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Deep
in the Heart of Somewhere Anytime someone celebrates someplace, it should
interest everyone Number 1:
Odds,
Kentucky and Van Lear CountyEditor’s
Introduction to the series*
Photo
courtesy of the Van Lear County Historical Society |
Consolidated
Coal Mine #1 where Loretta Lynn’s father once worked |
Offices
of the Coal Company now house the Van Lear County Historical Society as well as
the coal miner’s museum. |
*We
came to know Odds, Kentucky from a recent letter from Danny Belvins, a Van Lear
County historian and President of the Van Lear County Historical Society. In his
letter he mentioned a connection to Odds,
Texas and how former Kentuckians that settled that town would make the arduous
trip home to attend reunions. |
When
we found that Mr. Blevins had authored the Arcadia title on Van Lear County in
their Images of America series,
it gave us the opportunity to take action on a long-simmering project that we
had placed on the back burner years ago – namely calling attention to the Arcadia
project – an understated and unadvertised undertaking that is nothing short
of organizing the collective “family album” of small town America (or at least
those who want to be included). | |
We are happy to
make Odds the first in what is to be a long-running feature which we hope will
introduce our readers to the cooperative efforts of local historians / authors
and the people at Arcadia Publishing that make these titles available to us all.
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