Episode 1: Old Number Seven: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part One
Old Gods of Appalachia
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The Mines Are the Only Reason Any One Was Here
The town of barlow has been gone. For over a hundred years. There were 15 little babies, as annie messer would call them, in her first through eighth grade class at the barlow school house when they were just a few days out of summer and end o the school year. The worst mining disasterhat ever happened in the state of kentucky heralded the doom of barlow. A number seven upon greasy creek, which had been on strike for the passitome that gas and fire, and 62 souls were lost. It's hard to believe you could segregate a place so small, but there you are. Some grumbled it had been a blessing that
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