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Kay Jay in Its Heyday

Kay Jay in Its Heyday Lois Slagle Cordell Buis Appalachian Heritage, Volume 2, Number 3, Summer 1974, pp. 61-69 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1974.0036 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442319/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:38 GMT from JHU Libraries Kay Jay in Its Heyday by LOIS SLAGLE CORDELL BUIS I remember Kay Jay, a small mining that had been in operation for less than camp in southeastern Kentucky, during its eight years, a decision that was to be the most prosperous years as a place of com- indirect cause of the first forceable separa- bined excitement, security, and heart- tion of our family. break: excitement in the form of mounting It is almost an impossibility to visualize progress, security in the feeling of mining Kay Jay as it was eight years prior to our camp unity, and heartbreak in the tragic, moving there. According to many of the untimely death of my father. As though it older settlers, some of whom are still living were only yesterday, I can vividly recall on Brush Creek, there was only a vast ex- my father's rather sudden decision in 1938, panse of rugged, sparsely populated terri- to move http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Kay Jay in Its Heyday

Buis, Lois Slagle Cordell.
Appalachian Review , Volume 2 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Lois Slagle Cordell Buis Appalachian Heritage, Volume 2, Number 3, Summer 1974, pp. 61-69 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1974.0036 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442319/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:38 GMT from JHU Libraries Kay Jay in Its Heyday by LOIS SLAGLE CORDELL BUIS I remember Kay Jay, a small mining that had been in operation for less than camp in southeastern Kentucky, during its eight years, a decision that was to be the most prosperous years as a place of com- indirect cause of the first forceable separa- bined excitement, security, and heart- tion of our family. break: excitement in the form of mounting It is almost an impossibility to visualize progress, security in the feeling of mining Kay Jay as it was eight years prior to our camp unity, and heartbreak in the tragic, moving there. According to many of the untimely death of my father. As though it older settlers, some of whom are still living were only yesterday, I can vividly recall on Brush Creek, there was only a vast ex- my father's rather sudden decision in 1938, panse of rugged, sparsely populated terri- to move

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