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Episode 5: The Boy: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Five

Old Gods of Appalachia

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The Little Man, Myrtle's Mamma

Earl hamner was a cruel taskmaster to the men and boys who abandoned daylight to sink nearly a full ile beneath the earth. Earle wasn't liked by many, and he didn't have no family or kin down here, so it made sense that he didn't much like nobody, neither didn't have to. Earl hamner had been with bean l colen rayle for forty years. He come south with the operation from up in pennsylvania, right by barrow, the home office. On the morning of what end up being one of the deadliest mine fires in company and state history,. avalon stable boss had gone down to feed his mules and discovered the fire

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