Jackie and Frank Gentry celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on June 4. They were married in the Danforth Chapel at Berea College. The wedding was officiated by Dr. George Noss. The attendants were Gwendolyn Fields, sister of the bride, and Howard Whitaker, friend of the groom. Those attending from Blackey were the bride’s parents, Clara and Grant Blair, and Ella […]
Families and Friends
Side-by-side stolen from driveway
WhitesburgOur family received the worst kind of news anybody could get this morning, the news of the death of a loved one. Mom’s sister, Linda Joyce Pennington Hall, passed away at 6:22 a.m. at the Greg & Noreen Wells Hospice Care Center in Hazard. She was admitted there last Thursday from Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital in Whitesburg. All us nieces […]
Bakery turns two years old
HemphillCheck out our websites: www.blacksheepbrickoven.org and www.hemphillcenter.org and our Facebook pages, please. We will only be open until 12:00 noon on Saturday, July 4. Special orders can be picked up by then. We are hoping you have a blessed and safe Independence Day celebration. Our place is trying to get geared up to continue on to what appears to be […]
The Way We Were
Clips from available Mountain Eagle pages since our founding in 1907What really happened July 4? By THE HISTORY CHANNEL The Fourth of July—also known as Independence Day or July 4th— has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations goes back to the 18th century and the American Revolution. On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, […]
Almost anything beat picking berries
Points EastIf we thought that harvesting, selling and preserving nearly two acres of strawberries was some sort of practical joke related to the start of “school vacation,” imagine how we felt about taking a break from picking berries to spend the afternoon hoeing vegetables until dark. “Go hoe the sweet corn, while you rest,” or “Run out there and stake 25 […]
Mornings are nippy, evenings cool faster
Southern OhioHappy summer everyone! At least in the day as mornings are nippy to me. Evenings seem to cool down quicker for some reason, at least where I live, as the river isn’t far from me. Oh well I always have a throw on the back of my computer chair, and the electric blanket is on the recliner. That has been […]
We broke the lock
I left Lackland Field, Texas, on December 17, 1950 for Sampson Air Base, New York, driving a 1946 Olds, arriving a few days before Christmas. I drove into the town of Geneva, New York, and stopped at a service station to ask for directions to Sampson. No one could tell me how to get there. Sampson was a Navy base […]
Moments and Memories of WHS
1946 Rotary Club dines at school lunchroom Last Friday at noon the Whitesburg Rotary Club accepted an invitation from Miss Martha Jane Potter (Superintendent of Schools) to dine at the lunchroom at the Whitesburg High School. Some 24 members and guests were present for the dinner and enjoyed fried chicken, beans, potatoes, gravy, slaw, pickled beets, apple sauce, hot rolls, […]
Mrs. Campbell came across some unexpected fireworks
CowanHello everyone – We have made it to July 2020. I hope this month is calmer than the previous months. A lot of towns have canceled their Independence Day fireworks and celebrations, and I’m glad that Whitesburg is planning to have fireworks. It’s a sense of normalcy. It’s scary how the virus is making a comeback. I remember in the […]
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