Word: morganfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kentucky, looks as if it has been ravaged by giant groundhogs. But the culprits responsible for digging 400 holes are a more predatory species. Artifact hunters tore up the gravesites late last year to excavate tomahawks, medicine pipes and other antiquities worth hundreds of dollars apiece. Last week in Morganfield, Ky., ten men were charged with overturning 1,200 graves dating back to the 15th century...
DIED. Muddy Waters, 68, the Grammy award-winning blues singer and guitarist whose vibrant Delta sound influenced a generation of rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, who took their name from one of his songs; of cardiac arrest; in the Chicago suburb of Westmont. Born McKinley Morganfield, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Waters had a guttural baritone that soared in songs such as Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working...