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Episode 3: The Covenant: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Three

Old Gods of Appalachia

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Barlow's Fire - A Day on the Job

Of the 62 men in entrance won that day, they managed to pull nine men out of that black hole. They carried the screaming and the dead back to town on makeshift stretchers hastily improvised from larger sign bords and the shirts from their own backs. The church was the only sensible place to take them as the town's only meeting hall. Pastor cletus garvin had ministered to the needs of barlow for the past seven years. He'd been a miner himself for many years before the mountain let him go. But no one ever really gets away, now, do they?

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