"Night Comes To The Cumberlands" was by Harry Caudill a lawyer from Whitesburg and from everything I've heard one heck of a guy. When I started doing the trivia show at WMMT I took over for a relative of his who was quiting but hung around to train me and Amy for the show. A great family too.
Of course the mining industry, going back to at least the 1890's was notorious for not wanting competition for the work force or anything else to stand in the way of their profits.
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