Kentucky Coal Camp (2002, Jesse Stuart Foundation)
Coal-Camp Chronicles (2005, Where? Press)
Going Back: The Happy Adventures of a Coal-Camp Kid (2009, Where? Press)

Mark Maynard

08 July 2004

Published in Featured Author's and Books

Mark Maynard is a veteran newspaperman who has spent his entire career at one newspaper – The Independent in Ashland, Kentucky. He started out rolling ticker tape, became a sports clerk, then a sports writer, then sports editor and is currently the editor of the 20,000 circulation daily newspaper.

Maynard, 54, has captured more than fifty-five writing awards from the Kentucky Press Association during a 37-year career.

He covered University of Kentucky football and basketball from 1990-98, including Final Fours in 1993, 1996 and 1997, and covered the Cincinnati Reds sweeping the Oakland A’s in the 1990 World Series. But his passion has been for Northeastern Kentucky, where high school sports are the biggest game in town.

Mark and his wife, Beth, reside in Ashland and they have two grown children, Stephen and Sally.