Fifty Years of Night
Epilogue: Growing crisis spawns another effort to remake Eastern Kentucky
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:46 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Read articles on the history of poverty in Eastern Kentucky that are inspired by the 50th anniversary of Harry Caudill’s book “Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area.” Learn about businesses that cheaply purchased timber and coal from native people, taking valuable resources and leaving local residents poor.
Fifty Years of Night
Proposed Eastern Kentucky mine poses health dangers, plaintiffs tell federal appeals court
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:06 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Activists work to improve Manchester’s image
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:12 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Unprepared new teachers remain a problem in Kentucky
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:11 AM
Fifty Years of Night
In Eastern Kentucky, a decades-old system of school fiefdoms
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:50 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Historian’s 1960 essay foresaw Kentucky’s education problems
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:51 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Chapter 13: Schools improving in Eastern Kentucky, but progress ‘painfully slow’
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:36 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Interactive: Over 50 years, population shifts away from Eastern Kentucky
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:45 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Interactive: Educational attainment for every U.S. county
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:36 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Toll of Eastern Kentucky’s drug epidemic: violence and heartache
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:51 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Kentucky’s response to drug epidemic is yielding some good news
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:52 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Decades of poverty and vote-buying led to widespread corruption in Clay County
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:53 AM
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