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In Search of Ed Haley 350

In Search of Ed Haley 350

After the contest, we all gathered at Pat Haley’s. The dining room table was crammed with food and the refrigerator was stuffed with every conceivable drink. People filled the downstairs rooms, many even spilling out onto the front and back porches. Once the kitchen was cleared, I got my fiddle and planted myself in a hard-back chair near Clyde and Noah. I immediately gave Mona a mandolin I’d…

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In Search of Ed Haley 315

#JohnHartford and #BrandonKirk contact #DougOwsley about exhuming the Haley-McCoy grave. #LincolnCountyFeud #amwriting #Appalachia

On July 4th, Brandon and Billy learned that a timber crew had been working at the Haley-McCoy grave for several days. Horrified, they raced to the site where they found the ground ripped up, trees felled and huge machinery roaring and chewing all over the mountainside. The Haley-McCoy grave was lost amidst toppled trees and fresh timber roads. Workers said the grave was okay, although property…

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In Search of Ed Haley 258

Stump Dalton of #Ferrellsburg recalls #EdHaley. #Appalachia #history #music #amwriting

Late one October night, I rolled into Harts on the bus. I was full of excitement, having just read an article from Smithsonianmagazine about Doug Owsley, one of the top forensic anthropologists in the country. According to the article, Doug had worked with the mass graves in Bosnia, identified some of David Koresh’s charred cult members at Waco, and helped to break the Jeffrey Dahmer case in…

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