by Shelby Horn We moved frequently from one neighborhood to another, usually within Estill County, but in and out of school districts.  This could be stressful, for we not only had to get accustomed to new friends and acquaintances, but to new teachers and a new curriculum.  I went to Harg for part of the […]

Editor’s Note: This is a series of recollections written by Shelby Paul Horn, who was raised in Estill County and went on to become a successful attorney.  He now lives in Joplin, Missouri.  At the urging of a friend, he wrote down many of his life experiences, some of which we will share with our […]

by Shelby Horn Mothers occupy such a fundamental and honored place in the lives of most of us that it is no surprise that my earliest memories should be of my mother.  She is not a person about whom I can be objective; she always was-to me-a saintly being.  My early memories of her are […]

by Shelby Horn Perhaps in the beginning it was all right.  They were youthful; she was eighteen, Pryse was twenty-three.  He had the L&N dynamiter job.  They moved immediately to live on the railroad.  I do mean to say that they lived on the railroad, for workers lived in railroad cars (camp cars) placed on […]