the harlan county feud; all the result of a drunken quarrel. a faction war that has cost many lives and still disgraces the state of kentucky. share full article. oct. 28, 1889.

When Holly Hunter went to the coal country of southeastern Kentucky to prepare for her role in Showtime's "Harlan County War" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), she found that "the strike of 1973-74 was still ...

Harlan County War - Full Cast & Crew. 2000; 1 hr 43 mins Drama, Action & Adventure NR Watchlist. Where to Watch. A poor Kentucky woman (Holly Hunter) becomes an integral part of a violent ...

Bobby Simpson, 79, has been blind for more than a half-century, but still managed to shovel coal. Bobby’s wife, Becky, who died in 2013, was a lifelong advocate for the people of Harlan County.

Big, mean, 29-year-old Ambrose Metcalfe, who had served as a sergeant in an armored division during World War II, became its captain. He swaggered out to “throw the fear of God” into Harlan ...

Intro by Panagioti Tsolkas, interview conducted with Lill, an anarchist organizer born and raised in southeast Kentucky. When I heard news of the coal miners’ railroad blockade in Harlan County, I ...

So asked Florence Reese, an American social activist, poet and folksinger-songwriter in Harlan County, Ky., as she rallied coal miners during the brutal 1931-39 Harlan County War; which pitted ...

Over the years, when someone would squinch their face and wrinkle their brow when I told them that I was born in 1946 and stayed in Harlan County, Kentucky until I was twenty, I have ...