Fifty Years of Night
Self-made Martin County native controls a huge enterprise centered in Inez
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:59 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
See an interactive map of U.S. county poverty rates 1960-2010
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:50 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Judge: Regulators don’t have to consider overall health impact of coal mines
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:07 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Chapter 10: Eastern Kentucky’s future chained to coal despite millions spent on diversification
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:30 AM
Fifty Years of Night
After decades of decline, black lung on the rise in Eastern Kentucky
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:14 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Chapter 9: Pain remains more than 30 years after mine blast killed 8 on Potato Branch
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:42 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Interactive: U.S. and Kentucky mining death totals over the years
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:40 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Chapter 8: How a Kentucky school teacher stopped a 756-acre surface mine — for now
Updated August 24, 2019 at 8:43 AM
Fifty Years of Night
In Eastern Kentucky, pro-coal sentiment intensifies as mines close
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:33 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Interactive: What are the different types of surface mining?
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:40 AM
Fifty Years of Night
County’s economy hobbled by outsider landowners, tax loopholes
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:01 AM
Fifty Years of Night
Jean Ritchie’s ‘Black Waters’ became theme for a movement
Updated August 24, 2019 at 9:41 AM
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