raised in Harlan Co. in a coal miner's family. A remarkable woman of intelligence and courage who was also gracious, hard working and fair. If someone teased her about being from Kentucky, the land of beautiful horses and fast women she took it well. 
She told how her mother and miner's wives once located their absent husbands in a woodland cabin where they were drinking, gambling, spending their pay and worse. The men wouldn't listen so finally the women set the cabin foundation alight with fuel. In no time the men were flushed out and never went back. Survival justice. 
The year of the Harlan Co. strike, 1972, we moved but I retain fond memories of the place that provided me a wonderful education and foundation for life. This account of the miner's struggles and hardships back then is powerful and poignant. Another outstanding film is 'Matewan', director John Sayles 1986 story of the 1920s southern WV mine wars in Mingo/Logan where I was born.
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