Twilight in Hazard : an Appalachian reckoning /

When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region "like a foreign correspondent would." And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the N...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maimon, Alan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brooklyn : Melville House, [2021].
Subjects:	Hazard (Ky.) > Social life and customs. Hazard (Ky.) > History. Appalachian Region, Southern > Social life and customs. Appalachian Region, Southern > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Do us right
The dams break
King coal
Life beyond the mines
Killing season
God and country
Bad nerves
Poison politics
The day the news left town
From the hood to the holler.