Word: hindman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the eloquent statement made by old "Uncle Sol" Beveridge to two women campers in 1902. Upshot: a school for mountaineers at Hindman in Kentucky's feuding Knott County, high in the Southern Appalachians...
Fifteen years later, in Caney Valley, a 16-mile-long, rock-rimmed gorge, seven miles from Hindman, Mountaineer Humpty Joab spoke a similar piece. The woman who heard him was Mrs. Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Boston socialite, author, magazine writer, newspaper editor, ardent suffragette and freethinker. She had fled to Knott County to get over a nervous breakdown. And she got over it. She stayed on, with $10 cash founded Caney Creek Community Center on Humpty 's 153 barren acres...