“O Beulah Land,” my wandering longform essay about writer Mary Lee Settle, the women of Cedar Grove, and Appalachian transition, was published in the summer issue of Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing.
They also published a companion web-only piece–an audio teaser to my forthcoming hour-long radio documentary and some photographs of Cedar Grove by my pal, the photographer Roger May.
My Fayette County history hero Dale Payne comes through again! A friend of his, Danny Balser, found this document in the walls of an old coal camp house that was being torn down in Cedar Grove. It’s a list of rules for the tenants of the Kelly’s Creek company housing.
All are requested not to indulge in Intemperance, Profane, Obscene, or Boisterous language in or around Company Houses, and to not discharge Fire Arms near Company Houses or Works.