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BOARD MEMBERS

Jacob S. ColleyPresident/CEO

SEKC Executive CommitteeChairman: Shadd Walters (US Bank)

Chairman Elect: Rick Newsom (Community Trust Bank)Vice-Chairman: Brad Hall (AEP Kentucky Power)

Treasurer: Lynette Schindler (Lynette Schindler, CPA)Secretary: James D. England (Peoples Insurance)

Immediate Past Chairman: John Blackburn(First Commonwealth Bank)

Jennifer Brown Day (Redd, Brown & Williams)Howard Roberts (University of Pikeville)

Joel Thornbury (Care More, Kimper, and Nova Pharmacies)Sam Carter (TECO Coal)

SEKC Board of DirectorsBarry Clark (Transamerica Agency Network)

David Baird (Baird & Baird, PSC)David Stratton (Stratton Law Firm)

Dr. G. Devin Stephenson (Big Sandy Community and Technical College)

Howard Roberts (University of Pikeville)Jeff Vanderbeck (Appalachian News-Express)

Jennifer Brown Day (Redd, Brown & Williams)Jim Hobbs (Citizens National Bank)

Jim Workman (Community Trust Bank) Joel Thornbury (Care More, Kimper, and Nova Pharmacies)

Kevin Elam (Food City) Laura Damron (Pikeville Medical Center)

Mike Alexander (Hilton Garden Inn)Mike Harris (Pepsi)

Neil Middleton (WYMT-TV)Paul David Slater (SNF-Flomin Coal)Philip Elswick (Summit Engineering)Randy Walters (Walters Auto Group)

Russ Barker (ARH)Sam Carter (TECO Coal)

Shannon Wright (Wright Concrete)Tony Mullins (BT Media Group)

Tracy Syck (Shred-All Documents)W. Allen Gillum (Appalachian Wireless)

Pam MullinsAccounting Manager

Kelly RoweEvents andPrograms Manager

Abigail GibsonCommunicationsManager

SEKC Staff

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Dear Visitors and Friends,

The Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce welcomes you to our beautiful area of the state.

It is a pleasure to share with you a small glimpse into what we believe makes the communities of eastern Kentucky unique and wonderful. We have worked tirelessly to unite the businesses in Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Letcher, Magoffin, Mar-tin, and Pike counties into one voice for economic development in our region.

Since the transformation into a regional chamber of commerce in 2011, the Cham-ber has grown to over 550 members strong. Each of our members, whether individu-als or companies with hundreds of employees, play an important role in a determined effort to make this region better, stronger, and more prosperous. Working together, we have the power to be heard. The chamber gives the smallest business a large voice, while providing the opportunity to tell eastern Kentucky’s story as it truly is; beauti-ful, innovative, and resourceful.

The Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce plays an active, integral and vital role in community and business development. It is a catalyst – a vehicle through which business and professional people can work together to support common goals. The Chamber is an advocate, helping members grow and prosper their businesses through networking, business management assistance, exposure, education, and re-ferrals. Government leaders also recognize the Chamber as a unified voice of busi-ness.

We hope you will use the directory in the back of this publication as your guide for doing business in this market. Our members offer a wide range of products and services and are eager to meet your needs. Chamber membership and involvement demonstrates a commitment to the strength of your communities and our region. This membership base enables us to offer many benefits to our members and the communities we serve. The directory can also be found at www.sekchamber.com.

We hope you enjoy this guide to discovering Southeast Kentucky. On behalf of our 550 members, we welcome guests to our region, and to our citizens: we hope this publication, that celebrates the abundance of southeast Kentucky, gives you even more reasons to be proud of the area you call ‘home.’

Sincerely,

Jacob S. Colley, President/CEO Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

WELCOME

Jacob S. ColleySEKC President/CEO

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen”

–Winston Churchill

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Dear Visitors and Friends,

Over the last 10 years, I’ve been honored to serve a tremendous organization. From the Pike County Chamber of Commerce to involvement with the origination of the Southeast KY Chamber, it has been an exciting journey that continues to empower our people. This Chamber looks at Eastern KY counties as one unified region. By ignoring county lines we are united to represent over 216,000 people. Improving the quality lives of our citizens is part of our mission. Together we are accomplishing great things. Every community has much to offer. Everyone matters and everyone is important. When we come as one we are The Power to be heard.

If you live here, we need you. I encourage you to get involved. There are many ways to share the gifts you’ve been given. We encourage diverse thinkers and welcome your ideas. The positive impact you can make on this region will be very rewarding. If you are visiting our area, welcome. We know you will recognize this great region by our mountain hospitality and sincere welcoming smiles. We are always looking for new neighbors and invite you to move here, raise your family and get involved.

My wife, Brooke and children, Tate and Gabriella are proud to call Eastern Kentucky home. We love where we live and where we come from. I am humbled to be Chair-man of the Southeast Kentucky Chamber for the next year. The Board of Directors and I are committed to looking forward and continuing to power our potential.

Thank you and I pray God’s abundant blessings on you, your families and this entire region.

Sincerely,

Shadd Walters

Shadd Walters, Chairman Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

FROM THECHAIRMAN

Shadd WaltersSEKC Chairman

“I have been cruci� ed with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the � esh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

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TABLE OF CONTENTSFROM THE CHAMBER 02 BOARD MEMBERS

03 WELCOME

05 FROM THE CHAIRMAN

130 SERVING OUR REGION

133 MEMBER DIRECTORY

145 GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY

HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY 10 INTO THE MOUNTAINS, THEY CAME

14 FLOYD COUNTY

17 LAWRENCE COUNTY

20 PIKE COUNTY

26 LETCHER COUNTY

29 JOHNSON COUNTY

32 MAGOFFIN COUNTY

34 MARTIN COUNTY

36 KNOTT COUNTY

REGIONAL CULTURE 40 ARTS & MUSIC

58 SHOP ‘TILL YOU DROP

60 TRADITIONAL FOODWAYS

RECREATION 69 EASTERN KENTUCKY KNOWS HOW TO CRUISE

72 THE PLACE FOR ADVENTURE

86 A FESTIVAL FOR EVERY SEASON

PROGRESS 96 OPEN FOR BUSINESS

100 STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS

104 FURTHERING EDUCATION

118 HEALTHCARE

124 COAL


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INTO THE MOUNTAINS, THEY CAME

Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Unit-ed States of America in

1792 — years before Eastern Ken-tucky counties were established, but the region’s hills and hollows were home to Native American tribes, ex-plorers, and pioneers prior to that time.

Famed explorer Daniel Boone traveled through the Cumberland Gap for the first time in 1775. A few years prior, in 1767, he ventured into the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky. He hunted along the Clinch River before coming to the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River and followed Pine Mountain through present-day Elkhorn City. Boone also spent the winter of 1767 in Salt Spring , located in pres-ent-day David in Floyd County.

In a report of Eastern Kentucky’s history published online by PBS, Eastern Kentucky was thought to

be too dangerous to inhabit in those early years because of ongoing bat-tles between the French, British and Native Americans. The Battle of Fallen Timbers which took place in Indiana in 1794 greatly reduced the number of Native Americans enter-ing the state, and pioneers flooded into Eastern Kentucky.

Property laws that gave Revolu-tionary War veterans land rights and a colonial land grant law that provided up to 400 acres of un-claimed land to people who regis-tered it, built a home, and farmed also attracted settlers.

PSB reported that the state’s pop-ulation was only 1,000 in 1780, but it blossomed to more than 100,000 people in the 1790s. According to that article, however, the proper-ty wealth was not great in Eastern Kentucky. Statewide, 25 percent of landowners possessed more than three-fourths of all land, and a

quarter of Kentucky’s property was owned by only 21 people.

“The wealth of these ‘backcoun-try elite,’ as they were called, grew and grew, while the fortunes of their neighbors, mainly self-suffi-cient yeomen farmers, stagnated or dwindled,” the article stated.

This inequality of wealth contin-ued as Eastern Kentucky counties formed.

The region’s beautiful, rugged, and mountainous terrain made de-velopment difficult in those early years, and transportation between counties took hours, and, in some areas, days. Eastern Kentucky re-mained a mostly agriculture-based region, with families growing crops, keeping farm animals, and hunting to sustain themselves.

It was a region where neigh-bor-helping-neighbor was a mode of survival, and that type of com-passion for others was so strong , it

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became a way of life for generations of Eastern Kentucky residents, and it remains central in the heart of Eastern Kentucky communities to-day.

Over the years, Eastern Kentucky communities has sustained numer-ous hardships because of floods and other natural disasters. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hunting-ton District reports on its Martin Redevelopment Project webpage that regional flooding has been a problem in Eastern Kentucky since 1862. The agency, which con-structed dams to lessen flood dam-age throughout the region and is overseeing the Martin project as a flood prevention measure, records catastrophic floods in Eastern Ken-tucky in 1957 and 1977. Events like these have a devastating impact in Eastern Kentucky, but, over the years, they have also prompted the creation of numerous lakes and en-gineering marvels like the Pikeville Cut Through Project.

In the 1920s, the Great Depres-sion shook the nation, and it was especially hard in Eastern Ken-tucky, where the largest industry — coal mining — crumbled under the weight of the economic collapse. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a “New Deal,” which provided federal jobs to the un-

employed and, through the Works Progress Administration, was re-sponsible for the construction of numerous buildings, schools, and various types of infrastructure — some of which still remain in East-ern Kentucky.

The demand for coal increased in the 1940s during World War II, and Eastern Kentucky’s economy grew with that demand. This cycle of prosperity did not last long , how-ever, as other parts of the country found alternatives to coal. The eco-nomic decline caused by this bust in the coal industry prompted an out-migration of Eastern Kentucky residents to other states where jobs were more plentiful. The popula-tion decline was as much as 20 per-cent in some counties, PBS report-ed.

Then, Eastern Kentucky found re-prieve in the words of authors like Letcher County historian Harry Caudill (Night Comes to the Cum-berlands, 1962), and journalists and educators, who brought the pover-ty in Eastern Kentucky to the na-tional forefront. President John F. Kennedy toured Eastern Kentucky counties during his 1960 presi-dential campaign. Shocked by the poverty he witnessed, he vowed to implement programs to help. One of those programs was the Appala-

chian Regional Commission, which is still in operation today. After Kennedy was assassinated, Presi-dent Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty” in 1964, allo-cating $1 billion to 11 Appalachian states through the Appalachian Development Act. Other programs that developed through this effort changed the nation — with the ad-vent of Job Corps, vocational and remedial education, Head Start, Medicare and Medicaid.


It was a region where neighbor-

helping-neighbor was a mode of survival, and

that type of compassion for others was so strong,

it became a wayof life for generationsof Eastern Kentucky

residents, and it remains central in the heart of

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During these years, Eastern Kentucky residents sold their mineral rights for mere pennies on the acre, and coal companies established businesses and coal mining camps. The miners who lived in these camps were usu-ally paid with scrips that could only be used in compa-ny-owned stores. Today, these coal mining towns are residential neighborhoods, stretching from Lawrence County to Letcher County and beyond.

The boom-and-bust cycle of coal mining brought economic hardships to the region, with the latest prob-lems occurring within the last decade. In recent years, more than 7,000 Eastern Kentucky coal miners have become unemployed.

The most recent decline in Eastern Kentucky’s econ-omy brought Gov. Steve Beshear and U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers together to create Shaping Our Appala-chian Region (S.O.A.R .) in 2013. This program, with support from numerous businesses and organizations, is bringing community leaders together to find ways to improve the economy. Already, S.O.A.R . has been responsible for spurring several programs that provide resources and assistance to struggling communities in Eastern Kentucky.

The economic downturn also spurred the develop-ment of another organization, One East Kentucky, which is working to build a sense of collaboration throughout Eastern Kentucky and recruit businesses and industries into the region.

The region is moving forward, building an economy that is steeped in creating other industries, promoting tourism through the arts, music, history and culture, and establishing itself as an outdoor adventure desti-nation in Kentucky.

In the last several years, Eastern Kentucky tourism has grown because of state-wide promotion of tourism destinations, building up communities along routes like U.S. 23, the Country Music Highway.

Agriculture is still a prominent industry in the re-gion, with farmer’s markets established in every coun-ty and programs like Grow Appalachia and Kentucky Proud promoting locally-raised goods and helping res-idents create and sustain agri-businesses.

As with those early pioneers and those who survived in spite of numerous obstacles, Eastern Kentucky res-idents remain community-minded, compassionate, re-silient, and strong in challenging times.

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Floyd County was formed by the Kentucky Legislature in 1799, from parts of Flem-

ing , Montgomery and Mason coun-ties. It is named for Virginia survey-or and military figure John Floyd, who was mortally wounded in a Na-tive American attack in 1783.

Nestled in the Cumberland Pla-teau of the Appalachian Mountains, it was the 14th county to form in Kentucky. Originally, this county contained 3,600 square miles. The county encompasses nearly 400 square miles today.

Rich in coal, oil, natural gas, and, in the early years, salt, Floyd Coun-ty became an important area in speeding the development of East-ern Kentucky during the pioneer years.

Between 1806 and 1884, all or parts of 15 counties — including Lawrence, Pike, Letcher, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, and Knott — were formed directly or indirect-ly from the original boundaries of Floyd County, the Floyd County Historical & Genealogical Society reports.

Historians mark the founding of the Leslie Settlement in Johns Creek as the county’s earliest settle-ment.

Another significant settlement was the Stratton Settlement, known as “Little Floyd,” approximately

1,000 acres in the Mare Creek/Bet-sy Layne area that would eventu-ally be partially mapped into Pike County.

Key to the county’s history is the story of Jenny Wiley, a pio-neer women who was kidnapped by Native Americans and managed to escape after five of her children were killed. Her bravery and perse-verance became a central theme in Prestonsburg , where the Jenny Wi-ley State Resort Park was built in the 1960s. The Jenny Wiley Amphi-theatre shares her story on stage ev-ery few years, and a festival is held in her honor every October.

In the early 1800s, Prestonsburg was a small community, with six families living in the city limits in 1810. The population quickly grew as it became a central trading center for the region. Coal, fur, timber and other goods were shipped on the river out of Prestonsburg to other areas. The railroad came to Pres-tonsburg in 1904, which prompted the creation of more businesses.

The story of the county’s history is shared with the stories behind numerous historical landmarks. In Prestonsburg alone, there are 14 sites on the National Register of Historic Places.

One of its most notable land-marks, the West Prestonsburg Bridge, was added to the National

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“One of its most notable landmarks, the West Prestonsburg Bridge,

was added to the National Register of

Historic Places in 1989.”

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FLOYD COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:Dec. 13, 1799 from Fleming,

Montgomery and Mason Counties

Name honors:Col. James John Floyd,

a pioneer sur veyor (1750-1783)

County seat:Preston’s Station, later renamed Prestonsburg

Historical highway markers:Battle of Middle Creek, Rt. 114; Boone Salt

Springs (later called Young’s Salt Works), David; Battle of Ivy Mountain, U.S. 23; Garfield Place, Prestonsburg (marker is missing ); Morgan’s Last Raid, South Arnold Ave., Prestonsburg; Stratton Settlement, U.S. 23 and Mare Creek Rd. (marker

is missing ); County Named, 1799, Court St.,Prestonsburg; Little Floyd, U.S. 23 and

Mare Creek Rd.; Samuel May House,North Lake Dr., Prestonsburg; Samuel May,

North Lake Dr., Prestonsburg.

National Register of Historic Places: In Prestonsburg — G.D. Callihan House,

Graham St.; B.F. Combs House, Arnold Ave.;Johns-DeRossett, restricted address;

Fitzpatrick-Harmon House, Court St.;Front Street Historic District; Garfield Place,

Second Ave.; Harkins Law Office Building,Arnold Ave.; Joseph D. Harkins House, Arnold

Ave.; Samuel May House, North Lake Drive;Fitzpatrick-May House, Arnold Ave.; Latta-May

House, Arnold Ave.; Methodist Episcopal Church, South Arnold Ave.; Middle Creek Battlefield, Rt. 114; Town Branch Bridge. County Rd. 1334; US

Post Office (current tourism building ), Court St.; and West Prestonsburg Bridge betweenPrestonsburg and West Prestonsburg.

Other locations — WheelwrightCommerce District.

Register of Historic Places in 1989. It crosses the Levi-sa Fork of the Big Sandy River at West Prestonsburg , a once booming railroad town.

Prestonsburg is also home to the Samuel May House, located on North Lake Drive, which is listed on the Na-tional Register of Historic Places as the oldest house in the city. It was constructed from bricks manufactured at the site, a 350-acre farm that served as a recruitment and supply post for the Confederate army during the Civil War.

Floyd County has five incorporated cities — Pres-tonsburg , originally named Preston’s Station, Allen, Wayland, Martin and Wheelwright — and many other communities like David, Auxier and Maytown, which came to life as coal towns.

The construction of U.S. 23 diverted traffic that flowed through the once-bustling town of West Pres-tonsburg and the city of Prestonsburg into other ar-eas of Floyd County, and coal’s boom-and-bust cycles damaged the economy both in the city and in the coun-ty. But Floyd County continues to progress, building its future on its culture, history, and natural beauty.

Key to this progress was the construction of Jenny Wiley State Resort Park, StoneCrest Golf Course, the Mountain Arts Center, Big Sandy Community & Tech-nical College, the East Kentucky Science Center and business centers like the Prestonsburg Village Shop-ping Center and Highlands Plaza.

Also key to this progress is the vision of county and city leaders, as well as leaders at the county board of education, who are working together to build a bright-er future for Floyd County’s younger generation. The work of tourism agencies and historical societies in Prestonsburg , Martin, Wheelwright and other areas also can’t go unnoticed, as they are working to improve the region through its arts, music, history, and natural beauty.


Lawrence County was created in 1821 — the same year of Pike County’s founding — from Floyd and Greenup counties, but its history

began long before that time. It was the 69th county formed in Kentucky and it

originally comprised 272,000 acres. Today, Lawrence County stretches across more than 415 square miles.

According to the county’s website, an Englishman by the name of Charles Vancouver received a patent for a 2,000-acre plot of land in present-day Louisa from the British government in 1772. George Washington surveyed this grant in the 1760s, the website reports.

Vacouver erected a fort, built some cabins and farmed this land, but he later abandoned the area. In 1815, a settler by the name of Frederic Moore migrated to Lawrence County to establish a trading center in Lou-isa, setting the framework for the county.

The county is named for James Lawrence, an Ameri-can naval officer who fought in the War of 1812. Histo-rian William Esley Connelly, a native of Jenny’s Creek

in present-day Johnson County, detailed the history of this county and other areas of the Big Sandy Valley in his “Eastern Kentucky Papers,” published in 1910.

Historian Dr. Thomas Walker named the Louisa Fork of the Big Sandy River after Princess Louisa, sister of the Duke of Cumberland (Walker had just named the Cumberland River a month or two earlier).The river became known as the Levisa Fork after 1855.

By the 1840s, Lawrence County had a thriving tim-ber industry, and in the 1850s, coal became a vital part of the county’s economy.

Lawrence County was strategically important during the Civil War, as throngs of soldiers camped in the county seat, Louisa, and the community served as a transportation route for prisoners of war. Its access to the Big Sandy River also made it an ideal location for the transportation of goods into other parts of the state.

Other Lawrence Counties communities include Blaine, Fallsburg , Kise, Ulyssess and Lowmansville.

LAWRENCE COUNTY, 1821In the heart of a scenic byway

The county’s history is embedded on historical mark-ers located throughout the area and at the foot of nine properties in the county that are part of the National Register of Historic Places.

Notable historic sites include two historical districts in Louisa and two covered bridges, the Yatesville Cov-ered Bridge and the East Fork Covered Bridge in Fall-sburg.

Among the most notable properties was the Garred House, also known as the Doc Burgess House, locat-ed along U.S. 23 about nine miles south of Louisa. This property, which dates back to 1836 — the time of the Greek revival in Kentucky — is one of the first sandstone houses constructed in the Big Sandy Valley. Local historians also believe the property housed the first stone burial vault in the county and, perhaps, all of Eastern Kentucky. The property was later converted to a hotel and, in 2009, it was purchased by Martin County Entrepreneur Jim Booth. A tornado devastat-ed this property in 2012, the building was razed and a cemetery was constructed there.

Approximately 200 people lived in Louisa when Garred House owner David Garred moved there. In 1850, Lawrence County’s population was nearly 6,300 people, and more than 16,000 people are living there now.

Eastern Kentucky’s economic decline has also affect-ed Lawrence County, but the community is progress-ing , with new businesses coming into the area.

The county’s history, culture, arts, and musical heri-tage are key elements that continue its growth.

Lawrence County is home to Yatesville Lake, which opened in 1992, offering more than 2,300 natural acres for fishing , boating , camping and other outdoor activ-ities for visitors. The Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism notes that this lake is one of the best in the state for bass, bluegill and crappie fishing and it is also home to the only bald eagle nesting area in Eastern Kentucky.

And that’s not all Lawrence County offers.The county is one of two Kentucky counties on the

Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism’s Heri-tage Harvest Driving Tour, which started in 2010. This annual tour recreates 18th, 19th and early 20th centu-ry rural Appalachian traditions and heritage through agriculture, arts, crafts and music.

Participants visit farms in Lawrence and Boyd coun-ties, with stops where sorghum, apple butter, jellies and other items are made on site, and handcrafted items, antiques and other items of interest are available for purchase. One of the stops along this route is Black

Barn Produce in Lowmansville, where visitors can step back in time into an old country general store.

Lawrence County is also home to the Kentucky Pavil-ion at Fallsburg , one of the landmark locations along the Country Music Highway. The grand, five-story welcome center houses an impressive collection of country music memorabilia and gifts. The Painted Cow Gallery, operated by the Lawrence County Arts Council, is also a popular tourist attraction in Louisa, offering handmade artwork by local artisans.

The community prides itself on being a great place to live and work, one that’s filled with the Appalachian spirit.

LAWRENCE COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:Dec. 14, 1821 from Floyd and Greenup counties

Name honors:Capt. James Lawrence, an American naval

officer during the War of 1812 (1781-1813)

County seat:Louisa

Historical highway markers:Louisa in Civil War, Lawrence County

Courthouse; Fort Bishop, Louisa; Frederick M. Vinson, Louisa; County Named, 1821, Louisa; Giant Cooling Tower, Louisa; Pioneer Furnace,

Louisa; Yatesville Covered Bridge, Yatesville;and East Fork Covered Bridge, Fallsburg.

National Register of Historic Places: In Louisa — Carter Atkins House, Madison St.;

Big Sandy Milling Company, Pike St.;First United Methodist Church, Main St.;

Capt. Freese House, Sycamore St.; Garred House, Chapel and Burial Vault, U.S. 23; Louisa

Commercial Historic District; LouisaResidential Historic District; Louisa

United Methodist Church; and Fred M. Vinson Birthplace E. Madison Ave.

Other locations — Bloody Bucket Tavern, Five Forks; East Fork Covered Bridge, Northwestof Fallsburg; and Yatesville Covered Bridge,

Fallsburg.

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PIKE COUNTY, 1821 Where progress is de� ned

Pike County, Kentucky’s most eastern county, is also Kentucky’s largest county, in terms of land area, sprawling across 788 square miles.

It was formed from Floyd County on Dec. 19, 1821, and a portion of present-day Martin County was also part of its original borders.

Pike County was the 70th county formed in Ken-tucky. The county and its seat, Pikeville, were named in honor of Brig. Gen. Zebulon M. Pike, who was killed in action during the War of 1812.

This community has always been progressive, serving as the destination for residents in outlying communi-ties for retail, banking , legal, educational and health care needs. This was true even in Pike County’s young-est years, with trade moving first by canoe, then steam-boats, then railroads, and eventually by modern roads and infrastructure.

In the early years, Pike County, lush in its natural beauty, was a prized hunting ground for Indians and pioneers who carried long rifles. Being strategically lo-cated at two forks of the Big Sandy River, the Levisa Fork and the Tug Fork, made Pike County a prime lo-cation for these early hunters.

Pike County also borders Pine Mountain, which also attracted early pioneers like Daniel Boone into the re-gion.

The development of Fishtrap Lake and dam uncov-ered thousands of Native America relics, bringing to

light centuries of history in Pike County’s mountains. The county is steeped in history, and it cherishes it.

In Pikeville alone, there are 14 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and there are doz-ens of historic landmarks that have also been identified throughout the county — some of which were discov-ered, renovated, and marked with historic signs during the past few years.

The importance of the properties most recently iden-tified came to the forefront after the History Channel released a mini-series about the Hatfield-McCoy Feud, a decades-long , violent blood feud fueled by anger that was unresolved after the Civil War. After the mini-se-ries aired the drama on national television, throngs of tourists flocked to Pike County and Mingo County, West Virginia — the bordering states in which the two feuding families lived and fought. Officials with the Pike County Tourism Convention & Visitor’s Bureau, Pikeville City Tourism, the Pike County Fiscal Court, the Pikeville City Commission, and the Pikeville Main Street Program are all working together with local his-torians to restore and promote these historic relics and properties associated with the feud. That effort has in-creased tourism and improved the economy through-out Pike County, as well as outlying communities.

The famous feud, however, isn’t the only historic endeavor that brought national attention to Eastern Kentucky’s most progressive county.


In response to flooding that devastated communities, Pikeville Mayor and visionary Dr. William C. Hamb-ley led the charge to create what the New York Times called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

The Pikeville Cut-Through project began in Nov. 1973 and was completed 14 years later at a cost of $80 million. Engineers removed 18 million cubic yards of earth to fill an empty, flood-prone riverbed, creating 400 usable acres of developable land, known now as the Riverfill area.

The project created a three-fourth-mile long channel through Peach Orchard Mountain and provided a path for railroad tracks, the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River and U.S. Highways 23, 460, 119 and KY 80. The city constructed an overlook, allowing visitors to get a first-hand look at the Cut-Through, an “engineering marvel” that spans 1,300 feet wide, 3,700 feet long , and 523 feet deep.

In the past decade, improvements have also been made to Bob Amos Park, where the overlook is locat-ed, providing walking , biking and horse-riding trails, parks, ball fields, recreational areas, and, most recent-ly, the White Lightning Zip Line. Plans continue for future developments at this location.

PIKE COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:Dec. 19, 1821 from Floyd County

Name honors:Zebulon Pike, an explorer who discovered

Pike’s Peak in Colorado (1779-1813)

County seat:Pikeville

Historical highway markers:James A. Garfield, Pikeville City Park;

Known But to God (unmarked soldier’s grave) Breaks Interstate Park; County Named, 1821, Pike County Courthouse; Pikeville College,

Hambley Blvd.; Pikeville Collegiate Institute, College St.; McCoy Graves Here, Dils Cemetery;

Pike County Courthouse and Jail, Pike County Courthouse; Effie Waller Smith (poet),

Division St.; William Ramey, Elkhorn City;Daniel Boone’s First Steps in Kentucky,

Elkhorn City; Richard Potter, Elkhorn City;

National Register of Historic Places: In Pikeville — Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger

Depot, Hellier Ave.; College St. HistoricDistrict; Commercial Historic District; Erriana

Hall, Sycamore St., R .T. Greer and Company, Auxier St.; Huffman Ave. Historic District;

Odd Fellows Building, Second St.; Pauley Bridge; Pikeville College Academy Building; Scott Ave.

Historic District; Third St. Historic District; York House, Main St; and York Mansion

(Creekmore Mansion) on Elm St.Other locations — Hatfield-McCoy Feud Historic District (in Pikeville and throughout the county);

Fordson Coal Company Buildings in Stone; and Stone Historic District.

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Pikeville, which twice earned the title of one of the “100 Best Small Towns in America,” became known as “the city that moves mountains.” That type of progress has been the theme of Pikeville and Pike County for generations. Leaders of the community seem to per-petually be searching for the next project that could be accomplished to improve the quality of life for people who live inside and outside of the county’s borders.

Like other Eastern Kentucky counties, Pike County has been affected by the boom-and-bust cycle of coal mining and a national downturn in the economy, but community leaders continuously work to find ways to progress.

The most recent additions include the construction of Pikeville Commons, a multi-million shopping cen-ter that opened this year, the ongoing development of Marion Branch, with international company Alltech as its first tenant, and the ongoing completion of U.S. 460, among other projects.

Because it is a progressive community, Pikeville and Pike County are often changing. Within the last sev-eral years, buildings that have been a part of the city’s landscape for generations have been razed, a train car that sat on Hambley Boulevard for decades has been moved, and the landscape across the county has

changed to pave the way for the construction of roads, a new courthouse, and new businesses.

The same type of change has occurred throughout Pike County’s history. In the community’s younger days, log cabins were replaced by more stately homes, a railroad that once served the heart of Pikeville was removed, the Cut-Through Project changed the city’s landscape, and asphalt replaced wagon roads and mountain trails.

With coal as its driving force and with a throng of vi-sionary leaders in its history, Pike County and its com-munities have grown in wealth and industry, setting an example for all other Eastern Kentucky communities.

Today, it is still a destination for the region’s retail, educational, financial, legal, and health care needs. The county stands as the state’s third largest banking center, and it’s home to hundreds of legal firms; thou-sands of businesses; Pikeville Medical Center, a na-tionally-recognized, award-winning hospital and Level II trauma center; two colleges (Big Sandy Community & Technical College and American National Universi-ty); the University of Pikeville, the UPIKE-Kentucky School of Osteopathic Medicine, and, soon, the first college of optometry in central Appalachia.


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PIKEVILLE TOURISM Experience everything our city has to o� er

As tourism director for the City of Pikeville I ’m very excited to share with you what’s

happening in Pikeville! Get ready for excitement at the award winning Muscle on Main weekend event takes place in the Riverfill down-town on the second Friday and Sat-urday of every month. Friday night includes burnouts and a block party followed the next day with Mus-cle on Main Cruise-In on Saturday morning and then the Street Light Challenge on Saturday night. If you’re looking to sit back and relax while enjoying great local music, don’t miss Main Street Live! our outdoor entertainment hosted by the Pikeville Main Street Program every first and third Friday night at the East KY Expo Plaza.

If that is not enough to keep you busy, then Pikeville offers many other outdoor activities that have become a big part of our ecotour-ism packages. The Zip, Paddle, and Saddle experience brings countless adventurers to our great city. The White Lightening Zip Line is one

of the newest city attractions and is growing in popularity. If you love the water then take a trip down the river thru the Hatfield and McCoy River Trails. The tour is an ex-hilarating kayak ride through the beautiful water ways of the Levisa Fork River, this two hour trip will take you through some breathtak-ing scenery including the Pikeville Cut Thru Project. Last but not least, the Dreamz Stables is a full service equestrian center featuring trail rides, pony rides, a riding ring , riding lessons, tack and much more. Dreamz Stables provides all need-ed training and equipment to make your experience enjoyable and safe. Reservations for all outdoor activ-ities can be made online at visit-pikeville.com or call 606.444.5131.

Come enjoy what new and excit-ing things are happening in Pikev-ille!

Andy LintonTourism Director,City of Pikeville


Letcher County was formed in 1842 from por-tions of Harlan and Perry counties. It was the 95th county to join the state of Kentucky.

It is named for Kentucky Gov. Robert P. Letcher, who served during the War of 1812 and in other polit-ical roles as part of the Whig Party.

Some of the county’s earliest settlers were pioneers Archelous Craft and Peter Whitaker, who built a cabin on Whitaker’s Branch in 1795.

Another pioneer settler in Letcher County was Rev-olutionary War soldier James Caudill, who frequent-ly visited the region between the 1780s and 1811 and returned to build his home there. He is an ancestor of Letcher County historian Harry M. Caudill, who brought national attention to Eastern Kentucky’s fi-nancial struggles with his book, “Night Comes to the Cumberlands.”

People travel from all over the U.S. to view Letch-er County’s Pound Gap cut-through, a natural pass through the Pine Mountain range on the Kentucky-Vir-ginia state line. This area was the first area designat-ed as a “Distinguished Geologic Site” in Kentucky. A fault bisects the mountain, and the opening made by weather and erosion made it easier for early pioneers to travel through from Virginia.

In 1751, surveyors, including Christopher Gist, ex-plored Pound Gap, and Daniel Boone and other Ken-tucky Longhunters also used this access as an entry point to Eastern Kentucky. This area was also heavily utilized — and sought after — during the Civil War.

Encompassing 339 square miles with mountain rang-es at peaks of 3,720 above sea level, Letcher County is one of Eastern Kentucky’s most beautiful natural land-marks. In addition to the expansive views offered at the top of Pine Mountain, the county also welcomes visitors to unique natural wonders like Lilly Cornett Woods, an old growth forest, and Bad Branch Falls.

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With its county seat of Whites-burg and communities like Blackey, Jenkins, Isom and others, Letcher County is steeped in history.

The county is home to a recent-ly-discovered Native American artifact — the Little Creek Picto-graphs, which were recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. These paintings, located in an undisclosed area of the county, date to between 1,000 and 1,600 A.D. and were painted by Native Americans for ceremonial or reli-gious purposes.

The downtown Whitesburg His-toric District, listed on the Nation-al Register of Historic Places, show-cases the city’s unique architecture, including stonework created by im-migrant Italian stonemasons who traveled to Letcher County in the early 20th century.

There are more than 100 histor-ic structures in this district. Some

of the most well-known structures include the John Palumbo House, the Graham Memorial Presbyteri-an Church, the Whitesburg United Methodist Church, the Ira Fields House and the Col. L.H.N. Saly-ers House. Various ashlar stone re-taining walls, some of which define residential properties, are also his-torically significant. The largest re-taining walls are located on Church St. and Hayes Ave.

According to the National Regis-ter of Historic Places, the county’s first court house was erected on the site of the present court house in 1844. It stood until 1899, when a Romanesque Revival-style brick court house was erected. The Works Progress Administration construct-ed an addition to the building , which was replaced in the 1960s.

In a 1926 article quoted by the Na-tional Register, the Mountain Eagle newspaper described the positive

aspects of the town, stating , “You can live here one year on people’s hospitality, one year on 50 cents, and the third on credit. Should you happen to die here, which looks ir-responsible unless you have an acci-dent, they will bury you for free.”

The county was once home to 75 coal camps, the biggest of which were Jenkins, built by the Consoli-dation Coal Company in 1911, and Fleming Neon, built by the Elkhorn Coal Company in 1913.

Coal’s boom-and-bust cycles have dealt dramatic blows to the county’s economy and caused tragic losses that are memorialized by residents.

The Letcher County Coal Miners’ Memorial, dedicated in Jackhorn in 2003, attracts tourists from all over the country. It honors all coal miners, especially those that lost their lives while working in the coal mines. Hundreds of red bricks line the platform of the granite memori-

“ People travel � om all over the U.S. to view Letcher

County’s Pound Gap cut-through.”


al, engraved with names of coal miners who have lived or worked in Letcher County. Family members of coal miners purchased the bricks to support and maintain the memorial.

In March 2010, state and local officials also dedicat-ed a highway marker in Oven Fork in honor of 26 men who died during the Scotia Mine disaster on March 9, 1976. That day, a violent explosion fueled by high levels of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine and killed 15 coal miners who worked nearly four miles underground. Two days later, another explosion killed 11 others.

The disaster prompted changes in mine safety regu-lations and the passage of the federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977.

Through the years, Letcher County has progressed and worked through its struggles by recruiting new industries, providing infrastructure like the Gateway Business Park, encouraging tourism through invest-ment in tourist attractions and promotion of the arts.

Integral to this success is the growth of Appalshop, a media group based in Whitesburg that’s dedicated to recording Appalachia’s history. Other keys to this suc-cess are the development of the Letcher County Art-walk events, during which businesses open their doors as exhibit halls for local artists; revitalization projects that line city streets with artwork; a construction proj-ect to streamline the Whitesburg bypass area ; and the local government’s support of venues like the Little Shepherd Amphitheatre in Jenkins, which brings the region’s Civil War history to the stage for thousands of people each summer. New businesses are being es-tablished throughout the community, including a new arts-minded business, Pine Mountain Crafts Co-op.

Despite economic challenges it has faced in recent years, Letcher County is a growing and vibrant com-munity.

LETCHER COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:March 3, 1842 from Perry and Harlan counties.

Name honors:Robert P. Letcher, a veteran of the

War of 1812, Kentucky Governor (1788-1861)

County seat:Whitesburg

Historical highway markers:Pound Gap, U.S. 119, Jenkins; Inspiration

Mountain ( John Fox Jr.), U.S. 119, Whitesburg; County Named 1842, U.S. 119, Whitesburg;

Scuttle Hole Gap Road, Ky. 15; PioneerAncestor, Ky. 15; Kingdom Come, Ky. 931;

Early Settler, Ermine; Pilot-Spy-Hero,Whitesburg Courthouse; and Jenkins,

U.S. 23.

National Register of Historic Places: C.B. Caudill Store in Blackey; Central Power

Plant in Jenkins; Kingdom Come Creek Schoolin Whitesburg; and Whitesburg Historic

District; Little Creek Pictographs,address restricted.

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ohnson County was formed in 1843 from land given by Floyd, Lawrence and Morgan counties, but the area was settled long before that time.

Homes existed in the county in the early 1800s and its county seat, Paintsville, had already been char-tered as a city as part of Floyd County for nine years. Military dispatches from the Revolutionary War men-tioned what is now Paintsville as far back as 1780.

The city was initially called Paint Lick Station because of its location near the Big Sandy River and Paint Creek, and the name was formally changed in 1843. Historians believe the city’s name was derived from the colorful Native American markings on rocks and trees that lined the banks of Paint Creek.

There are more than 40 properties listed on the Na-tional Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, including four archaeological sites that provide clues to Kentucky’s history dating as far back as 500 BC and 1499 BC. These archaeological sites, some of which are not publicly accessible, confirmed that the Adena Indi-

ans, who were mound builders, lived in Paintsville cen-turies before the discovery of North America.

Like neighboring Floyd County, Johnson County honors the life and courage of pioneer settler Virgin-ia Sellards “Jenny” Wiley, who was captured by Native Americans and held captive as five of her children were killed. Jennie’s Creek was named in her honor after she crossed the waterway to escape her captors. After returning home, Wiley lived in Johnson County and is buried there.

Some of the county’s first settlers includes members of the Preston, Ramey, Dixon, Huff, Franklin, Hager, Stafford and Auxier families. Many of these first settlers were Revolutionary War soldiers.

The county is also home to Harman’s Station, one of the first permanent settlements in Eastern Kentucky. Pioneer Mattias Harman built a cabin in 1755 in pres-ent-day Johnson County and he returned in 1787 to es-tablish a permanent settlement there at the junction of John’s Creek and the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River.

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Harman and these first settlers helped Jenny Wiley es-cape her Native American captors.

Dr. Thomas Walker, a famed Kentucky historian who named the Louisa (Levisa) River and other areas in the Big Sandy Valley, also camped in Paintsville in 1750.

River access and steamboat travel was a major eco-nomic driver for Johnson County. The first steam boat traveled up the Big Sandy to Paintsville in 1837, the county’s website reports. This mode of transportation allowed for the movement of timber and other goods into other parts of the state.

Johnson County was the home of entrepreneur John C.C. Mayo, a “dreamer and doer” from Paintsville who helped open the coal fields of eastern Kentucky to America’s industrial states in the north and, according to the county’s website, “single-handedly brought rail-road service to the region.”

“Without the life and work of John C.C. Mayo, Paintsville, its banks and churches, its streets and public utilities would have been many years later in arriving ,” the report stated.

The railway system opened in 1904 in Paintsville, pro-viding yet another means to expand the growing com-munity.

When the coal industry waned in Johnson County, Mayo negotiated mineral rights leases throughout East-ern Kentucky. By the early 1900s, tens of thousands of tons of coal were pouring out of the region. A million-aire, Mayo influenced politics in Kentucky and nation-ally. The region’s coal mining history is honored in the Coal Miner’s Museum in Van Lear.

Johnson County has nearly 262 square miles within its borders, and is home to Paintsville Lake State Park, which offers many outdoor adventures for visitors. Out-lying communities include Staffordsville, Tomahawk, Blaine, Red Bush, Lowmansville and others.

The county is also well-known for its antique shopping district and the famed U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum, which plays hosts to numerous tours through-out the years. Other attractions include the Mountain Homeplace Farm and its “In the Pines Amphitheatre,” the Johnson County stock-yard, a large flea market that has welcomed guests for generations, and several large shopping plazas in the heart of downtown Paintsville. In a move to attract even more tourism, Paintsville officials are working toward achieving designation as a Kentucky Trail Town and the Big Sandy Area Development Dis-trict is working with leaders in the both Johnson and Floyd counties to create a river trail attraction.

Progress continues in this vibrant commercial district of Eastern Kentucky.

JOHNSON COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:Feb. 24, 1843 from Floyd,

Lawrence and Morgan counties

Name honors:Richard Mentor Johnson, a general in the War

of 1812 who ser ved vice president (1780-1850)

Historical highway markers:Mission Accomplished, U.S. 460, Paintsville;

Jennie’s Creek, Paintsville; War on the Big Sandy,Hager Hill; Morgan’s Last Raid, Paintsville; Jenny

( Jennie) Wiley, Paintsville; Harman Station,Paintsville, The Walker Expedition, Paintsville,

American Historian, Paintsville; County Named,1843, Paintsville High school; Paintsville, Paintsville

Bypass; and John C.C. Mayo “Dreamer and Doer,” Paintsville.

National Register of Historic Places: In Paintsville — Thomas Akers House, Fifth St.;

Archer House, Euclid Ave.; Dameron ShelterArchaeological Site, address restricted (500-1499 BC);

Daniel Davis House, U.S. 460; First Baptist Church, College St.; First Methodist Church, Main St.; First National Bank, Main St.; Foster Hardware, Main St.; Mayo Methodist Church, Third St.; John C.C. Mayo

Mansion, Third St.; Thomas Mayo House, Second St.; Paintsville City Hall, Main St.; Paintsville County

Club, Davis Branch; Paintsville High School, Second St.; Paintsville Public Library, Second St.; Patterson House (Slone House), West St.; H.B. Rice Insurance

Building, Court St; Addison Salyer House (Salyer House), Jenny’s Creek; Sparks Stone Mounds, address

restricted; Francis M. Stafford House, Paintsville; Judge Jim Turner House, Third St.; Webb House,Main St.; Byrd and Leona Webb House, Main St.;

and Tobe Wiley House, Euclid St. In Oil Springs — Blanton Archeological Site

(500-999 BC to 1499 BC); John Davis House; Oil Springs High School Gymnasium; Oil Springs

Methodist Church; and Sparks Shelter Archeological Site, address restricted.

In Stambaugh — Stambaugh Church of Christ;Stambaugh House ( J.H. Rice House); and

Van Hoose House. In Red Bush — Jeff Bond House (Ellis Hamilton

House); Williams House; and Lloyd HamiltonMott House.

Others — Flat Gap School, Flat Gap; John J. andEllen Lemaster House, Low Gap; David McKenzie Log

Cabin, Volga; Mine No. 5 Store (Webb Store), Van Lear; Meade Memorial Gymnasium, Williamsport;

Ben Mollett Cabin, Williamsport; Wiley Rice House, Asa; and Salyer House, Asa.

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When historian Dr. Thomas Walker camped in present-day Salyersville in 1750 during his journey from the Cumberland Gap on

the Warrior’s Trail, he described the area as a “great sea of cane, teeming with elk,” the Magoffin County His-torical Society reports.

Like neighboring communities in Eastern Kentucky, Magoffin County was home to many pioneers prior to its founding in 1860.

The county’s first settlement (called Prather’s Fort and, later, Licking Station) came in 1794, when Ar-chibald Prater, John Williams, Ebenezer Hanna, Clay-ton Cook and others attempted to settle in the county, but were driven out by Native Americans. They re-turned in 1800 and settled Licking Station on a hill in a horse-shoe bend of the Licking River.

One of the county’s most prominent settlers was Wil-liam “Uncle Billie” Adams, the founder of the county seat of Salyersville. Adams owned extensive farm land, a hotel, gristmill, tannery and blacksmith shop. The village that grew up around Adams’ home was called “Adamsville,” until Magoffin County was officially created in 1860. The town was renamed Salyersville in honor of a Sam Salyer, a legislator who sponsored the county’s creation in the Legislature. Adams and his wife donated property for the courthouse and other public buildings in the community.

In her Eastern Kentucky and the Civil War blog , his-torian Marlitta H. Perkins explains that Salyersville was “a one-store, crossroads town with a blacksmith shop and about 20 inhabitants” during the Civil War.

It was located on Mount Sterling-Pound Gap Rd., the longest pre-Civil War state road and major overload passage from the state’s Bluegrass region to southwest Virginia, Perkins reported.

The county had a population of 3,485 people in 1860. Today, more than 12,000 people reside there.

Magoffin County is proud of its history. The Magoffin County Historical Society preserves

the community’s Old Pioneer Village Complex, a col-lection of authentic log buildings located in Salyers-ville. These cabins serve as living history center of local artifacts, furnishings, and early crafts, and they attracts tourists to the community throughout the year.

The Maggoffin County Muzzleloaders Club also cel-ebrates this history, teaching youth and adults how to build muzzleloader rifles like those used by pioneer settlers.

Another of its historic treasures is located at the site of Licking Station, the community’s first settlement. The Gardner Farm, owned by the Gardner family since the 1830s, has been nominated to be listed on the Na-tional Register of Historic Places.

Benjamin F. Gardner originally owned the farm, and his ancestors still live there. Six generations of the Gardner family are buried in the cemetery on the prop-erty. The home was originally built by early settlers as a blockhouse to protect them from Indian attacks, and, later, Gardner ran a trading post on the property.

Gardner was one of the region’s first international en-trepreneurs, a genealogical website reported. He paid Eastern Kentucky root gatherers six cents a pound for

ginseng and sold it to China for 44 cents a pound. Gin-seng collectors are still prominent in Magoffin County and other Eastern Kentucky counties.

Magoffin County experienced economic declines similar to other Eastern Kentucky communities, and the county continues to recover from a tornado that devastated Salyersville in 2012. Swaths of broken trees still line the mountainous terrain that surrounds the county, and new stores have been and are continuing to be built to replace those lost in the disaster.

With more than 300 square miles in its borders, Ma-goffin County is located on the Licking River, border-ing Floyd County, and it is less than 100 miles from the bustling town of Lexington. Outlying communities include Ivyton, Royalton, Elsie, Falcon and Gunlock.

Its location offers the promise of a bright future for the community, as a massive road construction project is underway to expand the Mountain Parkway to make travel easier from Salyersville to Prestonsburg. The four lanes of highway that will be built for this new section of the Mountain Parkway are expected to bring

more people into Salyersville and Magoffin County.A key part of the community’s future progress also

lies in the development of the Dawkins Line Rail Trail, a bike, horse, and pedestrian trail that will eventual-ly stretch 36 miles across several counties. Once com-plete, it will be the longest rail trail in Kentucky.

Currently, 18 miles of this trail is complete from Hager Hill in Johnson County to Royalton in Magof-fin County, offering visitors the experience of 24 tres-tles and the 662-ft. Gun Greek Tunnel. The opening of this trail has already attracted tourists from through-out the U.S. and spurred the opening of several busi-nesses. Seth Kugel, who writes the “Frugal Traveler” column for the New York Times has published an arti-cle about his Dawkins Line experience.

Magoffin County’s resiliency, its ability to overcome obstacles, its reverence for its history and its ability to adapt and progress in challenging and changing times make it shine brightly on the map of Eastern Kentucky communities.

MAGOFFIN COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:Feb. 22, 1860 from Floyd,

Johnson and Morgan counties

Name honors:Beriah Maggoffin, Kentucky governor

during the Civil War (1815-1855)

County seat:Salyersville

Historical highway markers:First Settlement, Magoffin County Courthouse;

Civil War Action, Royalton; County Named, 1860, Magoffin County Courthouse; Ivy Point Skirmishes, Salyersville; Reuben Patrick Grave,

Ivyton; and William “Uncle Billie” Adams,Salyersville.

National Register of Historic Places: In Salyersville — Judge D. W. Gardner House,

Ky. 7; and Salyersville Bank, West Maple.


Martin County was formed in 1870 from portions of Floyd, Lawrence,

Johnson, and Pike counties, but like other Eastern Kentucky counties, pioneers frequented the land prior to that time.

Historical markers in the com-munity indicate that one of those settlers, James Ward, also known as Pioneer War, was a Revolutionary War soldier who came to Kentucky in 1779 as a participant in the Clark expedition. He fought in several battles and lived 50 years in Martin County’s Rockcastle Creek before he died in 1848 — decades before the county officially formed.

Martin County is named in honor of Congressman John Preston Mar-tin, who once lived in Prestonsburg and is buried in the May Cemetery near the Samuel May House.

Another notable Martin Coun-ty native was Henry L. Clay, who taught for more than three decades in Martin County and Williamson, W.Va. He served on the committee that formed the Methodist Church by uniting Northern, Southern, and Protestant Methodists.

The county seat is in Inez, which

underwent some turmoil during the Civil War. Other communities in-clude Beauty, Lovely, Warfield, and Pigeon Roost.

Coal mining’s boom-and-bust cy-cle has dealt some significant eco-nomic blows to this community.

National Public Radio highlight-ed the economic struggles in Martin County in an article published in January that detailed the progress of the country’s “War on Poverty” over the past 50 years.

President Lyndon Johnson visited Martin County in 1964 and, with the national media attention given to that visit, Martin County gave a “face” and a name to the War on Poverty, NPR reported, noting that the poverty rate in the coal mining community was more than 60 per-cent at the time.

Iconic images of the War on Pov-erty were taken at the small home of Martin County resident Tom Fletcher, which still stands.

Martin County’s poverty level has improved significantly and, despite economic challenges, the communi-ty is building a brighter future, de-veloping plans to increase adventure tourism to improve the economy.

As the county continues its move

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forward, the Martin County Historical Genealogical Society is working to preserve its treasures of the past, hosting online auctions and other fundraisers to save the Himlerville Mansion, which is one of two sites in the county on the National Register of Historic Places.

Located in Beauty, this home was owned by Martin Himler, who was known internationally for founding the Himler Coal Company, a coal company owned by Hungarian miners who were permitted to be stock-holders and own their own homes — much unlike the business models of company-run coal mining towns in neighboring Eastern Kentucky communities.

According to an article on the Appalachian History website, Himler came from Hungary in 1907 with nine cents in his pocket at the tender age of 18. A miner in other states initially, Himler soon created a newspaper that offered news from America and Hungary for Hun-garian miners and found a hefty following of 60,000 readers, the website reports. By 1922, more than 1,000 people lived in Himlerville, now known as Beauty, and Himler’s home sat on a hill overlooking the bustling town. Himler’s coal company eventually went bank-rupt, and the town was devastated by a flood in 1928, sending most of the Hungarian miners to work in West Virginia.

The historical society wants to restore the home to preserve that Hungarian immigrant history with hopes that it will become a national landmark.

It is projects like these that will keep Martin County moving forward.

MARTIN COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:Sept. 1, 1870 from Floyd,

Lawrence, Johnson and Pike counties

Name honors:John Preston Martin, congressman (1811-1862)

County seat:Inez

Historical highway markers:Warfield Skirmish, Warfield; Pioneer War,Inez; County Named, 1870, Martin County Courthouse; Moses Stepp, Lovely; William

McCoy Sr. and Lewis Dempsey, Inez.

National Register of Historic Places: Martin Himler House, Beauty; andMartin County Courthouse, Inez.


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Knott County formed in 1884 from por-tions of Floyd, Letcher, Perry and Breath-itt counties, and English, Irish, Scottish, French and German pioneers settled in

this area as early as the 1700s. Named for Gov. James Proctor Knott, Knott County

was the 118th county to be organized in Kentucky. Its county seat, Hindman, was named Cornett’s Mill

during the Civil War in honor of Samuel Cornett, who owned a grist mill near the forks of Troublesome Creek.

It’s home to several historic sites on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Bolen Build-ing and Hindman Ben Franklin on Main St., Hindman, and other buildings.

Appalachia and, in fact, the entire country, owes much to this county for its contribution to the edu-cation of young people. Hindman is the site of Amer-ica’s first settlement school, the Hindman Settlement School, which is still in operation today, and another significant educational landmark, Alice Lloyd College, which was founded in Knott County’s Pippa Passes.

Several documentaries have been produced about the Hindman Settlement School, founded by May Stone and Katherine Petit in the early 1900s. This school built the framework for the public school system that was eventually developed in Eastern Kentucky and throughout Appalachia, offering kindergarten and in-dustrial education for the first time in the mountains.

Today, it offers a specialized educational program for children with dyslexia, a craft shop, and various pro-grams, like the week-long Family Folk Life week, offer-ing classes from Appalachian artisans, and the Appala-chian Writers Workshop, which attracts writers from all over the country.

Founded by Alice Spence Geddes Lloyd, Alice Lloyd College has also educated generations of mountain families. Lloyd, a native of Boston, came to Ivis in 1916 at the invitation of a local resident. She implemented a student work program at the college to ensure Appa-lachian students who could not afford tuition could still obtain a quality education — a model Alice Lloyd College still uses today.

She later moved to Caney Creek and was joined by June Buchanan, a New York resident who helped her charter the Caney Junior College in 1923, and later, Alice Lloyd College was born. This college consistent-ly ranks high nationally for the number of students who graduate without college debt.

Thanks to Lloyd’s leadership, the Caney Creek Com-munity Center and more than 100 other schools were formed in Eastern Kentucky.

These educational facilities operate as an example of the type of progress that’s taken place in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky since the pioneer days. They, are not, however, the only examples of how Knott County — and Eastern Kentucky — have progressed through the years.


With coal mining as a major economic force in the county, Knott County shares one shining example of how previously-mined land can be utilized for eco-nomic growth.

The method of strip mining removed mountains in Eastern Kentucky — at the protest of some — but Knott County turned that once-vacant land into a vi-brant economic driver for the community.

The county’s Mine Made Paradise Park, which at-tracts thousands of tourists from all over the country, was constructed on a mountaintop removal site. It of-fers more than 100 miles of trails for ATV, bikes, and horse rides in Knott County.

Other examples of this type of post-mine land use can be seen at the Pikeville-Pike County Airport in Pike County, a recycling facility in Letcher County, Stone Crest in Floyd County, the Honey Branch Regional Business Park in Martin County, and other locations.

There’s no doubt Eastern Kentucky looks much dif-ferent than it did when those pioneers began settling in the mountains generations ago. There’s also no doubt that it will continue to change.

KNOTT COUNTYAT A GLANCE

Created:May 15, 1884 from Breathitt,

Floyd, Letcher and Perry counties

Name honors:James Proctor Knott, Kentucky governor

County seat:Hindman

Historical highway markers:Morgan’s Last Raid, Hindman; Alice Lloyd

College, Garner; Hindman Settlement School, Hindman; County Named, 1884, Knott County Courthouse; Pioneer Educator, HIndman; Carr

Creek Center, Hindman; Folk Music Scholar, Hindman; Founders Shack, Pippa Passes; and

Cordia School, Cordia.

National Register of Historic Places: In Hindman — Bolen Building on Main St.;

Hindman Ben Franklin on Main St.; Dr. Jasper Stewart House north of Hindman and Young’s

Department Store and Hotel on Main St.

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ARTS &MUSIC

Cultural expressionin the mountains

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The cultural traditions in southeastern Ken-tucky run as deep as the hollows and crevic-

es of the mountain landscape we call home. With a history of a “making do” attitude in these mountains, res-idents have long developed ways of entertaining themselves, from cre-ating their own items of basic need using the materials around them, passing down oral histories through elaborate stories, and expressing all manner of emotion, experience, and thought through visual arts, music, and dance. The traditional ways of cultural expression have been passed down, preserved, revived, and shared with the outside world for generation after generation and most of them are still very alive in our communities today. Not only do local residents and visitors alike experience traditional mountain folk arts in southeastern Kentucky, but many regional counties can be said to be a cultural mecca, having the unique blend of the tradition-al and modern represented within their communities.

If you are interested in exploring the idiosyncratic forms of art in the mountains predating industrializa-tion, mass migrations and immigra-tions, and improved access through infrastructure, don’t hesitate to ask residents where you can find the

best representations of their cultur-al scene. Southeastern Kentuckians are very proud of their tradition-al ways. As you find your bearings within the community begin with the obvious and notable places to visit like Appalshop in Letcher County, Appalachian Artisan Cen-ter in Knott County, and Pikeville - Pike County Museum. Through the efforts of the various local arts organizations and collaborations it is easy to get a sense of the highly individualized nature of the folk arts and music of the mountains by seeking out performances and gal-lery showings of the local artists and musicians they feature.

Letcher County is the home of Lee Sexton, one of the elders of the long held traditions of eastern Kentucky banjo picking. Sexton is 87 years young and still plays at re-gional festivals, music venues, and squaredances alongside the next generation of mountain musicians he has inspired. If you are fortunate enough to hear Lee Sexton play, you will immediately be aware that you are witness to the authentic eastern Kentucky sound.

Residents and visitors in south-eastern Kentucky can experience the traditional mountain music most readily through catching per-formances, festivals, and work-shops conducted by the dedicated

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contemporary set of old time musicians. On most weeks throughout the year, you can hear the sounds of tradition being played as they have for more than a few centuries now throughout the region. Multi-in-strumentalists and singers such as Kevin Howard from Letcher County, Brett Ratliff from Johnson County, and John Haywood from Floyd County entertain far and wide having studied with elder musicians in order to catch the songs (many by ear) of our rich and var-ied musical history. As the traditional musical sound meets modern ears diversification happens and many incarnations of old time inspired music can be heard within the songs of local bands from new old time, bluegrass, rock, and pop country such as Rich and the Po’ Folk, Tommy Webb Band, The Kevin Prater Band, The Giant Rooster Sideshow, Adkins & Loudermilk, James E. Webb Band, and Taylyn Combs & Sunrise Ridge.

U.S. 23 is called the Country Music Highway for a good reason, and the U.S. 23 Country Music High-way Museum is a highlight of visiting Paintsville in Johnson County. In a similar manner as their ances-tors before them, southeastern Kentucky musicians are passing along their musical heritage to the younger generation. The aforementioned Kevin Howard is one

of many who teaches through the Passing the Pick and Bow afterschool program in Letcher County which is sponsored by Appalshop’s Traditional Music Program and held at the county’s public schools. Traditional old time music is continuing to be passed to the next generation of musicians every summer at the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School also in Letcher County and is sponsored through the Cowan Creek Commu-nity Center. Bluegrass music can be seen as a living , breathing entity all over the state as new youth ori-ented bands are sprouting up and receiving attention. First Time Around from Louisa, Kentucky is one of these with the oldest member being 17 years of age and the youngest 10.

With so much attention focused on the amazing tra-ditional music of southeastern Kentucky, it can be easy for visitors and residents to overlook the growing ac-cess to performances of all genres of music within the region. The opening of the Eastern Kentucky Exposi-tion Center in Pikeville has allowed residents to attend the concerts of major commercial acts and area favor-ites in the same venue a short drive from home. Small-er venues are consistently booking , alongside talented locals, big name acts such as Jason Isbell, GANGS-TAGRASS, Those Darlin’s, Brian Owens, L.A. Guns,

St. Paul and the Broken Bones, and Pokey LaFarge. It must be not-ed that the region is supporting a thriving youth and countercultural music scene that has been providing an alternative to the mainstream musical experience with experimen-tal, outside of the box, area musi-cians forming new groups in genres such as punk, indie, hardcore, noise punk, metal, hip-hop, and rap.

Youth Bored, a youth led and ori-ented music gathering , is an excel-lent example of do-it-yourself cul-ture in the Kentucky mountains. Having begun in 2000, it is still go-ing strong in various venues along the streets of downtown Whites-burg. Youth Bored focuses primar-ily on developing an outlet for the punk rock enthusiasts that have become prevalent through many of our mountain towns. Shows happen regularly as a line up is built, and those who attend will see not only local bands like Google Boys and Globsters, but national and inter-national bands from countries such as Japan, Israel, and Canada. Cur-rently organized through the efforts of Mikie Burke and Adam Brewer, Youth Bored provides interested mountain youth an avenue for self expression, camaraderie, and inclu-sion on the world stage.

Creating something out of noth-ing has been a part of mountain cul-

ture from time immemorial. Art and craft is sewn within the fabric of the landscape and comes as naturally to so many residents as does waking up in the morning. The long histo-ry of the arts and craftsmanship in the Kentucky mountains began out of necessity as Native American, European, African, and Colonial American settlers made a life with only the supplies they could carry and the abundance of the land. As life here began to afford most with all the modern amenities, it would seem that art and craft would take a backburner to accessibility and convenience. The truth is, howev-er, that while our ancestors created their art and craft for purposes of functionality and practicality, they poured their personal expression and style into every piece. There is no store bought blanket that can compare to a handmade quilt sewn with care in a pattern that has lain over your family for centuries.

Traditional and functional moun-tain crafts can still be admired in the handwork of artists like Terry Rat-liff (Master Woodworker of Floyd Co.), Loneli Polly (Loom Weaver of Letcher Co.), Douglas Nasel-road (Master Artist in Luthiery of Knott Co.), (Michael Ware Potter of Knott Co.), and Francis Whitak-er (Master Basket Maker of Letcher Co.). The mesmerizing , time-hon-

ored crafts of these artists and more can be found at area festivals, lo-cal businesses, and artisan centers. The Appalachian Artisan Center in historic downtown Hindman, Ken-tucky is one of these. There you’ll find artists’ studios, handcrafted art and gifts, regional literature, master and apprentice luthiers, and a cafe. The Appalachian Artisan Center hosts annual arts related events, workshops, and art camps.

Another organization dedicated to promoting the arts throughout and outside of the region, which is located in Hindman, is the Hind-man Settlement School. Through their Folk Arts Education program the settlement school provides cul-turally relevant arts and human-ities curriculum for Knott County schools and cultural programs and outreach in the wider community. Brett Ratliff is the Program Direc-tor at the settlement school and is a prime example of how the artists and musicians of the region are di-rectly involved in preserving and promoting all the traditions and arts of the mountains.

Modern artistic representations can be found just as readily as those arts grounded in usefulness. A num-ber of remarkable visual artists live and work in southeastern Kentucky and their artistry can be viewed and purchased in many of the same loca-


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tions where the work of our craftspeople can be found. There are numerous locations with dedicated gallery space that highlight the local visual arts. In Whites-burg , Appalshop, Summit City Lounge, Harry M. Cau-dill Public Library, and the Letcher County Tourism Building all exhibit rotating art showings from area artists and those from outside the region. Other es-tablishments where the visual arts can be found are the Mountain Arts Center and Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Prestonsburg , Appalachian Arti-san Center and Kentucky School of Craft in Hindman, Oil Springs Cultural Arts and Recreation Center in Oil Springs, and The Painted Cow Gallery in Louisa.

Pikeville - Pike County Museum is yet another space making an effort at featuring the visual arts. There you can find where the traditional meets the modern, one impacting the other. Located on Division Street

in downtown Pikeville, the museum exhibits local art-ists and artisans on a rotating basis. Events such as art receptions, film screenings, artisan demonstrations and live music are included in the offerings.

Local visual artists have many opportunities to re-ceive support and professional development through the several art organizations and groups that have be-gun across the region. EpiCentre Arts, a non-profit functioning as a support group, cooperative, and com-munity arts organization, is just one example of the many. EpiCentre Arts, in particular, is involved in a number of new projects within a 100 mile radius of Whitesburg that include Alice Art Center in Whites-burg , which will provide both studio and gallery space, and as a support network for the Pine MountainScenic Trail.

It is worthwhile to discover the area artists as indi-viduals. So many southeastern Kentucky visual artists have highly impressive bodies of work and are involved in interesting projects. One such artist is Lacy Hale from Knott County and currently residing in Letcher County. Hale had known she would be an artist since the age of five and attended Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, NY to further hone her talents. At age 20, she returned to her mountain home where she contin-ues to capture the essence of people and place through her stylized realistic approach to oil painting. Hale is also directly associated with a number of regional arts groups such as EpiCentre Arts, Appalachian Women of the Arts, and East Kentucky for Arts Education. She was recently appointed to the Kentucky Arts Council where she represents the region well. Her work has been shown outside of the Kentucky mountains as well and notably in a traveling Smithsonian exhibit in 2012.

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John Haywood is another regional artist not to miss. Originally from Floyd County, Haywood has spent his entire life in the realm of art and music. Haywood’s paintings are Appalachian narratives in the sense that they tackle the glorious, the stereotypes, and the col-lective story of southeastern Kentucky head on in an unapologetic beauty that at the same time creates a sense of wonder and deep questioning. Having studied art with another Floyd County native painter, Thomas J. Whitaker, Haywood was inspired to pursue a career in art and studied at Morehead State University and the University of Louisville. After college, Haywood apprenticed in the art of tattooing with the national-ly recognized Tray Benham (Big Daddy Tray) in Fort Knox. He has shown artwork far and wide, has received respectable national media coverage, and his work can be found in collections around the world. Haywood currently owns and works from The Parlor Room Fine Art and Custom Tattoo in Whitesburg.

Pamela Henry from Lawrence County paints light in a way that demands an emotional response. Henry is a mostly self taught artist having pursued her inter-

ests in art through some general college courses and her own motivation. Her work clearly displays the so-lace she finds in nature and her intrigue in the human spirit and everyday objects through vibrant colors and special attention to geometric form. Henry works pri-marily in acrylics and applies her skills across multiple genres including abstract, furniture, mural, landscape, portraiture, and whimsy. Henry’s work can be found at The Painted Cow Gallery in Louisa and has been internationally collected.

The opportunity to explore or share the rich arts and music culture of southeastern Kentucky is a real priv-ilege. Unique in every aspect from the traditional to the modern, what is culturally present in the Kentucky mountains is often misunderstood. It is becoming in-creasingly true that artists, craftspeople, and musicians are carving out a living in the mountain towns that have inspired their talents. This brings an automatic depth to the experience of the residents and visitors to the region as this beautiful and embraced cultural heritage is the backdrop of every interaction.


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Many people in Southeastern Kentucky practice bow hunting and archery. While the majority use compound bows and carbon arrows, a Floyd coun-

ty man practices archery in an old fashioned way. Chris Riley, a traditional bowyer, crafts his own bows and ar-rows out of all natural materials found throughout the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. There are no complex pulley systems or hi-tech, state of the art materials cre-ated in some far-off laboratory. Starting from nothing but a log , Chris cuts, splits, and shaves down the wood into a fully functional traditional longbow.

“I do what’s called traditional bowyering , which means that I only use raw materials that I harvest my-self and only hand tools to work those materials,” states Riley.

Riley describes the long and tedious process that he implements to craft his bows.

“The process of making wooden bows from hand tools can be a very lengthy process. Just stripping that down to its bare bones, there’s basically three steps to it.”

“One is acquiring the stave. You can use a board for it, but what I do is cut a log. You split those logs out using iron wedges and a mallet which gives you half logs. You then split the half logs into quarter pieces and those pieces make your stave. A stave is essentially just a long triangular piece of wood that will become the bow eventually.”

“The second step is drying the stave. This can take up

to a year on average. This process can be speeded up, some people use kilns, but I don’t have anything like that though. Every piece that I cut I air dry myself.”

“The third step is when your stave is dry enough to bend, when it’s down to the right moisture percentage, you can start bending it. That process is called tiller-ing. That’s when you can add a string and the piece becomes a bow. On average, if you have a piece that’s ready to bend, it can be done in a few months. If you’re cutting a piece from green wood, on average, it takes about a year.”

Besides crafting his own bows out of raw logs, Riley also creates his own arrows using wood that he finds near his Floyd County home.

“Arrows are kind of a different beast all together. There are two schools of thought with arrows, there’s what you call natural shaft and there’s what you call split shaft.”

“Split shaft is when you get your arrow from a log the same way I do a bow. The process is the same, it be-gins with splitting the log up and getting a board from that, and then splitting that board into blanks.”

“For a natural shaft arrow, which would be some-thing like bamboo, river cane, or wild rosewood, the process begins by curing the piece of wood. That can take six months to a year right off the bat, but with an arrow, they don’t need to be fully cured when you make them because they’re not going to be bending like a bow. To make a set of six natural shaft arrows, it takes me about four to six months.”

OLD-FASHIONED CRAFTSMANChris Riley, Traditional Bowyer


Riley describes what he finds to be the most diffi-cult part of creating a bow. He states that each piece creates its own unique set of challenges, which is what makes his work interesting.

“The most challenging thing about making wooden bows and arrows with hand tools is the fact that you’re working with wood. Every single piece that you work is different and that’s usually related to grain orienta-tion. There can be imperfections, knots, and branches in the wood. All this stuff creates very unique chal-lenges to each piece. That is the most challenging , and rewarding , part as well because it keeps it interesting and it never gets stale when each piece you work on is completely different.”

Just like the Native Americans and early pioneers, Riley uses different animal skins, antlers, bones, and feathers to accomplish his work.

“All my animal hides, feathers, bones, things like that, those are all things I find in nature. I practice what I call ethical hide working , which means that I don’t kill animals specifically for their skins. I find everything that I use in nature or it’s been given to me.”

From seeing the bow in his head to holding it in his hands, Riley describes what he feels is the most enjoy-able part to his work.

“When I’m working on a piece of wood, I ’m only thinking about what I’m doing at that particular mo-ment. When you have an idea in your head and you see that manifest in a physical form, that to me is the most rewarding part about it.”

“What I think an artist’s most valuable asset is, is your own creative integrity and your drive to create. The reason I say that is because each person’s own cre-ative intuition is something that is completely unique to them. So, when you harness that, it gives you the ability to make and create things that no one else can. I think that’s something that shouldn’t be overlooked.”

Riley also elaborates on what many artist find to be a weakness. What many consider a hindrance to their work, Riley derived further inspiration from.

“Self-doubt is something I feel that probably every artist suffers from to some degree. I think that self-doubt can be a useful tool. It can cause you to look at your work with a critical eye to see if something might need to be changed or altered, or if the piece may need to be scrapped altogether. I think there is a point where self-doubt can impede on your creative process. I think that every artist needs to be aware of where that line is and needs to be really careful not to let that happen.”

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PRESERVING HISTORY � e Pikeville - Pike County Hat� eld & McCoy Museum

The Pikeville - Pike County Hatfield & McCoy Museum features Pike County’s biggest collection of Hatfield McCoy ar-tifacts, including original photos and rel-

ics from both families’ collections - but that’s only the beginning. Visitors will also find tools utilized by our ancestors and exhibits highlighting the Native Ameri-can cultures of Central Appalachia, our early industri-al past, the Civil War and The Pikeville Cut-Through Project.

The Pikeville - Pike County Museum had its “soft opening” in April 2015, just in time for Hillbilly Days. The Museum’s Grand Opening is scheduled for Septem-ber 2015 at which time seven additional themed rooms will open, showcasing : local mining history, military history, local politics, local schools and sport, arts and entertainment from around central Appalachia and the area’s medical history.

A continuation of the former Big Sandy Heritage Mu-seum on Hambley Boulevard, The Pikeville - Pike Coun-ty Museum features many artifacts previously found at the former location. Most of the artifacts have been do-

nated or loaned to the Museum by local residents who want to share their passion for local history with others. “Nearly everything you see here comes from local people who are genuinely excited to share their local history, as well as the region’s greater history, with the general pub-lic.” Says Museum Director, Polly Hopkins. “Without generous people like this, there would be nothing to see. We are very grateful for all loans and donations and for the enthusiasm we’ve seen from people who are interest-ed in helping out.”

In a time where Google is the most common means of learning , the Pikeville - Pike County Museum is a place where adults and children alike can treat themselves to a hands-on experience as a means of learning and con-necting with their heritage.

Groups and school visits are accepted. Please contact Polly Hopkins, Pikeville - Pike County Museum Direc-tor for more information or to book your group visit. Phone: (606) 213-4397. Email: [email protected]. For up-to-date information including opening hours and events, check out the Museum’s Face-book page: https://www.facebook.com/pikekymuseum


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The Samuel May House is a living history mu-seum located in Pres-tonsburg , and is on

the National Register of Historic Places. Samuel May (1783-1851,) a state representative, was also was a carpenter, surveyor, contractor, fer-ryman, and justice of the peace. He was the first Floyd county resident to sign a contract involving coal de-velopment, and was responsible for much early progress in the area.

May built this house on his 300 acre farm in 1817, and it has sur-vived to become the oldest stand-ing brick home in the Big Sandy valley. A federal-style home, it was originally larger and surrounded by outbuildings. The restored home ex-hibits many of its original features, including its five fireplaces, original windows and mantles, and antique doors. The furniture, including a spinning wheel, piano and organ, is antique. Some of the flooring and the stairs are the ones installed in 1817.

The home was an eastern Ken-tucky social hub of the day and many “stump” speeches were given from its porches. The Mays were fond of get-togethers such as cotillions and

summer barbecues, hosting promi-nent citizens from the entire state.

Located just a few miles from the Middle Creek National Battlefield, the home played a part in the Civ-il War. Samuel May’s son, Andrew Jackson May, pressed the home into service as a Confederate recruiting station, forming the 5th Kentucky Infantry from the recruits.

The structure eventually fell va-cant and was in danger of collapse. In 1992, Prestonsburg Community College educator Dr. Robert Perry helped organize the Friends of the Samuel May House, which over-sees the care and use of this histor-ic landmark. Each January the May House still hosts the time-honored tradition of “Old Christmas,” serv-ing cider and cookies. The singing of early mountain Christmas carols is accompanied by tours of the home, with the guides dressed in 1860s at-tire.

The Samuel May house is open by appointment and tourists are wel-come. Paranormal investigations may also be arranged. To schedule a tour for an individual or a group, call the Prestonsburg Tourism Office at 606 886 1341, or Debi Beatty-Man-uel at 606 886 0170.

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THE ROADSIDE THEATER Sharing the story of Appalachia

The Roadside Theater started in 1975 as part of Appalshop, a nonprofit cultur-al arts organization that uses education, media, theater and other arts to, among

other things, “document, disseminate, and revitalize the lasting traditions and contemporary creativity of Appalachia.”

At the time, Appalshop was only six years old. It started as a youth job training program funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity— a “War on Pover-ty” program.

The Roadside Theater authored and produced its first play, “Red Fox/Second Hangin’” in 1976. It pre-miered in Whitesburg and off Broadway in New York City, telling the story about the beginnings of the coal and timber industries in Appalachia.

In 1980, Roadside produced and toured its second play, “Pretty Polly,” a musical that eventually expanded into a trilog y about the six generations of an Appala-chian family.

Roadside then moved to the international stage, per-forming the following year in Sweden and Denmark. Later, performances were also held in England, Wales, and the Czech Republic.

From these endeavors, Roadside expands its efforts and began hosting teaching residencies at universities across the country.

In the early 1990s, Roadside partnered with the New Orleans-based Junebug Productions to produce several more plays. From there, Roadside began collaborating locally and nationally to create plays to address issues like domestic violence, cancer and also releases CDs of original music from these plays.

The effort made a significant impact, both locally and nationally.

“Thousand Kites,” a Roadside play that shares stories of prisoners, corrections officers, and their families, launched a national criminal justice campaign proj-ect. In recent years, Thousand Kites partnered with an organization in the Virgin Islands to protest the relo-cation of prisoners there to super-maximum facilities — an effort that helped 125 prisoners return from Vir-ginia to their home islands.

The theater’s latest accomplishment is the creation of a play about Daniel Boone that combines historical reenactments, local history, and outdoor drama.

Roadside performed the play “Betsy !” in New York this year.

The Appalshop Store, available online at http://store.appalshop.org , offers recording of Roadside plays.

For more information, visit http://roadside.org or visit the Roadside Theater on Facebook.

enny Wiley Theatre’s mis-sion is to enhance the quali-ty of life in eastern Kentucky by providing professional

theatre and exceptional education-al opportunities in the performing arts. For 50 years audiences have en-joyed Jenny Wiley Theatre’s staging of classic Broadway musicals fea-turing a live orchestra. Jenny Wiley Theatre ( JWT) has both a new in-door theatre in Pikeville and an am-phitheatre located in the beautiful natural surroundings of Jenny Wi-ley State Resort Park in Prestons-burg. JWT is one of the nation’s leading regional theatres.

A local amateur theatre group staged Jenny Wiley Theatre’s first musical, South Pacific, in 1965, and JWT has since grown to become a professional repertory theatre. The Jenny Wiley Drama Association ( JWDA), formed in 1959, had two goals: first, to preserve mountain culture (for example, by presenting a play based on the story of local historical figure Jenny Wiley), and second, to bring mainstream theatre arts such as musicals to the moun-tains where people could enjoy them. Marvin Music, Barkley Stur-

gill, and Henry P. Scalf, a promi-nent regional historian, led a group of area citizens who were interest-ed in presenting an outdoor drama about the legend of Jenny Wiley’s capture and escape from Ameri-can Indians during the early settle-ment days of eastern Kentucky. A Prestonsburg couple, Chalmer and Kathryn Frazier, were active in the early days of JWDA and were in-strumental in convincing Governor Bert Combs to build and an amphi-theatre in Jenny Wiley State Resort Park. True to its original goals, during the past 50 years, JWT has enriched the local community and drawn in tourists by staging both Broadway-style musicals and re-gional historical dramas, including the stories of Jenny Wiley and the Hatfield-McCoy family feud.

JWDA and the City of Pikeville signed an agreement in 2011 allow-ing the theatre to grow and bring professional theatre to Pikeville. A new 200-seat indoor theatre called the Jenny Wiley Mainstage was con-structed in downtown Pikeville and opened in May 2014. The purpose of this new building is to provide Jenny Wiley Theatre with a perma-

nent indoor space for year-round performances and to expand cul-tural arts offerings in eastern Ken-tucky, while maintaining the long-standing tradition of professional productions at the amphitheatre in Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in the summers.

A year-round season provides an abundance of opportunities for lo-cal children and teens to develop their talents in the dramatic arts through JWT’s Footlights youth theatre program. Through the Footlights year-round productions and summer camps, students learn both how to perform and how to work behind the scenes—abilities that they put to use in performanc-es for the public. Local youth learn skills through theatre, such as pub-lic speaking and teamwork, which will serve them well on any career path. A non-profit organization, Jenny Wiley Theatre plans to con-tinue to enrich the community by producing excellent theatre sourced from both local and nation-wide talent, and by providing perform-ing arts educational outreach that makes a difference for area young people and the public.

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Jenny Wiley TheatreWith over 50 years of continous productions, JWT is East Kentucky’s only professional theatre offering Broadway quality musicals, comedies, children’s theatre and historical dramas.

Make Jenny Wiley Theatre a part of your family’s tradition throughout the year.

Two locations:Jenny Wiley Amphitheatre, Prestonsburg, located within the Jenny Wiley State Resort Park. Open during the summer months offering Broadway style musicals, and historical dramas.

Jenny Wiley Mainstage Theatre, Pikeville, located in the heart of downtown. Open year-round, JWT Mainstage offers comedies, dramas, holiday pro-ductions and special musical and comedy events, It is also home to our Footlights Theatre, our youth company, who perform 4 - 6 times a year a variety of young performer productions and the Footlights Theatre Summer program offers a summer filled with theatre camps for grades one through twelve.

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The Artists Collaborative Theatre has filled the stage with Appalachian talent since it opened its intimate black box theatre in 2008.

ACT was, however, founded outside of those walls, with the traveling Kentucky Cycle theatre, which start-ed highlighting local talent in July 2002. This small troupe, which performed in various venues, went on to establish its home at ACT, nestled in the foothills of Pine Mountain and the Breaks Interstate Park in Elk-horn City.

ACT is open year-round, offering 16 productions of six plays annually as well as free educational program-ming and services. Through the years, it has earned nu-merous accolades, including state, regional and nation-al awards, and many of its actors and actresses found success because of what they learned at ACT.

Sarah Haynes graduated from the University of Ken-tucky with degrees in health science, theatre and psy-

cholog y. She credited ACT and the Pike County Fine Arts Program — the first program of its kind in Ken-tucky — with helping her succeed. She told University of Kentucky officials that she may have never discov-ered her “true potential, talents or unique skill sets” without ACT.

ACT Director Stephanie Richards, who established the Pike County Fine Arts Program through the UK Cooperative Extension Service in 2006, also influ-enced Haynes and other students who came through the doors at ACT.

That dedication continues today, as Richards assist-ed in the development of the Hatfield-McCoy Amphi-theatre in McCarr and opened ACT’s doors to the Ap-palachian Symphony, a group of musicians who teach Appalachian music to others.

For more informaiton, visit http://act4.org or the ACT Facebook page. Tickets may be purchased at the door or by calling 606-754-4228.

ARTISTS COLLABORATIVE THEATRE Growing talent in the mountains


HATFIELD-MCCOY AMPHITHEATER Home to state’s o� cial feud play

Pike County is now home to the state’s offi-cial play on the Hatfield & McCoy Feud.

Sen. Ray S. Jones II of Pikeville passed a resolution in the Kentucky General As-

sembly this year to name “Blood Song : The Story of the Hatfields and the McCoys” by playwright Chel-sea Marcantel as the state’s official play about the de-cades-long feud.

The legislation came about three years after the play debuted at the Hatfield-McCoy Amphitheater in Mc-Carr. Pike County officials worked with state leaders to build the outdoor theater, made possible by land do-nations from local coal mining and land-holding com-panies.

The Hatfield and McCoy Arts Council, Artists Col-laborative Theater in Elkhorn City, and the Universi-ty of Kentucky’s Cooperative Extension Office and its Fine Arts Program in Pike County, commissioned the writing of the play.

Marcantel studied the feud extensively before bring-ing historical characters to life. She used some of the feud’s lesser-known characters to share the story on stage. Visitors learn about the entire history of the feud — from the murder of Asa Harmon McCoy during the Civil War to the hanging of Ellison “Cotton Top” Mounts in 1890.

The amphitheater, located near several feud-related sites, usually hosts weekly performances during the late summer and early fall months. Tickets are reason-ably-priced, and special rates are available for groups.

For details, visit http://act4.org or visit the Pike County Fine Arts Facebook page.

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LITTLE SHEPHERD AMPHITHEATRE Bringing the Civil War to life in Jenkins

In 1906, John Fox Jr. wrote “The Little Shep-herd of Kingdom Come,” and it has since been filmed several times and converted in to nu-merous theatrical productions.

One of those productions is offered near the site of the book’s setting at the Little Shepherd Amphitheatre in Jenkins in Letcher County.

The play is performed in the tranquil mountainous setting of this outdoor theatre from June to September of ever year.

Productions of this play were performed in Letcher County as far back as the 1970s.

It came to Letcher County through the efforts of for-mer librarian, Don Amburgey, who founded The Little Shepherd Arts & Crafts Council and a rustic amphi-theater in Van in the 1970s. Amburgey led the play through a decade of performances in that location, but he lost the venue in 1982.

After the construction of U.S. 23 brought in the pos-sibility of tourists, Amburgey decided to revive it. In 1997, he founded the Cumberland Mountain Arts & Crafts Council and encouraged community members and state and local leaders to support the play.

The council was formed with the goal of promoting “sustainable tourism that respects the heritage, history and culture” of Eastern Kentucky.

His requests were granted and the Letcher County Fiscal Court appropriated $30,000 for the project. Thereafter, T.E.C.O. signed over 15 acres of its prop-

erty near a railroad tunnel to the council.This amphitheater, located above Jenkins High

School, was built on the grounds where the Battle of Pound Gap was fought during the Civil War.

In the play, written by Appalachian playwright Fern Overby Hilton, the main character, Chad Buford, struggles to understand the cruelties of the Civil War and the region’s poverty. Buford is orphaned when his mother dies of cholera and he runs away from his abusive family and befriends another family who helps him get an education. He ultimately enlists as a Union soldier and is soon pitted against family members and neighbors on opposite sides of the battle.

The performances attracts throngs of tourists to Letcher County every year, but it is one of many events held at the amphitheater.

Every August, Civil War reenactors from multiple states camp at the property for the annual Thunder on the Mountain reenactment. One of the reenactment’s most lively characters portrays Gen. John Hunt Mor-gan, a Confederate soldier who famously fought in battles throughout Eastern Kentucky during the Civil War

The council also hosts its Indian Summer Folk Festi-val in October, welcoming arts and craft vendors from throughout the region.

For more information, visit http://littleshepherd-drama.com or call 606-832-1453.

SHOP ‘TILL YOU DROP Shopping in Southeastern Kentucky

Eastern Kentucky is a shopping powerhouse, with thousands of nationally-known chain stores, specialty shops, and small country stores offering everything from the per-

fectly-sized suit to handcrafted, locally-made arts and crafts.

The shopping venues in Floyd, Magoffin, Lawrence, Letcher, Knott, Johnson, Martin, and Pike County at-tract millions of people into these communities, and the economic impact that traffic has to the region is astounding.

Pike County is certainly the region’s largest retail center, offering dozens of stores in the Weddington Plaza, Weddington Square and other locations. Pike County is home to well-known specialty stores like Mickey’s Menagerie (Second St., Pikeville), The Men’s Corner (Weddington Plaza), Page-3 Game Zone (N. Mayo Trail), Sound House Music (Weddington Plaza), Tis the Season (Town Mountain Rd.) and Wide Open Outdoors (Zebulon Highway).

Hobby Lobby, Maurices, Ulta, Marshall’s and several other businesses are in the Pikeville Commons shop-ping complex on Thompson Road. This $44 million economic development project has provided jobs, an apartment complex, and will accommodate additional growth in the future.

In addition to several shopping plazas in Paintsville, Johnson County offers visitors unique shopping expe-riences with antique stores in Staffordsville and Paints-

ville, specialty gift shops, and, among other treasures, a wide variety of arts and crafts offered by the Appala-chian League of Artists, located inside Black Barn Pro-duce, a tourist attraction that takes visitors back to the feel of an old-time country general store.

Hand-made crafts are also available for purchase at the Appalachian Artisan Center in Hindman, which is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Visitors often stop by Yoder’s Bulk Food Store when they visit Hindman to stock up on freshly-made jams, jellies, and kitchen sta-ples that every home needs.

In Lawrence County, Louisa also offers numerous shops to find antiques, gifts, and collectables. The Painted Cow Gallery and the Urban Farmhouse are two popular destinations.

Letcher County is also steeped in local arts and crafts, with venues like the Pine Mountain Craft Co-op on U.S. 119 and the Valley of the Winds Galleries, exhib-iting works of renowned artist Jeff Chapman-crane. The Oven Fork Mercantile, a former grocery store and post office, is also a popular shopping spot.

But the best part about shopping in Eastern Ken-tucky can’t fit in a shopping bag.

Customers are treated like family, service is first-class and the entire shopping experience is devoid of traffic and parking problems. Shop Southeastern Kentucky for retail therapy at its finest.

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TRADITIONALFOODWAYS

Modern Dining/CulinaryExperience in Southeastern Kentucky

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The growing , gathering , raising , hunting , preserving , and preparing of food has tak-en up a large space in the consciousness of Central Appalachians since before the

roads and (hollows) hollers were more than footpaths, creek beds, and cattle trails. In pre-industrialization era southeastern Kentucky, the sourcing and cooking of food was the primary occupation of both men and women. Our people relied upon the sweat of their brow, their own earth covered hands, Mother Nature, and the sureness of their shot for their daily bread. As the nation is becoming more aware of the impact of our eating habits on our health, the environment, and our economy, it is no coincidence that residents of southeastern Kentucky are reviving our traditional foodways, adding modern ideas and schema to create a viable source of income for families and a means to cheaply and efficiently regain the health of our com-munities. In this effort, as gathering around food and table tend to do, community collaboration is being re-newed as people come together to shop, eat, and trade the goods of their neighbors. It is easy to describe what is currently happening in the food culture throughout the region as picturesque and deeply meaningful.

In the Kentucky mountain home of the frontier era there would be found as much variety in foods and rec-ipes as there were homes in which to stay for dinner. It is a common misconception that Appalachian cooking is the same as the cooking of the deep south, however, it must be remembered that the hills of Kentucky were colonized by a great blend of peoples including those of both eastern and western European, African, north Asian, and Native American origins. While communi-ties were built it is true that our early settlers lived in real isolation from the influences of the world outside of the mountains. Using the ingredients they could grow, gather, hunt, and occasionally outsource, the mountain people recreated the recipes of their home-

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and incorporated the food traditions of the Native American peoples.

The typical Appalachian home relied on hunting and the pork they raised for the meat portion of their meals. Chickens were primarily for eggs as cows were for milk. It was a real event if either of these animals were served on the plate. The landscape did not allow for many multi-family gardens, so each home would have their own plot for growing. Seeds were passed down year after year and a portion was kept back for reseeding the next season. This created a large vari-ety of crops that became heirlooms and many are still named for the families that first held the seed in their hands. From a young age Kentucky mountain folks were taught to identify and properly gather the plants that grew naturally throughout the region to be used as food and medicine. Our heritage is a truly natural diet and way of living.

Today, many residents of southeastern Kentucky are experiencing a renewed enthusiasm in the foodways of their ancestors. The pendulum swings back from convenience and a desire to live the modern lifestyle to embracing local food production and sales as a gift given to us by our ancestors. This gift served them well in times both good and bad. Many forward thinking southeastern Kentuckians are seeing this reconnection

as one of the means to create the thriving communi-ties of our future. The Grow Appalachia program has played a tremendous role in encouraging evaluation of our food culture and the re-learning of the tradi-tional ways of individuals, families, and communities producing much of the food they consume. In 2009 eastern Kentucky native Tommy Callahan shared with his friend John Paul DeJoria (owner of John Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron Tequila) his experience in the mountains. The issue of food security was of great concern, and an idea was brought forth. DeJoria then collaborated with Berea College to create a pro-gram which supports families to grow as much of their own food as possible so as to increase access to healthy food options as cheaply as possible. In that way, Grow Appalachia was born and has been achieving its goals, adding many Central Appalachian counties to its list of program participants.

Grow Appalachia supports Kentucky families through providing education, technical and physical assistance, gardening grants, donations to food banks, promoting entrepreneurship and the existence of local farmer’s markets, helping to build and use high tun-nel methods to extend the growing season, assisting in purchasing and raising chickens, and respecting local traditions to preserve them for future generations.

It is a real privilege to have such an amazing program available in our communities. Seeing the time tested modes of bringing fresh and healthy food to our ta-bles being rekindled and a number of regional families using them to supplement or create an income are a pleasure.

In part due to the efforts of Grow Appalachia and the desire of our communities to duplicate the beauty and convenience of the farmer’s market model, southeast-ern Kentucky has seen many farmer’s markets sprout up over the last several years. At the market local grow-ers and producers have the opportunity to share their abundance with the community and increase their in-come and economic diversity. The increased access to fresh, local, and healthy foods has been a driving force in a renaissance of the healthy eating movement in southeastern Kentucky. To the right is a farmer’s market schedule so you can be sure to visit and sample the bounty.

This renewed interest in traditional foodways has created an outgrowth of resources and further edu-cation and networking around the topic of food pro-duction, foraging , and preparation. Within the region are found many wonderful opportunities to take part in events of this type including the Appalachian Food Summit (yearly event), Growing Appalachia Confer-ence at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in Floyd County, Dumplin’s & Dancin’ (yearly event) at Hindman Set-tlement School in Knott County, various seed swaps where heirloom plants and seeds are promoted and ex-changed, workshops through any of the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service offices and other community organizations, and farm to school programs.

Farmer’s Market Schedule:

Letcher County 198 Main St. Whitesburg – Saturdays 9am-1pm

Knott CountyKnott Co. Sportsplex – Mondays 10am-1pm

Knott Co. Extension Office – Fridays 10am-1pm Downtown Hindman – 2nd Saturday

of each month 9am-Noon

Pike CountyPike Co. Extension Office – Saturdays

9am-Noon, and Tuesdays 4:30-7pm

Floyd CountyMunicipal Parking Lot, DowntownPrestonsburg – Saturdays 9am-2pm

Lawrence CountyExtension Office Louisa – Tuesdays,Thursdays, and Saturdays 9am-Noon

Johnson CountyExtension Office Paintsville – Tuesday and Thursday 4-6pm


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All this excitement surrounding gaining access to a variety of food options and preserving and preparation skills coupled with the traditional recipes and kitch-en artistry that has been passed down through genera-tions, creates the best of southeastern Kentucky dining being available at the family table. The most authen-tic Appalachian food experience is unparalleled by any restaurant currently open in the region. If it is this undeniably authentic, traditional experience you seek to find, make a friend of a long time resident and get invited to supper. Another option for sampling the authentic mountain fare is to attend a church revival, homecoming , or special event and have dinner on the grounds where you will find an array of food so vast, it will be hard not to eat enough for an army.

Area restaurants cannot be overlooked as part of the growing impact that food consciousness has had on southeastern Kentucky. Offering drive up, casual, and fine dining , regional restaurants have an eclectic mix of possibilities for satisfying the tastebuds. Through-out the region is offered ethnic cuisine such as Mexi-can, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. Many of the major national chain eateries are now an option for area din-ers. It is, however, imperative to experience our truly local, homegrown, remarkable restaurants.

One of the most exciting of these is The Blue Raven Restaurant & Pub in Pikeville. They coin their offer-ings as “pub style Appalachian cuisine.” With great care in choosing their ingredients, it is common to see representatives of the restaurant frequenting the farm-er’s markets and organizational meetings concerning local food. They source many elements of their menu locally and from Kentucky Proud suppliers, striving to include only the freshest, whole ingredients available. The Blue Raven is nearly as fine as dining gets in the mountains with a classy, but regionally specific atmo-sphere and a menu that showcases Kentucky and Appa-lachian staples. Their signature twist brings the food they serve out of the home kitchen and into epicurean.

Another local favorite is one of the best BBQ joints you will find anywhere, Pig in a Poke, with locations in Prestonsburg and Pikeville. Featuring real pit BBQ smoked over hickory wood, Pig in a Poke has been in business since 2007. They pride themselves on prepar-ing their food in house using their distinct family rec-ipes, bringing an authentic experience to local BBQ. Their restaurants are family friendly with a relaxing home-like atmosphere that features unique qualities such as a two-story dining space, spiral staircases, decks overlooking the river, and street facing balconies.


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Holly Hills Mall Restaurant in Hindman can be equated to eating in Mamaw’s kitchen without being responsible for the mess. The restaurant is situated within the Holly Hills Mini Mall, a distinctive area shopping attraction. With a menu that features our customary Appalachian meal – soupbeans, cornbread, pork tenderloin, and fried taters – that can’t be missed,

it is easy to see how Mall Restaurant has been a mem-ber of the Knott County community for many years. Alongside the signature mountain meal, you will find a large variety of comfort foods from vegetable beef soup, Stromboli, pepperbelle salad, steaks, stir fry, and seafood plate. The dessert menu is one of the finest with handmade pies, cakes, cupcakes, and candies. Eating at Holly Hills Mall Restaurant is definitely like being among friends.

In a place that was once so very isolated, it is heart-ening to know and witness that our journey with food is far from complete. The renewing of our traditional means of filling our tables, locally owned and thriving restaurants, and increasing availability of ethnic cui-sines brings richness to what is to be had here. The most exhilarating aspect of our food scene is that there is plenty of room for growth and exploration. Because of this, and the inspiration given by those who are trailblazing , it is a time of positive change. It could be that the traditions in our foodways and the willing-ness of residents to dream big and step into food entre-preneurship will fuel a transition into a local economy that accentuates our matchless culture and talents to not only locals, but visitors from the world over.

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People flock to eastern Kentucky commu-nities throughout the spring and summer months because they love chrome and leath-er.

With several car clubs hosting monthly events, local car enthusiasts can enjoy a car show or drag race nearly every week of the month in Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Knott, Letcher, Martin, Magoffin, and Pike counties. Clubs in these counties also host numerous car cruises, fundraising car shows, races, and other activities for car enthusiasts throughout the year.

SOUTH WILLIAMSON

The Mingo-Pike Car Club hosts monthly car cruise-in events at the Southside Mall in South Williamson on the first Saturday of every month through Oct. 3. The club hosted its first car and truck show at the mall on Aug. 15, offering various prizes to winners. Members hope to make it an annual event.

For details, call Mingo-Pike Car Club member Pea-nut Bowen at 606-353-1381 or Butch Leedy at 606-237-8308 or visit the club’s Facebook page.

JENKINS

The Jenkins Cruise-in brings car enthusiasts together in the Jenkins City Park in Letcher County on the first Saturday of every month from May through October.

Activities begin at approximately 4 p.m. and club members are actively involved in participating in and promoting other local car shows.

For details, call 606-855-7827 or 606-821-8401 or visit the Jenkins Cruise-in Facebook page.

PIKEVILLE

Pikeville pulls out all of the stops for Muscle on Main, which features two days of activities on the sec-ond weekend of every month from May through Oc-tober.

Muscle on Main, hosted by the city of Pikeville, the Good Ole Boys Car Club, and other sponsors, attracts visitors from throughout the U.S. It begins with a block party at approximately 7 p.m. on the second Friday in the Riverfill Arena on Main Street, featuring music, food, car shows and/or cruise-in events, and burnout competitions.

Every second Saturday, the Muscle on Main Cruise-in is held from noon to 5 p.m. on Main Street. Activ-ities include Hot Wheels drag racing for kids, remote control racing , vendors and other events. The Street Light Challenge begins at approximately 5 p.m. in the Riverfill Arena. Drivers of all makes and models are invited to participate.

Admission to all events are free, but registration fees are required for drag racing. Seating is available for up

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to 2,500 people in the arena. Drivers may register to race at http://visitpikeville.

com. For details, call the city’s Executive Director of Tourism Larry McGaughy at 606-616-2824.

PAINTSVILLE

It’s easy to find people who love cars in Johnson County. The East Kentucky Gearheads club hosts “Paintsville Cruiz’n” events on Main St., Paintsville, on every third Saturday of the month, from April through September.

Each event is themed, highlighting different types of cars each month. A recent event highlighted Corvettes and another event, themed “Primer Alley,” will feature “rat rods,” unfinished projects, and a swap meet for vis-itors.

This club donates funds to numerous charities and hosts events to help nonprofit groups. The group in-vites special needs children to its annual Ride with a Pal cruise-in in Archer Park in Prestonsburg and par-ticipates in the annual Ronald McDonald Charity Cruise-in in Louisa. It also hosts a Snowball Cruise from Paintsville to Louisa every January.

For details, visit the group’s Facebook page.

ELKHORN CITY

The Elkhorn City Cruizer Car Club hosts car shows and cruise-in events in Elkhorn City on the third Sat-urday of every month.

For details, visit the group’s Facebook page.

HAGER HILL

The Paintsville-Prestonsburg Combs Field Airport kicked off its drag racing season in May, and the fun continues through September.

The Combs Airport Armdrop Drags attract huge audiences and many participants. Admission is $5 per person and free to children age 12 and under. Drivers may race for $25.

For details, visit the Combs Airport Armdrop Drags Facebook page.

WHITESBURG

Hundreds of mini-trucks and thousands of people flock to 226 Medical Plaza Lane in Whitesburg for Heritage 2K.

The three-day car show, highlighted annually in na-tional magazines, is packed with entertainment, con-tests and events. Admission is free for spectators and


primitive camping is also available free of charge.The fun begins with a police-led “Rail N Cruise” and

activities continue throughout the weekend. It even features a “Truck Limbo” competition. Drivers are per-mitted to “drag anywhere you want all over town.”

Every year, organizers give away a custom vehicle at this show. One lucky raffle drawing winner will drive away in a decked-out truck that will be given away.

For details, visit the Heritage 2K on Facebook or call 865-745-9680.

LOUISA

Wendy’s Restaurant in Louisa hosts the Country Mu-sic Highway Cruise-in Car Show every June. Another cruise-in is held on Independence Day.

For details about the event in June, call 606-638-0043. For details about the July event, call 606-638-4646.

SALYERSVILLE

The car club scene is alive and well in Magoffin Coun-ty, where the Licking River Kruizers hosts monthly cruise-in events in downtown Salyersville.

For details and updates about these shows, visit the club’s Facebook page.

RACE VENUES

Eastern Kentucky is also home to some very popular dirt track racing venues.

They include the 201 Speedway in Sitka in Johnson County, the Appalachian Speedway & MX Park in Tomahawk in Martin County, and, in Letcher County, the Lucky 7 Speedway, located at 6290 Hwy. 7 North in Whitesburg and the Mountaineer Kartway in Isom.

Officials at each of these venues regularly update their Facebook pages.

THE GOOD OLE’ BOYS RODS& CRUISERS CAR CLUB

This car club has been going strong for a number of years, with members regularly participating in local car shows, cruise-in events and other activities. It hosts its annual car show during Hillbilly Days to raise funds for the Shriners.

This club sponsors Muscle on Main in Pikeville and sponsors and participates in car shows throughout the region.

For details, call 606-477-8073 or visit the club’s Facebook page.

APPALACHIAN STREET RODS

Floyd County residents Rose and Neil Lester start-ed Appalachian Street Rods this year with the hope of raising enough funds to host a “blowout” celebration for underprivileged and special needs children in the region.

The couple has helped organize Muscle on Main events in Pikeville for years.

For details, email [email protected], visit the group’s Facebook page, or call 606-226-5616.

Note: Car shows and cruise-in events may be changed at some locations due to inclement weather. Please refer to each group’s Face-book page or website for regularly updated information.

THE PLACE FOR ADVENTURE

Nestled in the foothills of Appalachia, Eastern Kentucky has a vast expanse of natural beauty. Its hillsides are rich in native trees, plants, and wildlife, and

Eastern Kentucky communities are full opportuni-ties for outdoor adventures. From hiking along scenic mountain peaks and among the trees in old growth for-ests, to riding ATVs or horses, to zip lining or white water rafting — if it’s outdoors and adventurous, it’s Eastern Kentucky.

Here are just a few of the local outdoor adventures available:

FLOYD COUNTY

Jenny Wiley State Resort Park & Dewey Lake: The Kentucky Department of Parks opened this park in 1954. Today, it’s still one of Floyd County’s premiere attractions, nestled among the picturesque mountainscape of Eastern Kentucky alongside the 1,150-acre Dewey Lake. It has lodge rooms, cottages, a dining area, a large convention center, a golf course, a campground, and the famous Jenny Wiley Theatre’s amphitheater. The park’s recreation department hosts numerous activities and events throughout the year. Visitors may rent pontoon boats or canoes; fish; enjoy

free line dancing at the campground; take an elk tour or a guided canoe trip; take leisurely or strenuous hikes or mountain bike rides on up to 60 miles of recreation-al trails; visit the nature center, or picnic at the Dew-ey Dam Recreational Area. For details, visit the park’s Facebook page.

German Bridge Campground: Located on Rt. 194 along the tail waters of the Dewey Lake, this site of-fers primitive and modern camping , fishing , canoeing , a horse barn, and miles of scenic trails. The Big Sandy Trail Riders Club hosts several trail rides at German Bridge each year. For details, visit http://bstrc.org or call 606-874-1150.

Prestonsburg Equine Center: This facility, located on StoneCrest, regularly hosts horse shows. It offers a lighted show ring , bleacher seating , a warm-up ring , easily-accessible bathrooms, and a concessions area, as well as a large stables area. For details, visit the center’s Facebook page or call 606-886-6162.

The Prestonsburg Sportspark: Located near the equine center at StoneCrest, this park offers state-of-the-art athletic fields for soccer, baseball, softball, and little league events. For details, call 606-886-6390.

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Archer Park: Complete with a skating rink, picnic areas, tennis courts, basketball courts, a swim-ming pool, a veteran’s memorial, and other amenities, Archer Park attracts thousands of visitors to Prestonsburg every year. For details, call 606-886-6390.

Thunder Ridge Racing and Entertainment Complex: East-ern Kentucky residents and visitors enjoy watching live harness racing at this facility, located on Rt. 3 in Prestonsburg. For details, call 606-886-7223 or visit Thunder Ridge Harness on Facebook.

StoneCrest Golf Course: Situ-ated on 700 acres, StoneCrest’s 18-hole course offers some of the finest views in Prestonsburg , and its golf course is considered to be one of the best in Kentucky. It features a pro shop, club repairs, practice green, driving range, clubhouse, and

lounge. For details, visit the course’s Facebook page.

Paul Hunt Thompson Golf Course: This nine-hole golf course, which opened in Allen in 1929, is Floyd County’s oldest, offer-ing many amenities. It is a favorite course for many locals, who have played golf there for years. For de-tails, call 606-874-2837.

Jenny Wiley Executive Golf Course: This nine-hole course, lo-cated at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park, is open daily. It’s operated by the StoneCrest Golf Course. For details, call 606-889-1966.

Other parks: There are numer-ous other community parks in Floyd County, including the Elk Run Park, offering numerous hiking and picnic opportunities in McDowell, the Stumbo Park in Allen, the Min-nie Park in Minnie, and others.

JOHNSON COUNTY

Paintsville Lake State Park: Located in Staffordville, this park offers 1,140 acres for boating , ski-ing , fishing , camping , picnic shel-ters, and a full-service marine that includes a restaurant and catering service. For details, call 606-297-8488.

Kiwanis Walking Trail: Located near the Mountain Homeplace in Paintsville, this 1.6-mile trail offers scenic views of Paintsville Lake. It’s a favorite trail for many locals. For details, call 606-297-6312.

Paintsville Golf & Country Club: The clubhouse at this 18-hole golf course was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, but the golf course opened 10 years prior. It features rolling fairways, two lakes, and a swinging bridge. For details, call 606-789-4234.

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River Excursion: The grave of pioneer Jenny Wi-ley is located in River on Rt. 3224 in Johnson County. The path to the gravesite is blacktopped and parking is available at the River Fire Department. River is also the birthplace of musician Hylo Brown and it’s where travelers will find the Forest and Maxine Preston Me-morial pedestrian bridge.

Dawkins Line Rail Trail: This 18-mile walking , biking , and horse-riding trail spans from Hager Hill to Royalton in Magoffin County. It features 24 trestles and the famed Gun Creek Tunnel. For bike rentals, call 606-886-8604.

KNOTT COUNTY

Carr Creek State Park and Lake: This 29-acre park and 710-acre lake is a prime location for fishing , swimming , camping , or enjoying a picnic with family and friends. For details, call 606-642-4050.

Mine Made Paradise Park: This facility in Leburn, complete with an ATV Safety and Training Center, of-fers access to more than 100 miles of trails for motor-cycles, ATVs, and horse rides. Annual events are held here throughout the year, attracting thousands of peo-ple from all over the country. For details, visit http://knottcountyadventure.com.

Elk Tour: Knott County prides itself as the “Elk Capital of the East,” and there’s no better place to find them. Elk tours are offered in the county by the Saddle Up Elk Tours (606-642-3656), Jenny Wiley State Re-sort Park (606-889-1790), and Buckhorn State Resort Park (606-398-7510).

Skatepark and swimming pool: Visitors can drop off a halfpipe at this facility, which is open seven days a week in Hindman, and then refresh with a dip in the pool.

Knott County Sportsplex: Built on previous-ly-mined land, this 66,000 sq. ft. facility offers five basketball courts, and eight-lane bowling alley, arcade, baseball batting cages and outdoor fields, a fitness room, indoor walking track, a conference room, sports museum, sports shop and concession areas. For details, call 606-785-5932.

LAWRENCE COUNTY

Yatesville Lake and Lawrence County Park: Lo-cated on a 2,300-acre reservoir, Yatesville Lake offers a little something for everyone. The park offers primi-tive and modern camping , a conference center, private cabins, picnic shelters, a music pavilion, basketball courts, an amphitheater, a full service marina, and a beach area at the lake. For details, call 606-673-1166.

Eagle Ridge Golf Course: This top-rated, 18-hole golf course, located at Yatesville Lake, is one of East-ern Kentucky’s best courses, offering scenic views and plenty of amenities. For details, call 606-673-4300.

Louisa Pool Complex: This facility, operated by the city of Louisa, offers a municipal pool, picnic shelters, and a basketball court. For details, call 606-638-4050.

LETCHER COUNTY

Fish Pond Lake: Located on 895 acres at Little Lau-rel Park at Payne Gap, Fishpond Lake offers plenty of fishing , access to the Roger Breeding ATV trailhead,


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an RV park, primitive camping , and boating. It’s the perfect place to spend the day with family and friends.

Pine Mountain State Scenic Trail: This unique linear state park, with trail heads accessible in several counties, spans 120 miles from the Breaks Interstate Park in Pike County’s Elkhorn City to the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park. The Highlands portion of the trail stretches 14 miles from U.S. 119 in Letcher County to U.S. 23. Portions of this trail follows the ridge of Pine Mountain and leads hikers to mountain treasures, like the famous Eagle Arch, Eagles Nest and Chained Rock. Work is being done to connect this trail to the Great Eastern Trail, which spans through several states. For details on all the attractions along this trail, visit http://pinemountaintrail.com.

Little Shepherd Trail: Made famous by the book, “Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come” by John Fox Jr., this trail runs 17 miles from the top of Pine Moun-tain and follows the mountain ridge to the Harlan County line. It’s accessible from U.S. 119 at the top of Pine Mountain — where the Highlands Portion of the Pine Mountain Trail and the 4,849-acre Hensley-Pine Mountain Wildlife Management Area is also acces-sible. Vehicles are permitted on the Little Shepherd Trail.

Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve: This 2,639-acre nature preserve, located on Hwy. 932, of-fers a mile-long hike through the Bad Branch Gorge. This area provides access to the Pike Mountain Trail, and the short one-mile hike along the gorge will take visitors to Bad Branch Falls, a 60-foot waterfall on Pine Mountain. A seven-mile hike in this area takes visitors to High Rock, a huge sandstone located at the top of the mountain with an elevation of 3,000 feet.

Pound Gap: People travel from all over the U.S. to

view Letcher County’s Pound Gap cut through, locat-ed south of Jenkins on the Ky/Va. border. This area was the first designated “Distinguished Geologic Site” in Kentucky. A fault bisects the mountain and the opening made by weather and erosion made it easier for early pioneers to travel through.

Lilley Cornett Woods: A registered national land-mark, the Lilley Cornett Woods is the largest old growth forest in this part of Kentucky. Eastern Ken-tucky University uses this 554-acre forest as a research station and living natural history museum. Guided tours are available. For details, call 606-633-5828.

Pioneer Horse Trail: This trail follows the ridge of Pine Mountain between Whitesburg and Cumber-land, spanning 25 miles. Parking is available near the Rt. 1679 junction on U.S. 119. For details on stable services, call 606-848-2766 or 606-233-3674.

Roger Breeding ATV Trail: Located at Fishpond Lake in Payne Gap, this trail system offers 25 miles for riding , and camping is also available in the area. For details, call Derek Barto at 606-633-2129.

Raven Rock Golf Course: One of the region’s most challenging golf courses, Raven Rock offers an elevat-ed, 18-hole course with mountaintop views. It has a clubhouse, driving range, and a full service restaurant and banquet facility. For details, call 606-832-2955.

Ernest Cook Memorial Park: Located just off Hwy. 15 in Whitesburg , this park offers softball fields and space for little league baseball and T-ball.

Riverside Park: Located just of U.S. 23 in Whites-burg , Riverside Park is a favorite local gathering place for Letcher County residents. Several events and fes-tivals are held there throughout the year. It features a walking track, playground, a stage, picnic shelters, and


other amenities. Visitors have easy access to the river at this park. For details, call Derek Barto at 606-633-2129.

Letcher County Recreational Center: Letcher County officials invested in the community when they built this 44,000 sq. ft. facility in Whitesburg. It of-fers a three-story climbing wall, six-lane bowling alley, multi-purpose g ymnasium, playground, party rooms, arcades, concession stands, table tennis, simulators for hunting and golf, an indoor walking track and classes for Zumba, g ymnastics and step aerobics. For details, call 606-633-7027.

MAGOFFIN COUNTY

Ramey Memorial Park: Located in Salyersville, this park offers a walking track, picnic shelters, a play-ground, tennis courts, basketball courts, and a swim-ming pool. This park is connected to the Magoffin County Historical Society’s Pioneer Village, a group of authentic log homes filled with antiques and Civil War memorabilia.

Dawkins Line Rail Trail: This 18-mile walking , biking , and horse-riding trail spans from Hager Hill to Royalton in Magoffin County. It features 24 trestles and the famed Gun Creek Tunnel. For bike rentals, call 606-886-8604.

MARTIN COUNTY

Martin County Lake & Reservoir: Also known as the Crum Reservoir, this lake is on Hwy. 908, about two miles outside of Inez. It’s a water supply reservoir for the city, so swimming is not permitted. An unpaved launching ramp is available.

Milo Lake: Located on Hwy. 1884, this lake offers fishing for bass, bluegill, crappie, sunfish and channel catfish. Swimming is not permitted.

Inez River Walking Trail: Located just off Hwy. 908 in downtown Inez, this trail spans under two bridges. A shelter is available on this trail. For details, call 606-298-2800.

Promise Trail: This unique, one-mile trail, locat-ed off of Hwy. 908 in Inez, offers a small church-style gazebo and Bible verses decorating the trail. Visitors may park at the Roy F. Collier Community Center and walk up the hill to access the trail. For details, call 606-298-2800.

Warfield Walking Trail: Located just off of Hwy. 2033, this 1.3-mile trail is located at the Warfield Riverfront Park, providing scenic views of the city’s historic railroad bridge. Boat ramp access and picnic tables are available along this trail. For details, call 606-298-2800.

Pigeon Roost: This park offers a community center, an outdoor stage and shelter in Martin County. For details, call 606-298-2800.

Kingfisher Branch Trail: As Martin County’s new-est walking trail, this one-mile loop overlaps the Prom-ise Trail. The challenging hike offers scenic views of the area, and it gives hikers a glimpse of a small water-fall. Log cabins are being added to the top of the trail.

Elk Trail and Viewing Stations: Fencing and in-terpretive signs have been placed near the Cloud Nine Restaurant at the Big Sandy Region Airport in Martin County to give people the opportunity to see elk that often visit the area.

Paradise Mountain Pay Lake: Open April to Oc-tober. For details, call 606-298-3900.

Ray Field Water Park: Located on KY 40. For de-tails, call 606-298-2800.

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PIKE COUNTY

Fishtrap Lake State Park: Spanning 1,131 acres, Fishtrap Lake features the highest dam in Eastern Ken-tucky. The park offers scenic views, boating , skiing , hiking , fishing , camping , horseback riding , and other adventures. Archaeologists discovered 33 prehistoric Native American sites at Fishtrap. More than 65,000 artifacts were uncovered, and some of them are on dis-play in Pikeville. For details, call 606-437-7496.

Pike County Horse Trail: This trail system, for-merly known as the South Lake Horse Trail System at Lick Creek, offers a campground and picnic area. An-nual rides are held on this non-motorized trail system.

Breaks Interstate Park: The 4,600-acre joint state park, created between Kentucky and Virginia in 1954, offers lake-side cabins, lodge rooms, cottages, camping sites, a conference center, an amphitheater, 25 miles of hiking trails, 12 miles of biking trails, a visitor’s center, the Splash in the Park waterpark, and, among many oth-er amenities, the Rhododendron Restaurant. Known as the “Grand Canyon of the South,” the Breaks is one of only two interstate parks in America, and it was named because of the break in Pine Mountain, which was cre-ated by the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River. Park officials host numerous events throughout the year, in-cluding three-day music events, guided hiking tours, heritage demonstrations, and other activities. For de-tails, visit http://breakspark.com.

Russell Fork River: A designated Kentucky Blue Water Trail, the Russell Fork is what Kentucky Afield Magazine characterized as “one mean, determined stream.” It stretches 16 miles from Haysi, Virginia, to Elkhorn City and offers majestic views of rock forma-tions through Pine Mountain. The river carved a can-yon through the mountain that is over file miles long and 1,600 feet deep — the largest canyon east of the Mississippi River. The river, lined with huge boulders,

offers some of the most challenging whitewater rap-ids in the southeastern part of the country. The U.S.A. Wildwater Team Trials have been held on this river sev-eral times, bringing kayakers from all over the world to the Breaks Park and Elkhorn City. Whitewater events, including the well-known “Lord of the Fork” race, are held on the Russell Fork every week in October. For details on the river flow, visit http://russellfork.info.

Pine Mountain State Scenic Trail: This unique linear state park links Pike County with Letcher County along what’s called the Birch Knob Section of the 120-mile Pine Mountain Trail. It spans about 28 miles through the mountain, offering scenic views and shelter areas from Pike County to Letcher County. It’s accessible from Carson Island in Elkhorn City. Work is being done to connect this trail to the Great Eastern Trail, which spans through several states. For details on all the attractions along this trail, visit http://pine-mountaintrail.com.

TransAmerica Bike Trail: Elkhorn City is home to part of the Trans American Bike Trail, a 41,399-mile route that begins in Oregon on the Pacific coast and travels through Elkhorn City and into Virginia, where it meets the Atlantic coast. Hundreds of people from all over the country travel through Elkhorn City on this route, Bicycle Route 76. There are 700 miles of this bike trail in Kentucky.

Pikeville-Cut Thru: Leaders in the city of Pikev-ille have created a scenic overlook at Bob Amos Park for this engineering marvel, dubbed “the eighth won-der of the world” by the New York Times when it was constructed in the 1970s and 1980s. Created to ease flooding issues in the city, this project required the re-moval of 18 million cubic yards of rock from Peach Orchard Mountain. That debris was used as fill, cre-ating 400 acres of developable land. The project also created a channel through which the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River flows. The overlook area features nu-

merous picnic shelters and other amenities for visitors. For details, visit http://visitpikeville.com.

Bob Amos Horse Trail: Spanning more than two miles on the mountain at Bob Amos, this scenic trail is strategically located near Dreamz Stables, which offers boarding services, guided trail rides, pony rides, and other services. The city of Pikeville is in the process of constructing a horse show ring near the Dog Park at Bob Amos to extend services to horse enthusiasts in the area. For details, visit http://visitpikeville.com or Dreamz Stables on Facebook.

Hatfield-McCoy River Trails: Visitors can enjoy kayaking , canoeing and tubing on guided and unguid-ed routes of the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River right in the heart of Pikeville. Hatfield-McCoy River Trails offers kayak, canoe and tube rentals, and this section of river is family-friendly. Shuttle services are available at Thompson Road River Access, behind Tex-as Roadhouse. For details, visit http://visitpikeville.com.

White Lightning Zip Line: The city of Pikeville added its newest adventure, the White Lightning Zip Line, at Bob Amos Park during Hillbilly Days, 2015. On this tour, adventure-seekers sail through eight zip lines that zig-zag down the side of the mountain at Bob Amos. Safety equipment is provided and some age and weigh restrictions apply. For details, visit http://visit-pikeville.com.

Other Bob Amos attractions: In addition to horse trails, zip lining and other activities, Bob Amos Park is home to an RV Park and the Pikeville Area YMCA, which operates a paintball facility and numerous in-door exercise rooms and programs, ball courts, and other amenities. Visitors may also enjoy the Randy Jones Memorial Playground, an all-accessible play-ground that was specially built for children with all types of physical challenges. Bob Amos also offers ten-

nis courts, soccer fields, walking trails and tracks, a dog park, and other attractions. For details, visit http://visitpikeville.com.

Grants Branch Park: This man-made lake in Stone features more than 11 acres of water for fishing and boating , shelters, a cabin, a nature trail, and a hand-icapped-accessible fishing pier. For details, call 606-237-5100.

Hatfield McCoy Geotrail: Geocachers can enjoy a scenic adventure that offers hundreds of caches in several locations, stretching from historic downtown areas affiliated with the Hatfield-McCoy Feud to wil-derness areas. The Big Sandy Area Geocachers are among the throngs of GPS-wielding treasure hunters who regularly enjoy this geotrail, which also stretches through neighboring Mingo County, W.Va. A geotrail event is held during Labor Day weekend, and there’s also an ATV Geotrail nearby. For details, visit http://tourpikecounty.com or http://hatfieldmccoygeotrail.com.

Elk Run Golf Course: This 18-hole public golf course, recently named in honor of founder Jack Sykes, offers scenic views, a pro shop and snack bar, as well as a practice green on Lower John’s Creek Rd. in Pikev-ille. For details, call 606-437-0339.

Green Meadow County Club: Located on North Mayo Trail, just off U.S. 23 in Pikeville, this private country club offers a Par 70 Golf Course, swimming pool and full service dining and catering. For details, visit the club’s Facebook page.

The list of outdoor adventures in Eastern Kentucky is quite long , and it’s getting longer, with plans under-way to add even more attractions in the months and years to come. Martin County, for example, is develop-ing a plan that would create ATV, biking , hiking , and horse-riding trails, among other activities.


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If your idea of a great time is grabbing a rod and reel and hitting the lake or river in your free time, then look no further than Southeast Kentucky. Southeast Kentucky is home to nu-

merous lakes, ponds, and rivers that contain numerous species of game fish. Whether you’re chasing after bass, catfish, trout, walleye, or panfish, Southeast Kentucky has angling opportunities for you.

LARGEMOUTH BASS

With lakes such as Fishtrap, Dewey, Paintsville, Carr Fork, Fishpond, and Yatesville all located within the region, Largemouth Bass anglers have no shortage of locations to pursue ole’ bigmouth. There are also a number of local lakes and ponds full of largemouth open to the public dotted throughout Southeast Kentucky.

If fishing from a bass boat is your choice, the major reservoirs in the area will provide miles and miles of water to ply while in search of largemouth.

Fishtrap Lake in Pike County and Yatesville Lake in Lawrence County host the best population of large-mouth bass, but other area lakes shouldn’t be over-looked. Largemouth bass in excess of 8lbs have been caught in Fishtrap and Yatesville Lakes, and numerous

5-6 pound plus fish can be caught at any of the above mentioned lakes.

If fishing from a kayak, canoe, or small johnboat, Southeast Kentucky has plenty of small lakes and ponds to fulfill your needs.

Fishpond Lake in Letcher County is a beautiful small-er lake that offers excellent fishing for largemouth bass of up to 10 pounds. The lake is regularly stocked with rainbow trout as well, giving the largemouth a high protein diet enabling them to grow larger. Be cautious and stealthy, the water at Fishpond is extremely clear, making it easy to spook largemouth during daylight hours. Your odds will be greatly increased of catching a bruiser largemouth by fishing low-light hours and at dark at Fishpond Lake.

There are also other smaller lakes that offer great largemouth action. Grants Branch located at Stone in Pike County, The Pikeville City Lake in Pikeville, The Jenkins City Lake in Jenkins, and the Laurel Lake at the Breaks Interstate Park all offer a chance to chase big largemouth from a kayak, canoe, or small jonboat. These are just a few of the many small bodies of water that are available to paddle and fish in Southeastern Kentucky.

APPALACHIAN ANGLINGFishing Opportunities in Southeastern Kentucky


SMALLMOUTH BASS

If you love to chase after ole’ bronzeback, Southeast Kentucky is a smallmouth heaven. All you need to fish for smallmouth here are an old pair of sneakers, a pair of swimming trunks, a rod and reel and hit one of the many smallmouth streams that are found in the region.

The Levisa Fork, Russell Fork, Tug Fork, and North Fork of the Kentucky rivers are all located within the region and boast an excellent native population of smallmouth bass. These rivers, in addition to numer-ous other small creeks and streams, make smallmouth fishing very accessible.

The Levisa and Tug Forks of the Big Sandy both begin in Pike County and meander their way north and meet in Louisa to form the Big Sandy. Smallmouth fishing is often better in the upper stretches of these rivers, but there are isolated sections of smallmouth all the way to Louisa. Both rivers can be easily floated in either a kayak or canoe and wading opportunities are plentiful. The City of Pikeville offers kayak rentals and a shuttle service throughout the summer season along an 8 ½ mile stretch of the Levisa Fork. For more information, visit www.visitpikeville.com

The Russell Fork River in Pike County also offers

great smallmouth action. The river runs from the KY/VA line near the Breaks Interstate Park to the Millard community where it joins with the Levisa Fork. Unlike the Levisa and Tug Forks, the Russell Fork (especially in its upper reaches) is an unforgiving river. If you float any above Elkhorn City, be prepared for Class 3+ rap-ids and very swift currents. Those floating or wading should wear a life vest as there are many steep drop offs and a strong undertow current in this river. The river becomes gentler the further downstream it flows, but caution should still be taken. Also recommended are a sturdy pair of wading boots. The bottom of the riv-er is characterized by large and slippery boulders that can easily sprain or trap an ankle. With the proper pre-cautions, the Russell Fork offers plenty of whitewater smallmouth action.

The North Fork of the Kentucky River in Letcher County offers 15 miles of wading and floating oppor-tunities for smallmouth. In low summer flows, the North Fork can be difficult to float as it is a smaller stream than the ones mentioned above.

For more information about smallmouth streams, visit http://f w.ky.gov/Fish/Pages/Kentuckys-Small-mouth-Streams.aspx

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TROUT

If grabbing a fly rod and presenting a small fly to a rising trout is your game, Southeast Kentucky has quite a few options for you.

The tailwaters of most area lakes are all stocked at different times of the year with rainbow trout, with the Paintsville Lake tailwater having brown trout as well. Fishtrap, Dewey, Yatesville, and Carr Fork lake tailwa-ters are all stocked throughout the cooler parts of the year and offer an angler an excellent chance of catching good numbers of rainbows.

There are also many streams and rivers stocked by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife through-out the area.

The Right and Left Fork of Beaver Creek in Floyd County are stocked with rainbow trout and offer a few miles of wading and fishing. It’s best to fish these creeks fall through spring if you want to catch of good number of rainbows.

The Russell Fork River in Pike County is regularly stocked with rainbows and carries a good number of hold over fish that can grow up to 20”. In its upper reaches, even brown trout can be caught near the KY/VA border.

Paint Creek in Johnson County offers over 3 miles of both rainbow and brown trout fishing. Beginning at the Paintsville Lake spillway and going downstream, larger trout, especially some big brown trout, can be caught along this stretch.

Letcher County is home to one of the very few native brook trout fisheries in Kentucky. The headwaters of the Poor Fork of the Cumberland River located at the base of Pine Mountain offer 3 miles of water contain-ing native brook trout. This area is not to be mistaken with Bad Branch Creek, which holds brook trout but is off-limits to fishing. Please handle these fish with extra care and be sure to release them after you catch them.

For more information on trout streams in East-ern Kentucky, visit http://f w.ky.gov/Fish/Docu-ments/2015troutstreamsprogram.pdf

For the trout stocking schedule for Kentucky, visit http ://f w.ky.gov/Fish/Pages/Monthly-Trout-Stock-ing.aspx Credit: Ronnie Hilton


The mountains... The emotions that stir in me at the thought of our little piece of Appa-lachia is hard to put into words. Have you ever stood atop a ridge, the warm updrafts

blowing up the hill into your face? The sounds and smells of the holler wafting up on the wind. The sweet sassa-fras, wildflowers and a million other smells blend into a cacophony of pure perfection. The dirt even has a smell of its own, it smells like home. The fog fills the valley, giving the appearance of a mountain lake. Birds chirp and springs roll down the hills, forming branches that even-tually run into the creeks that give life to the valleys. It’s amazing, beautiful and wild.

Southeast Kentucky is a sportsmans paradise. Our deer herd is healthy, with more than a few trophy bucks roam-ing the hills and hollers. We have an early season (the first full weekend in September) which affords hunters a shot at a buck in velvet. Kentucky is very generous with tags, a hunter can kill up to 4 deer a season. Hunters get 1 buck and 3 does or all does. That’ll fill the freezer for the win-ter ahead. Hunters of all types have opportunity with all of the different seasons. We have archery, crossbow, muz-zleloader and rifle specific season. The hardwood timber gives the treestand hunter an upper hand on old mossy horns. Many mast producing species are in our hills, giv-ing the herd a natural food source.

In early October, the bugles of bull elk can be heard echoing through the hollers. The elk herd of East Ken-tucky was hunted to extinction in the 1850’s, but due to a joint effort of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Shikar Safari Club, we have the largest herd east of the Mississippi. From 1997 to 2002, Elk were captured in the

West and transported to our mountain home. The esti-mated numbers of the herd are upwards of 10,000. It’s an awe inspiring experience to see one of these majestic beasts in the wild. If you’re one of the lucky ones and get drawn for a tag in the elk lottery, you are in for a treat!

The eastern wild turkey also calls our hills home. The excitement of calling in a big gobbler and watching him spit and strut is incomparable. The turkey here are nu-merous. Hunters get two seasons to go after old long-beard. A spring season and a fall season. Hunters may use shotguns or archery equipment during either season.

Small game hunting in Southeast Kentucky is amazing. Squirrel and rabbit hunting is great. Anyone who has ever walked through our hills can attest to the booming squir-rel population. There is both a spring and fall squirrel season.

The reclaimed strip mines offer many great oppor-tunties for the rabbit hunter. Rabbit populations are good, despite the upswing in the coyote population.

Coyote hunting is a great way to beat the out of sea-son blues. ‘Yotes may be taken year around, with no limit.There is a night season for coyotes, which runs from Feb. 1-May 31. Shotguns are the only legal firearm for night hunting.

There are also populations of dove, quail and pheas-ant in our mountain home. The trapping of furbearers is another part of mountain heritage. The hills, hollers, lakes and streams are full of game that sportsmen can hunt and trap. Get out, enjoy the mountains and fill your freezer with self-sustaining protein! Enjoy your visit to our moutain home and always remember, leave it like you found it and pack out what you pack in!

HUNTING IN THE MOUNTAINSHunting Opportunities in Southeastern Kentucky

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A FESTIVAL FOR EVERY SEASON

Celebrating ourculture andheritage

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Eastern Kentucky residents know how to celebrate their heritage and culture, with lively annual fes-tivals held throughout the year. There’s some-thing for everyone at these local events:

PIKE COUNTY

Hillbilly Days Festival: Pike County is home to the state’s second largest festival, the Hillbilly Days Festival, which is held in April in downtown Pikeville. Founded by Shriners Howard “Dirty Ears” Stratton and the late “Shady” Grady Kinney and coordinated by the Southeast Kentucky Cham-ber of Commerce with assistance from the city of Pikeville, Pike County, and numerous organizations and businesses, this festival attracts more than 150,000 people to Pikeville every spring. And there’s a reason for it. People love hillbil-lies and their silly antics! With more than 300 vendors, this festival features plenty of food, arts, crafts, a large carnival, a parade, a quilt show, activities for children, live music on several stages and, best of all, hundreds of hillbillies, who travel from all over the country just to be a part of it. They put on their hillbilly best, doll up their jalopies, and trav-el to Pikeville. Hillbilly Days serves as a fundraiser for the Shriner’s Hospital for Children. Shriner hillbillies sell their wares and collect donations that are given to the hospital, and portions of proceeds from vendor booth sales and other activities, like the annual “Run for the Children,” are also donated. It truly is a festival with a heart. For details, call 606-432-5504 or visit Hillbilly Days on Facebook.

Hatfield-McCoy Heritage Days Festival: The popular-ity of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, a decades-long blood feud between families living in Pike County and Mingo Coun-ty, W.Va. following the Civil War, sparked the creation of the Hatfield-McCoy Heritage Days Festival, held Labor Day weekend in downtown Pikeville. This event features a little bit of something for everybody, including live enter-tainment, arts and crafts, craft demonstrations a paintball


ball tournament between the Hatfields and McCoys, the annual “Ruff, Tuff, Cuss” obstacle course race, and other activities. For details, visit http://tourpikecoun-ty.com or http://visitpikeville.com.

Apple Blossom Festival: It wouldn’t be spring without the annual Apple Blossom Festival in Elkhorn City. The Whitewater Shrine Club hosts this festival every May to celebrate the community and raise funds for Shriners Hospitals for Children. Visitors can ex-pect to find plenty of live music, inflatables, Shriner train rides, food and craft vendors, a parade, and other activities. The Elkhorn City Woman’s Club also hosts a pancake breakfast on the morning of the parade. For details, visit the Elkhorn City Facebook page or call 606-754-5080.

Kiwanis Fall Festival: The Kiwanis Club of Pikev-ille, the Kiwanis Club of Coal Run, and affiliated KEY Clubs from local schools host the Kiwanis Fall Festival in downtown Pikeville every October. This event fea-tures hay rides, scavenger hunts, a pumpkin patch, and various activities. This is the Kiwanis Club’s biggest annual fundraiser, providing funds that helps the Ki-wanis continue services to local youth and communi-ties. For details, visit the club’s Facebook page.

FLOYD COUNTY

Jenny Wiley Pioneer Festival: Thousands of people travel to Floyd County on the second week of October for the Jenny Wiley Pioneer Festival, held in honor of Jenny Wiley, a courageous Eastern Kentucki-an who escaped captivity from Native Americans during the region’s pioneer days. The festival offers live music from numerous bands on the downtown stage, arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, a carnival, a parade on Saturday, and a beauty pageant for children of all ages. New this year, the Richmond Pow-Wow Association will make its debut at the festival, performing authen-tic Native American rituals, dances and offer traditional crafts. For details, visit the festival’s Facebook page.

Kentucky Highland Folk Festival: The Prestons-burg Tourism Convention & Visitor’s Bureau cele-brates the region’s history with the Kentucky Highland Folk Festival, held in conjunction with the Battle of Middle Creek Re-enactment during the second week of September. Visitors who stop by the living history Civil War camp on the battlefield will also have the opportunity to listen to Appalachian music and enjoy clogging demonstrations and other activities. For de-tails, visit the tourism agency’s Facebook page.

Red, White & Blue Days Festival: The city of Martin shows its patriotic colors during the annual Red, White & Blue Days Festival, held on the third weekend of October. In its 46th year, the festival was created to honor and celebrate Eastern Kentucky veterans and, this year, it’s held in memory of festi-val founder Marcella Bailey. Festivities include a free dinner for veterans and their spouses, live entertain-ment, a carnival, arts and craft vendors, food vendors, a parade, a car show, and a pageant. For details, visit http://redwhiteandbluedays.com or the city tourism department’s Facebook page.

JOHNSON COUNTY

Apple Days Festival: Thousands of people travel to Johnson County on the first weekend of October for the annual Apple Days Festival. In its 53rd year, Apple Days is a longstanding Eastern Kentucky tra-dition. This festival features more than 45 events and attractions, including a carnival, parade, arts and craft vendors from all over the country, car and bike shows, and, of course, plenty of fried apple pies and other ap-ple-flavored goodies. For details, visit http://kyapple-fest.org.

LETCHER COUNTY

Mountain Heritage Festival: It started with a pig roast in 1983, and now, the Mountain Heritage Festi-val brings thousands of people into downtown Whites-burg every year. Held at the end of September, this week-long festival features arts and writing contests, photo contests, a carnival, food and craft vendors, live entertainment, arts and craft demonstrations, and the annual Mountain Idol singing competition, as well as plenty of other activities. For details, visit http://

mountainheritagefestival.com or the festival’s Face-book page.

Cumberland Festival: There’s only one place to find the annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival, and that’s on the grounds of Appalshop in downtown Whitesburg every June. This festival started in 1987 to celebrate the region’s Appalachian heritage. It features live music performed on stage, documentaries filmed by Appalshop, square dancing , arts and craft demon-strations, literary readings and other events. For de-tails, visit the Appalshop Facebook page.

The Jenkins Homecoming Days Festival: The last week of August marks a homecoming in Jenkins. The Jenkins Homecoming Days Festival, founded in 2007, celebrates the history of the city, which was founded as a coal mining town in 1912. This event features live entertainment by local, regional, and national talent, as well as family-friendly activities and other events. For details, visit the Jenkins Homecoming Days on Facebook.

Neon Area Days Festival: The Neon Area Days committee organizes and hosts numerous events throughout the year, including the annual Neon Area Days Festival, held in September. Visitors can expect to find a themed “dress up” contest for children, live entertainment, a parade, and other activities. For de-tails, visit the Neon Area Days on Facebook or call 606-855-9026.

Blackey Day Festival: The community of Black-ey welcomes old friends and family members back to town every October for the annual Blackey Day Fes-tival. This homecoming event features live entertain-ment, food vendors, and various activities. For details, visit the Blackey Day Festival on Facebook.

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Isom Days: The community of Isom in Letcher County brings festival goers back to the horse-trade days during its annual festival, held during Labor Day at the Isom Fairgrounds, a former stock sale. This event features arts and crafts, food vendors, a carnival, live entertainment, and professional rodeo shows. For details, visit the Isom Days Facebook page.

LAWRENCE COUNTY

Coal Miner’s Bluegrass Festival: Lawrence Coun-ty honors coal miners with the annual Coal Miner’s Bluegrass Festival on the first weekend in August. Those who love bluegrass music gather at the Law-rence County Park at Pleasant Ridge, located on the shores of Yatesville Lake, for two days of live music and activities. Camping is available. For details, visit http://lawrencecounty.ky.gov or call 606-673-1166 or 606-638-4102.

Septemberfest: There’s nothing like September-fest, the festival that prides itself as the “Best Little Festival in Kentucky.” Held the weekend after Labor Day in Louisa, this street festival features live enter-tainment, arts and craft vendors, more than 100 food vendors, a carnival, a fishing tournament, a pageant, a

Christian concert on Sunday, and other activities. For details, visit http://septemberfestlouisa.com.

MAGOFFIN COUNTY

Heritage Days: The Magoffin County Historical Society and the city of Salyersville bring young and old together for a cultural celebration during its an-nual Heritage Days festival. Formerly known as the Founders Day festival, this event is held in September, featuring live entertainment, a parade, and historic ex-hibitions, right in the heart of Salyersville, where the Pioneer Village, a collection of authentic log cabins, are on display. For details, call 606-349-2409.

Magoffin County Community Day: In its 12th year, the Magoffin County Community Day welcomes visitors to the Ramey Memorial Park in Salyersville for live entertainment. This day-long event, held every August, features music from local and regional bands and other activities. This event, sponsored by Salyers-ville National Bank, raises funds for several nonprofit organizations. Admission is required for adults, but the event is free to children under the age of 12. For details, call 606-349-3131.


KNOTT COUNTY

Gingerbread Festival: There’s only one place to find the world’s largest gingerbread man, and that’s in the community of Hindman in Knott County on the first Thursday after Labor Day every September. They pull out all the stops while celebrating the mountain tradition of “encouraging” people to vote at this festi-val, offering , of course, plenty of gingerbread, arts and crafts, live music, and other activities. For details, vis-it http://knottcountyadventure.com or call 606-785-5329.

Appalachia Day: Alice Lloyd College welcomes the public to its mountain get-away on the second week-end of October for its annual Appalachia Day. This festival features traditional mountain music, exhibits, crafts, and demonstrations by Appalachian craftsmen. For details, call 606-368-2101.

MARTIN COUNTY

Martin County Harvest Festival: The Kiwanis Club of Greater Martin County welcomes visitors into the community of Inez every fall for the annual Martin County Harvest Festival. This event, once held during the second week of October, has been moved to Sep-tember, in hopes the weather will be more cooperative for festival-goers. Held behind the county courthouse, the festival features games and activities, karaoke and “hollering” contests, dancing , music, food and craft vendors, hayrides, a beauty pageant, a pet contest and local talent. For details, call 606-395-6423 or visit the Kiwanis Club of Greater Martin County on Facebook.

Are you looking for ad-venture? Or maybe a place to sit back and relax ? We’ve got that

and more at Breaks Park, the Grand Canyon of the South.

You’ll find six stunning overlooks offering views of the deepest river gorge east of the Mississippi River, the Russell Fork River, and moun-tain ranges in two states. But that’s just the beginning ! If you’re look-ing for excitement, you’ll love expe-riencing up to class-five rapids on the Russell Fork River. There are more than 13 miles of hiking trails and 10 miles of developed biking trails with different levels of diffi-culty, and if you’re into geocaching ,

you’ll be excited to learn there are more than 60 caches hidden in and around the park. Pedaling around Laurel Lake on water bikes is al-ways fun, or take your fishing pole to hone your angling skills. The wa-ter park, Splash! in the Park, offers a current channel, four water slides, splash pads, an in-pool volleyball court and more.

A new addition to the program-ming schedule is Elk Tours, planned on select dates in the spring and fall — peak viewing times for the nearby herd. Events such as the Tri-State Gospel Sing during Labor Day weekend, Nature Weekend in September, and the Appalachian Heritage Festival in October are

visitor favorites, but interpretive programs, music performances, and special events planned throughout the season offer enjoyment for vis-itors of all ages.

Looking for a good campsite? A room? A cottage in the woods? A cabin by the lake with a hot tub? They’ve got all that too! Whether you’re planning a day trip, a week-end get away, or a week-long vaca-tion with us, it’ll be wonderfully memorable! For more information about the park, lodging , and events and programs, please visit the web-site at www.BreaksPark.com.

BREAKS INTERSTATE PARK� e Grand Canyon of the South

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In the 1960s, a movement was born. Railroads were abandoning many miles of rail, just as Americans were

embracing more outdoor activities, including walking , bicycling and horseback riding. The Rails-to-Trails movement gained momentum across the country, and eventually Congress enacted a federal law to help fund rail trails. In 2013, The Dawkins Line Trail was opened, fol-lowing the Dawkins rail line which ran from Hager Hill to Evanston. The scenic, multi-use trail spans 18 miles across Johnson and Magoffin Counties, and is Kentucky’s longest recreational rail trail. Originally constructed in the early 1900’s to transport timber sourced by the Dawkins Timber Company, the re-claimed trail is now a haven for a variety of trail enthusiasts. Bikers, horseback riders and hikers count the 662 foot, Gun-Creek Tun-nel and 24 trestles along the path, among the many captivating aspects of the trail. The trail has been wide-ly promoted for its tourism poten-tial, and the response has been far greater than local residents antici-pated. Locals and visitors alike re-visit the trail time and time again to experience all that the area has to offer. As with all of Southeastern Kentucky, autumn is a particular-

ly beautiful time to visit the Trail. Expanses of red, orange and gold foliage line the paths and further illuminate the Trail’s unparalleled beauty. During the summer months, visitors will marvel at the highest biodiversity in North America. But take heed – early morning is pur-ported to be the best time to expe-rience the trail in the hottest part of the season. Elk viewing is just one opportunity the Dawkins Trail affords, along with an incredible va-riety of native animals and plants. Winter offers a spectacular view of native birds, and when the trees are bare, views are exponentially in-creased. No matter your seasonal preference, Dawkins Line Trail is an absolute must for all outdoor lov-ers. Nestled between two of south-east Kentucky’s finest counties, and with future plans to expand to a 36 mile trail, the opportunity to see the unique beauty of the Appala-chian Mountains beckons everyone, from experienced hikers and horse-back riders, to casual strollers and bicycle enthusiasts.

Hiking , biking , and horseback riding are allowed on the Dawkins Line Trail. Easy access is off State Route 825 approximately one mile west of Mill Creek Road in Johnson County.

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OPEN FOR BUSINESS Growing industry in Southeast Kentucky

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Eastern Kentucky is open for business. Wheth-er it be manufacturing , medicine or mining , industry plays a vital role in the region’s economy. And with infrastructure already

in place and many improvements in the works, Eastern Kentucky can serve as a new home for businesses look-ing to relocate.

Eastern Kentucky has come a long way from the days when it was considered a geographically isolated region, with a rugged terrain and few facilities, leaving it un-approachable by modern industry. Today, the region boasts a modern highway system, all necessary utilities, a highly-skilled workforce, and plenty of available in-dustrial park space.

Further improvements are also on the way. The Moun-tain Parkway Expansion will close the final link in a statewide east-west corridor, running from Pikeville to Paducah. And the “Kentucky iWay” broadband project will bring world-class, high-speed internet to Eastern Kentucky.

NO LONGER ISOLATEDWhile the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains

once kept Eastern Kentucky cut off from the rest of the world, that is no longer the case. Significant strides have been made over the past 50 years which have the region connected to the rest of the world.

The most notable and immediately recognizable of those improvements is the system of modern highways crisscrossing the mountains. The region is now just as accessible as any other part of the country. Coupled with modern airport facilities and an extensive rail sys-

tem, the mountains no longer pose barriers to transpor-tation.

With its abundance of natural resources, Eastern Ken-tucky is the heart of the nation’s energ y production sec-tor. In fact, easy access to low-cost energ y helped Ken-tucky rank as number-one for “cost of doing business” and number-four for “cost of living” in CNBC’s “Amer-ica’s Top States for Business.”

And Eastern Kentucky’s central location makes it an ideal spot for many industries. Surrounded by automo-bile manufacturers and centered within easy reach of the vast majority of the country’s population, the region is a strategic location for businesses looking to serve both industrial and consumer markets.

Perhaps that is why a number of industries already call Eastern Kentucky home, including those associated with chemical manufacturing , healthcare, natural gas, petroleum refining and primary metals.

MOUNTAIN PARKWAYThe final gap in Eastern Kentucky’s transportation

picture will soon be closed, with the Mountain Parkway Expansion. The project will upgrade a 46-mile section of two-lane road to a modern, four-lane highway.

Completion of the entire expansion is expected in 2020. When finished, the Mountain Parkway will be a key link between Eastern Kentucky and the rest of the state, promoting tourism, business and economic de-velopment. It will also complete a system of modern highways connecting Eastern Kentucky to the rest of the nation.

KENTUCKY IWAYBusiness runs at the speed of data, and Eastern Ken-

tucky will soon have a network offering among the fast-est capacity available in the United States.

The Kentucky iWay is the name given to the ambi-tious high-speed, fiber-optic network. Following on the diversification efforts of the SOAR Initiative, the network’s I-75 spine and Eastern Kentucky rings will be constructed first.

When finished, the Kentucky iWay will dispel the state’s historically low connection speeds, offering busi-nesses a chance to compete globally, educators access to greatly expanded resources, and health care providers unparalleled connectivity.

The network will also be unique in that it will be an “open access” network. This means cities, partnerships, private companies or other groups may tap into those “middle-mile” lines to complete the “last mile” – the lines that run to individual homes or businesses.

SKILLED WORKFORCEKentucky Work Ready is the nation’s most rigorous

certification program, allowing communities to demon-strate the quality of their workforce. And Eastern Ken-tucky is well along the path toward demonstrating that it has among the most highly skilled workers, available for immediate employment.

In the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce’s service area, five of the eight counties — Floyd, John-son, Knott, Lawrence and Martin — are already certi-fied as Work Ready in Progress communities.

A Kentucky Work Ready Community in Progress cer-tification is an indication to employers that your county is on the move and that you are motivated to improve your workforce. If this status can be achieved, it be-comes a framework to get your workforce to the next level.

The remaining three have also begun work toward certification. Pike and Letcher counties have submitted Letters of Intent, while Magoffin County is in the for-mative stage of the process.

And there are many opportunities for additional training and education at schools throughout the re-gion. Eastern Kentucky is served by seven four-year col-leges and 11 two-year colleges within an hour’s drive of Pikeville. In addition, public school systems operate nine technolog y centers in the region, and the Carl D. Perkins Job Corps Center provides vocational training in hospitality, security and skilled trades.

Educational institutions throughout the region are committed to providing the education and training nec-

essary for the jobs of the future. As an example, Big San-dy Community and Technical College and the Univer-sity of Pikeville have announced a collaborative effort to offer training in preparation for the construction of the Kentucky iWay network. The schools are working together to provide certifications, which can lead to an information technolog y associate’s degree at Big Sandy. This degree can be used to pursue an information tech-nolog y bachelor’s degree at UPike.

The schools in the Kentucky Community and Techni-cal College System are able to work with employers to design programs that meet their training needs. Classes can even be taught on business premises. Businesses in-terested in learning how they can partner with KCTCS to fill training needs can contact the Workforce Solu-tions office of any KCTCS school.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTHAny business looking to relocate or expand must first

find a location, and Eastern Kentucky has numerous sites available. In the Southeast Kentucky Chamber’s service area, the East Kentucky Business Park in Martin County and the Gateway Regional Business Park have shovel-ready sites. East Kentucky (Honey Branch) Busi-ness Park has also completed a 44,000-square-foot spec building earlier this year.

In addition to those locations, secondary sites are available in Floyd, Magoffin and Pike counties. In all, nearly 1,000 acres are ready for development.

One East Kentucky, a regional economic development organization, can help businesses interested in locating in Eastern Kentucky navigate the complex issues associ-ated with site selection.


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Small businesses are much more resilient and more re-active to economic changes than are larger businesses

that are dominant in their field and have more than 500 employees. For that reason, the small business seg-ment is an extremely important part of the economic development puzzle for any region. Since 1983, More-head State University’s East Ken-tucky Small Business Development Center has been one of the primary small business assistance programs in our region. Mike Morley has been the director of the Pikeville Small Business Development Center, lo-cated in Coal Run City on Route 23 just north of Pikeville, for the past 28 ½ years.

In Southeast Kentucky, there are several support programs and agen-cies for entrepreneurs who wish to become business owners. These en-tities work together as our region changes from an economy that re-lies heavily on natural resources to an economy centered around retail,

education and service. As our econ-omy transitions and our population grows older, opportunities for small businesses to develop niche markets increase as the demand for medical, financial and personal assistance ser-vices become more in demand.

The MSU/EKSBDC is part of a nation-wide program fund by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Kentucky State Government, More-head State University and sponsor-ships from local businesses. We have the responsibility for providing small business services to existing and po-tential small businesses through-out the 25 most eastern counties. We are a sub center of the Kentucky Small Business Development Cen-ter, located at the University of Ken-tucky, and we provide our clients with assistance in business planning , marketing and market research, re-cord keeping , structure selection, capital formation and financial anal-ysis. Since 1983, more than 9,500 existing or potential businesses have received services from our organiza-tion. Although not all of our clients are successful, many do quite well and surveys have proven that busi-ness owners who receive assistance from SBDCs nationwide are approx-imately three times more likely to be successful that those who don’t.

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Support for our region’s aspiring entrepreneurs


MICHELLE & JAMIE SWORD

Roasted Café and Grill was a brain storm of two energetic entrepreneurs. Michelle and Jamie Sword both were operating businesses of their own when they decided it was time for a change. When a prime downtown location for a unique and quaint co� ee shop and café became available, they grabbed the opportunity to become owners. A� er securing the location they had limited time to � nd the needed capital to � nance the opening. � ey struggled to � nance the project through traditional � nancing but then turned to the Small Business Development Center for guidance in preparing for a SBA guaranteed loan. � ey had been advised they would need a full business plan with a written narra-tive and � nancial projections. � e Small Business Development Center considered the urgency of their needs and within a few days they had the funding in hand and went on to open this attractive business. � ey have been in business for more than a year now and are celebrating not only the past year but the expectation of many more years of success. Michelle Sword, co-owner, gives the credit for her being able to grab on to this oppor-tunity to the Small Business Development Center. � anks to Roasted Café, 10 new jobs have been created in the area.

BRENT HALL

Brent Hall, owner of Steward and Sta� ord Tire and Custom Wheel in Pikeville, chose a very common way to expand his business. He and his brother Justin owned a small auto upholstery and reconditioning business in the Virgie, Kentucky area. Brent chose to pur-chase an existing successful business and make some changes to it that would result in in-creased pro� tability. In order to make that purchase in 2010, he knew he would need to � nd a source other than traditional bank � nancing. He had little money and no one to guarantee his ability to repay a loan. He was directed to the Small Business Development Center where a counselor provided him assistance in preparing for a Small Business Ad-ministration Loan. Business Plans and projected � nancials were prepared and Brent deliv-ered them to a local bank who was a SBA lender. He was successful in getting his capital and purchased the business in November of 2010. In 2015 Stewart and Sta� ord Tire and Custom Wheel provided four full-time jobs and three contractor jobs. In addition, the company o� ers a full line of wheel and auto repair services.

STEVE MCQUERRY

Steve McQuerry, after working for a large chain-store jeweler for 25 years, decided in 2002 that he would like to become the owner of his own jewelry store and jewelry repair center. He like many other entrepreneurs and new business owners found himself in a difficult position of not being unable to borrow money from the bank because he now had no job and the business had no history. The SBDC was able to guide McQuerry through the Small Business Administration lending process and he was able to raise the needed capital to start his business. That business has been growing ever since and now employs five full-time and part-time employees. When McQuerry is asked how he started his business, he always directs that person to the SBDC. He is an expert in jewelry and the SBDC is an expert in business operations.

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for sale, take your time, meet with multiple Realtors and find a Realtor and company that you trust and feel is the best match.

When looking for a property to purchase, Redd, Brown & Williams Real Estate recommends finding a Realtor you trust and working with them throughout the process. Whether it be our company or another, finding a Realtor to walk you through the entire process is a tremendous benefit. Realtors in eastern Kentucky co-broker which means any Realtor you work with can show you any list-ing. Luckily, the Realtors of Eastern KY work well to-gether and truly believe that success in our area is a result of working together. Working together is a theme that allows eastern KY to remain vital and strong even through economic downturns and tough times. Redd, Brown and Williams is proud to be a member of the Southeast Ken-tucky Chamber of Commerce where we work together to make sure our corner of the Earth remains successful and a place that people want to visit and hopefully make home.

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MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY Ranked among ‘Best College Observatories’

Morehead State University’s Space Sci-ence Center has been ranked among the 35 Best College Observatories in the United States by CollegeRank.net.

MSU was rated 26th overall in the poll.“We are pleased to be ranked in the Top 35 Best Col-

lege Observatories in the United States. This honor is a tribute to our outstanding astrophysics and space science faculty and students. The work being led by Dr. Tom Pannuti in supernova remnants, by Dr. Dirk Grupe in gamma ray bursts and by student groups in pulsar research is gaining momentum. Interestingly, the research is undertaken at both ends of the electromag-netic spectrum- in radio astronomy on the low energ y end, primarily undertaken with our 21 m Space Track-ing Antenna and Radio telescope- to X-ray and gamma ray astronomy on the high end- work typically under-taken with our nanosatellite based space platforms like CXBN. Dr. Pannuti, Dr. Grupe and the space science staff create outstanding opportunities for our students to participate in authentic research in astronomy- this has no doubt led to our recognition as a top college ob-servatory,” said Dr. Ben Malphrus, MSU’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences chair and Space Science Center director.

According to CollegeRank.net, the four main crite-

ria (Telescopes, Altitude, Weather and Light Pollution) were normalized to represent scores on a scale from 1-100 and then weighted equally. Bonus points ranging from 0-10 were given for noteworthy aspects of the ob-servatory and related programs.

The website stated: “This center focuses on nanosat-ellite technologies, like satellites weighing less than a kg per unit. Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies pro-vide inexpensive development of these tiny, highly func-tional satellites (cubesats) at Morehead State for the U.S. Dept. of Defense, other universities, and aerospace companies like NASA to use. These smaller than bread-box satellites are used for research and tactical defense from beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The University offers excellent educational opportunities for its students and student visitors in grades K -12. The Star Theater is open to the public one weekend a month for an educa-tional program, a tour of the night sky, and a dazzling display of a laser show to rival a Pink Floyd concert.”

CollegeRank.net offers students informational arti-cles covering a wide range of topics pertaining to the college selection process.

Additional information is available by contacting Dr. Malphrus at 606-783-2381 or email [email protected].


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� e leading university of Central Appalachia

The University of Pikeville stands as a school of opportunity and the leading university of Cen-tral Appalachia. The promise of a better tomor-row starts with higher education, and the future

of the region depends on developing its greatest asset – our young people.

With five consecutive years of record enrollment, the University of Pikeville remains steadfast in its commitment to prepare students for the future, creating intellectual, cul-tural and economic opportunities and maintaining a com-mitment to Christian principles.

For more than 125 years, the institution has embraced change in a purposeful way, one that honors the founding promise to educate the youth of the mountains. Committed to raising college attainment rates in the region, the uni-versity, or UPIKE, is building a knowledge-based economy shaped by talented, dedicated faculty teaching in techno-logically advanced facilities.

Steeped in the liberal arts tradition, the College of Arts and Sciences goes back to the beginning, preparing grad-uates through quality academic programs, involvement in community service, experiential learning, research, athlet-ics, humanitarian efforts and global outreach.

A diverse community of learners, UPIKE welcomes more than 2,400 students who hail from 34 states and 40 coun-tries. Students may chose from 27 majors and 11 preprofes-sional programs.

Named one of the “fastest-growing colleges” by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle’s “Almanac of Higher Education 2014” ranked UPIKE 20th nationally among private baccalaureate institutions, comparing data and trends over a 10-year period. UPIKE’s dual credit pro-gram serves more than 600 high school students in dis-tricts across Kentucky and also has been recognized na-tionally for growth and collaborative efforts to promote college readiness.

MEDICINE IN THE MOUNTAINS

Founded in 1997 to address the physician shortage in the region, the visionaries who established the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine (KYCOM) believed if you trained doctors from the mountains in the mountains, they would stay here, and build a life here. Of the approximately 1,000 graduates since the first class of physicians in 2001, more than 70 percent of these physicians are serving in pri-mary care.

KYCOM was ranked fifth among all medical schools in the nation, both D.O. and M.D., in U.S. News & World Re-port’s 2014 edition of Best Graduate Schools and ranked fourth in affordability among the 10 least expensive pri-vate medical schools. With the opening of the Coal Build-ing in 2012, KYCOM began a new chapter in its mission of service. Named in recognition of an industry that has provided significant support to the University of Pikeville for many years, the Coal Building, a $40 million educa-tional facility, features a clinical skills training and eval-uation center, robotic simulation, research and teaching labs, classrooms, offices and student study spaces. It also accommodates a larger class size, which is in keeping with KYCOM’s mission to alleviate physician shortages in Ken-tucky and Appalachia, especially in rural areas.

HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION BUILDING

Construction has begun on the University of Pikeville’s new Health Professions Education Building, a strategic effort to increase educational opportunities for students, stimulate economic development and improve compre-hensive health care needs in Central Appalachia. The 103,000-square-foot building will house the new Kentucky College of Optometry (KYCO), which plans to welcome its first class in 2016. Characterized as the “birthplace of rural optometry,” the university is in the process of applying for


accreditation to become the 22nd ed-ucational institution in the country to offer a college of optometry. KYCO’s mission is to provide health care in the underserved areas of Appalachia and rural America and will serve as a ven-ue to offer access to professional edu-cation for the first generation of rural populations.

Technology and clinical training as-pects of the facility will also enhance the learning experience for students in the Elizabeth Akers Elliott School of Nursing, a program initially founded in the early 1980s to meet the needs of nursing education and health care in the region. The RN to BSN program, added in 2011, leads to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in nurs-ing. Once the construction dust set-tles, student life also gets a boost, as the building will house a food court featuring major brands Chick-fil-A, Einstein Bros Bagels and P.O.D. Mar-ket (provisions on demand), a corner-store-meets-convenience-store offer-ing fresh produce, bakery and other items.

In 2014, USDA Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Doug O’Brien announced a $40 million Community Facilities partnership with the uni-versity to construct the new facility. “Comprehensive investments in health care and education have a tremendous impact on regional economies like Eastern Kentucky,” O’Brien said at the time. “We are making these strategic investments now to have a positive im-pact on Kentucky’s future.”

PATTON COLLEGEOF EDUCATION

With a focus on rural learning, the Patton College of Education strives to provide opportunities for aspiring and practicing educators through pro-fessional development and integrated learning experiences. Announced in 2015, the Patton College of Education was named in honor of Kentucky’s 59th governor, Paul E. Patton. As gov-ernor, Patton was a national leader, particularly in education policy. He proposed and championed the suc-cessful passage of Kentucky’s Higher

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Education Reform Act in 1997, an effort that has been recognized as a model of progressive higher education pol-icy. He also made substantial improvements in Kentucky’s pre-school and adult education programs, as well as suc-cessfully maintaining the momentum and funding for the Kentucky Education Reform Act. Patton was also chairman of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education from 2009-2011. “The Patton College of Education is named for a visionary who sees things not as they are, but what they may become,” said David Barnett, Ed.D., founding dean of the Patton College of Education.

A value-added program, the new Teacher Leader mas-ter’s degree strives to differentiate instruction based on the needs of individual students. The college of education also offers programs in elementary, middle grades and second-ary education.

COLEMAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

The Coleman College of Business is educating the next generation of leaders in an innovative and academically entrepreneurial learning environment, one that fosters an enterprising spirit and business mindset.

In 2015, a team of biology, chemistry and business stu-dents earned first place in four competitions, including UPIKE’s Startup Challenge, with their business plan for Rhizofeed. The team’s plan involved developing an organic feed additive for the poultry industry made from bloodroot

grown in Eastern Kentucky. The product creates benefits beyond what the current solutions of antibiotics and pro-biotics can offer. UPIKE students are working with Alltech to bring the product to market. The Nicholasville-based Alltech, a $1 billion company operating in 128 countries, makes and sells natural feed supplements that improve an-imal performance.

UPIKE is home to the Kentucky Innovation Network’s Pikeville office, which provides support to startup compa-nies in the Appalachian region. From assisting startups in assessing an idea, to developing a business plan, finding grants, loans and capital, the network helps local compa-nies discover the resources needed to be successful. The Pikeville office operates in the university’s Communi-ty Technology Center and serves nine counties, includ-ing Pike, Martin, Johnson, Floyd, Knott, Letcher, Perry, Breathitt and Magoffin.

ESPORTS

In 2015, UPIKE launched a new varsity Esports pro-gram and quickly earned international attention, receiving more than 700 applications from 11 countries. UPIKE is the second school in the country to make Esports part of the varsity athletics program and to offer scholarships. The university will compete as a co-ed sport in the Collegiate Star League, an intercollegiate gaming league open to all accredited colleges and universities in North America.


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Passion for the possible. That’s the mantra Dr. G. Devin Stephenson has ad-opted in his 40 years of

experience in higher education. Dr. Stephenson, a native of Sum-

iton, Alabama, became the second president of Big Sandy Community and Technical College (BSCTC) in June 2015. He came to the college after serving as president/CEO of Three Rivers College in Missouri from 2009-2014.

“Big Sandy Community and Tech-nical College is uniquely positioned to be a thriving part of the economic and community development hap-pening across the region,” said Dr. Stephenson. “We want the college to be the first choice when it comes to higher education, technical edu-cation, and workforce and commu-nity education.”

Dr. Stephenson, who is also a member of the board of directors of the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, said there were parallels that drew him to the Big Sandy re-gion. He is from a small coal min-ing community that has experienced some of the same economic hard-ships. He said economic and work-force development is most efficient-ly achieved on a regional level, and believes BSCTC should be a leader in such efforts.

“Economic developers are now fo-cused on bringing jobs to the region and I see the community college’s role as the facilitator of that pro-cess. We have the expertise to assess workers’ proficiencies, narrow the skills gap, create work-ready commu-nities, and lock arms with the many partners who play a vital role in po-sitioning the region for growth and

recruiting jobs that will be required of an ever changing workplace,” said Dr. Stephenson. “We have our work cut out for us, but if we condition ourselves to change and if we are dedicated to becoming and staying relevant, Big Sandy Community and Technical College can and will play the primary role in making things happen to secure the region’s future. Our success will be determined by how we partner with economic de-velopers, respond to changing edu-cational needs, and provide innova-tive delivery systems.”

At the end of the day, it is about student success for Dr. Stephenson. It’s about seeing a graduate walk across the stage at graduation, each journey different, but to a common destination – a point of success.

“The smile on their faces, the gleam in their eyes, and the loud

PASSION FOR THE POSSIBLE Stephenson sees BSCTC as change agent for region


shouts of affirmation from fami-ly and friends are strong indicators that each student has successfully completed a journey that was filled with joy, struggle, fulfillment, trials and accomplishment,” he said.

Equally as significant are the sto-ries for first jobs, transfer success and career milestones.

“Student success, in my opinion, forces all the rewards, and recogni-tions that I personally have realized to fade into the background. It isn’t about me – it is about ‘we’ – the college personnel, the students, and the thousands of citizens who stand behind us and advocate for our goal of helping students achieve their dreams,” he explained.

Dr. Stephenson believes commu-nity colleges are becoming the “rele-vant sector” of higher education and with that recognition comes much responsibility. He wants BSCTC to become a college of opportunity; a

college of hope; and the college of dreams.

“Big Sandy Community and Technical College has tremendous growth potential; however, it will require that we approach our future work with a dedication to excel-lence, a commitment to changing to meet the demands of a global econ-omy, and with the clear understand-ing that we cannot exist as an island and expect to be successful,” he said. “I see the college as a change agent – a vibrant, dynamic community of learners dedicated to engaging with every organization, entity, and con-sortium possible for the purpose of opening doors of opportunity.”

What will BSCTC look like in 2020? Stephenson unequivocal-ly sees a college on the move and a powerful regional stakeholder in economic and workforce develop-ment.

“I see new and upgraded facilities

and programs, increased enrollment, a robust external grant development initiative, and an institution that is characterized as a one that is fulfill-ing its mission and ‘making a differ-ence’ for the entire eastern Kentucky region,” he said.

That will also include an expan-sion of the college’s Pikeville cam-pus, including a parking garage, a 60,000 square-foot instructional fa-cility and a 25,000 square-foot

Broadband Center of Excellence, the first of its kind in Kentucky. Additionally, One East Kentucky, privately funded, non-profit organi-zation and partnership of local gov-ernments, chambers of commerce, industrial authorities, area develop-ment districts and private industry, is headquartered on the college’s Prestonsburg campus.

It’s not all about work for Dr. Ste-phenson. He is a classical pianist and plans to join the Big Sandy Sing-

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21,000+First-generation college students served at BSCTC since 2008

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ers and Band from time to time. “Music is a great vehicle to unite

diverse talents. It is the language of the soul and the universal language,” he continued. “I would also like to do some recording projects and take the proceeds from the sale of CD’s to endow a scholarship for students with a demonstrated financial need.”

Dr. Stephenson and his wife,

Judy, love the outdoors. They look forward to zipping , paddling and saddling in Pikeville, taking in the Breaks Interstate Park, Jenny Wiley State Park and Paintsville Lake State Park and riding along the Dawkins Line rails to trails project.

“The mountains and valleys in Eastern Kentucky provide us with the opportunity for adventure, and

Judy and I look forward to taking it all in,” he said. “We also want to blend these local treasures with-in our college community, and that means joining our personnel as we work to enhance a culture of health and wellness on our campuses. Cre-ating healthy lifestyles while at the same time providing a stage for peo-ple to communicate and interact is important to us.”

Dr. Stephenson is a community college graduate. He earned an asso-ciate degree in science from Walker Junior College, followed by a bache-lor of arts degree in business admin-istration from Birmingham-South-ern College and both master’s and doctoral degrees in the administra-tion of higher education from the University of Alabama.

Dr. Stephenson and his wife, Judy, reside in Paintsville. They have two adult children, Jon Stephenson and JuliAnne Stephenson.


A Degree of Difference Since... 1886

606-478-7200 | an.edu50 National College Blvd., Pikeville, KY 41501

- Zeke Karczewski Pikeville Campus Nursing Program Graduate

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“I was given the opportunity to change my life course when I was laid off. American National University presented me with a unique opportunity to improve my life and face that change.”

In 1886, a group of visionary educators and busi-ness leaders founded American National University (ANU), a college focused on providing career-based training to meet workforce needs. Over 125 years

later, ANU continues to fulfill that goal by offering diplo-ma, associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees in business, healthcare, and information technolog y at campuses located throughout the southeastern United States.

Our Pikeville Campus has prepared Eastern Kentucky stu-dents since 1973 and our graduates now work for hospitals, businesses, and government organizations in the local area and beyond. Accredited by the Accrediting Council of Inde-pendent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), ANU is committed to providing a personalized education that emphasizes stu-dent success through small class sizes, instructors with re-al-world experience, and curricula focused on in-field/hands-on experience. At ANU, frequent term starts, credit for life experiences, and our friendly credit transfer policies help you get in and out of your program quickly and start your new ca-reer. Lifetime career services and tuition-free refresher cours-es are available even after graduation.

Tiffany Burke, a 2014 graduate of the nursing program, is just one of the thousands of graduates who have experienced the degree of difference available at ANU. She now works as a licensed RN on the cardiac unit of Pikeville Medical Cen-ter. Key to Tiffany’s success were the flexible day and eve-ning class schedules at ANU and the online and on-campus learning formats designed with the working adult in mind. As a mom, “The evening and weekend schedule was a big factor because I didn’t have to depend on a babysitter,” she explained.

The supportive community at ANU also made a huge dif-ference to her. “All of the instructors were there to help at any time--it was just a very friendly learning atmosphere,” she stated. Looking back to where she started, Tiffany shared, “It’s very exciting to say that you work for one of the top hos-pitals in the nation. I take myself back five years ago, and I would never have imagined where I’m at today.”

Looking ahead to the next 100 years, ANU has a vision and plan – “Evolution 2086” – for providing programs that will meet the increasing demands for career education in growing fields, at higher degree levels, and in more campus locations. Programs such as the Emergency Medical Services-Paramed-ic associate’s degree (coming Fall of 2015), offer graduates exciting new opportunities in fields that are experiencing a shortage of educated and trained workers.

For more information visit an.edu, call (606) 478-7200 or stop by the campus located at 50 National College Boule-vard. Like our Facebook page and join us for community events, like our annual Healthy Fun Fair, a community event hosted by ANU each July. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Alltech broke ground on July 30, 2015 at the site that will house Eastern Kentucky’s first (legal) brewery and distillery, Duel-ing Barrels Brewing & Distilling Co. in

downtown Pikeville, Kentucky.The combined brewery and distillery, expected to

open in Spring 2017 at a cost of $13 million, will be uniquely Eastern Kentucky-inspired. It will feature its own range of beer and spirits that celebrate the area, in-cluding legal moonshine and bourbon.

For over a year the design team has worked on a build-ing that will embrace the rich history and culture of the region. The story of the Hatfields and McCoys, along with the region’s music heritage, will be part of the over-all strateg y.

“With Alltech’s global reach, it is expected that Duel-ing Barrels’ beer, whiskey and moonshine, all from East-ern Kentucky, will go to the global market by the end of next year,” said Dr. Pearse Lyons, president and found-er of Alltech. “It is also our hope that Dueling Barrels will extend the Kentucky Bourbon Trail into Eastern Kentucky, bringing visitors, tourism dollars and inter-national publicity with it. If Dueling Barrels is added to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour by the Kentucky Dis-

tillers’ Association, it would become the first and only stop east of Lexington.”

The distillery name was inspired by the notorious feuds between the Hatfields and McCoys, and is a dou-ble entendre with gun barrels and whiskey barrels. Du-eling Barrels will feature tours of the brewery and dis-tillery, beginning with a visit to a small theatre to view a video of what guests will experience. A tour of the dis-tillery and brewhouse will follow, where the process will be explained in depth, and then will end with a visit to the tasting room where the products can be sampled.

The Dueling Barrels building is being designed to be pleasing to both the front (Main Street) and the back (Second Street) in Pikeville and to tie in with the local architecture. Kentucky craftsmen are currently making copper pot stills which will proudly sit facing Hamb-ley Boulevard and can be viewed from the street. Ar-tisan stone masons from Rockcastle County, Kentucky will complete interior and exterior Kentucky fieldstone work. Hambley Boulevard will be fronted with the Kentucky fieldstone, whereas the Second Street side is designed to fit in with the current streetscape and will feature three separate shop fronts with unique designs.

A careful demolition of the former downtown property

ALLTECH BREAKS GROUND Dueling Barrels Brewing & Distilling Co.


on the site started in early 2015 to make room for the new building. Brewing and distilling equipment is cur-rently being constructed. Dueling Barrels has also led to a commitment from local businessman Mitch Potter to develop an Irish-style brewpub restaurant next to the brewery and distillery.

Alltech is investing in Eastern Kentucky because All-tech’s founders Pearse and Deirdre Lyons have an affin-ity for Eastern Kentucky, thanks to the region’s simi-larities with their native Ireland. They believe that by acting as a catalyst, others will follow suit as they bring new business to the area.

The new Dueling Barrels site is part of a continued global expansion of the Alltech Beverage Division.The beverage division began with a single brewery in down-town Lexington, Kentucky, and 10 years later the ad-dition of a distillery, Town Branch, was completed. As demand has increased for the company’s products, addi-tional capacity with storage and bottling lines has been added at a second Lexington site on Angliana Avenue five minutes from the original brewery.

Overseas, Alltech acquired two breweries in Ireland and the U.K. in July 2015 as part of an acquisition that will help the company broaden its reach.

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Pikeville Main Street – more than one street, it’s the complete downtown experience!

Main Street is a phrase used to denote the downtown area also known as the central

business district of a town where shops and retailers are located and is most often used in reference to re-tailing and community socializing.

Pikeville Main Street represents the interests of ev-eryday people and small business owners.

The Pikeville Main Street Program Board of Direc-tors is dedicated to downtown preservation, promo-tion and partnerships. Our focus includes the follow-ing events and projects to support businesses and offer a better quality of downtown life.

Main Street Live!

Facade Improvement

Revitalization

Arts & CultureDevelopment

Downtown Beautification

Destination Downtown

Shop Pikeville First

Downtown Gatherings& Events

The Pikeville Main Street Board of Directors, Com-mittees and Community Volunteers are very involved and excited about the growth of downtown shops, restaurants, businesses and cultural activities in Pikev-ille. It’s happening in Pikeville and Main Street invites you to experience downtown! For more information about downtown and the Pikeville Main Street Pro-gram email Minta Trimble, Director [email protected]

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LEVEL II TRAUMA CENTER

In its 90th year, Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) reached one of its most significant milestones to date. In 2015, the hospital announced it had been verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons.

It is the only Level II Trauma Center in Kentucky.As a verified trauma center, PMC is equipped and

staffed to provide comprehensive emergency care to patients suffering traumatic injuries caused by vehi-cle crashes, gunshots, assaults, falls or other incidents. The spectrum of care encompasses the pre-hospital phase through the rehabilitation process.

Regulations require that trauma victims be trans-ported to the closest trauma center, either by ground or air ambulance. PMC’s Trauma Center serves a pop-ulation of more than 400,000 people; increasing their chances of survival should they be injured.

Prior to PMC offering trauma services, many patients had to be transferred to facilities two hours away. Valu-able time in the treatment process was lost.

“Our Trauma Center verification makes trauma vic-tims safer by allowing them to be treated at our hos-pital instead of being transported to medical facilities further away,” said PMC President and CEO Walter E. May. “We firmly believe at PMC that where you live

should not determine if you live.” PMC’s trauma team is comprised of physicians spe-

cializing in trauma surgery, emergency medicine, gen-eral surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedic trauma surgery, orthopedic surgery, vascular surgery, hand surgery, plastic surgery, oral/maxillofacial surgery, anesthesiol-og y, interventional radiolog y, radiolog y, physical med-icine and rehabilitation, urolog y, podiatry and pulm-onolog y/critical care as well as mid-level healthcare providers, a trauma program manager, and nursing , re-spiratory, laboratory, radiolog y and case management staff.

Aaron Brown, MD, trauma surgeon and co-medical director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at PMC, stated, “This area has been in need of a trauma cen-ter for many years. PMC’s comprehensive trauma team stands ready to provide quality care to trauma victims.”

90 YEARS OF SERVICE

Over the past 90 years, Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) has grown from a 50-bed rural hospital to a 261-bed regional referral center.

On March 1, 1920, five of Pikeville’s leading citizens ( John W. Call, Harry Hoskins, Dr. R .S. Johnson, Dr. A.C. Bond and George Hames) met in a coffee shop to organize a stock company capitalized at $100,000

PIKEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER Becomes veri� ed Trauma Center, celebrates 90 years


for the purpose of building a hospital in Pikeville. The hospital opened its doors on Peach Orchard Hill on Christmas Day, 1924. Today, it is located on a sprawling campus totaling approximately one million square feet on Harold’s Branch Road.

PMC has grown from a small facility that used its entire staff to perform housekeeping and janitorial ser-vices, to an employer of approximately 2,500 people providing more than 400 services with state-of-the-art technolog y.

Since assuming the role of President of the Board over two decades ago, President/CEO Walter E. May has instilled the philosophy “dream big , and big things happen” in hospital administrators, physicians and staff. His goal has been to make health care more ac-cessible to those living in the region by bringing ser-vices to PMC that were once only offered at facilities two hours away.

A proud member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, PMC has recruited numerous specialty physicians over the past several years. More than 350 credentialed health care providers currently care for patients, com-pared to the hospital’s first medical staff of six physi-cians.

In addition to a Level II Trauma Center, PMC offers

the Leonard Lawson Cancer Center, Heart & Vascu-lar Institute, 40-bed Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospi-tal, Wound Care Center and Primary Stroke Center as well as neurosurgery, orthopedics and other specialty services.

PMC opened an 11-story clinic and 10-story parking garage on its main campus in April 2014. The PMC Clinic houses most of the hospital’s physician practices as well as additional operating and endoscopy suites.

Employees’ commitment to providing quality, re-gional health care in a Christian environment has been essential to PMC’s growth and achievements. In May 2015, PMC was named among the top five percent of hospitals in America to achieve the highest patient sat-isfaction rating possible – five-stars – from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

May said, “It’s clear to me there are two key factors in the hospital’s rapid growth – quality and operating in a Christian environment. I don’t know how you would have one without the other.”

PMC continues to expand, add services, purchase cutting-edge equipment and provide quality care to the increasing number of patients that enters its doors.

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When it’s a matter of the heart, minutes count. That is why Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) is pleased to offer patients advanced cardiac care close to home.

Heart care in Eastern Kentucky is delivered at a high level of medical excellence through ARH’s partnership with UK HealthCare Gill Heart Institute, which combines the decades of experience of ARH’s local car-diolog y team with the surgical expertise of UK surgeons.

This collaboration improves access to patient-centered care and cre-ates an extension of the Gill Heart Institute into the region. It also pro-vides patients access to UK’s comprehensive cardiovascular expertise and resources while maintaining the familiarity of ARH’s community health care providers.

Cardiac care at ARH includes prevention, education, early detection, diagnostic testing and procedures, surgical and invasive treatments in-cluding open heart surgery, as well as cardiac rehabilitation.

“The goal of ARH’s collaboration with the Gill Heart Institute is to expand the scope of cardiolog y services provided within our com-munities,” says Joe Grossman, ARH President and CEO. “By providing a range of comprehensive cardiolog y services, including inpatient and outpatient services to residents of Eastern Kentucky, we hope to im-prove lives in a region where patients suffer from some of the highest rates of mortality in the nation from heart disease and stroke.”

The ARH/UK Gill Heart Institute collaboration includes the Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center, Whitesburg ARH Hospital, McDowell ARH Hospital, Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital , Mid-dlesboro ARH Hospital , Harlan ARH Hospital and the Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center.

ARH’s experienced staff, nurses, physicians, cardiologists, and sur-geons provide the advanced cardiac care you need, when you need it. You and your family will never again have to face the high cost and inconvenience of traveling to other areas for heart procedures that can now be done right here at home by some of the nation’s top medical professionals.

ARH ANDTHE UKGILL HEARTINSTITUTEARE TAKINGYOUR HEALTHTO HEART


Good news, Eastern Kentucky. Your level of cardiac care now has more heart than ever. The UK Gill Heart

Institute and ARH have come together to focus on improving cardiac health across the region. Working as a

team, our common goal is to provide world-class expertise and unmatched care to all of Eastern Kentucky.

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Passport Health Plan is Southeastern Ken-tucky’s local, community-based health plan and is committed to improving the health and quality of life of all members of the

community. We take pride in working with local pro-viders and community advocates to make a difference in the lives of the people we serve.

Not only is Passport based in Kentucky, but we have opened a regional office in Prestonsburg (Floyd County). We have local staff there to help residents and healthcare providers access the services they need, including maternity and newborn care, pediatric ser-vices, behavioral health services (including substance use disorder services), rehabilitative services, preven-tive and wellness services, and chronic disease manage-ment.

Passport is also committed to being an even larger part of the Eastern Kentucky community by joining the uniquely bipartisan effort that is Shaping Our Ap-palachian Region (SOAR). As a part of this initiative, Passport is committed to working with state and com-munity leaders to be an active part of the entire region.

We have joined with Highlands Health System (and will be joining with 10 more counties in the St. Claire Regional Medical Center coverage region during the

2015-16 year) to present a new health program in el-ementary schools throughout four Eastern Kentucky counties called “GoNoodle.” An interactive resource used to increase students’ physical activity and im-prove their academic performance, GoNoodle provides online physical activity breaks, or “brain breaks,” to make it easy for teachers to get kids moving inside the classroom and to improve their behavior, focus, and en-gagement. For the 2014-15 school year (through May 31, 2015), more than 20 different elementary schools in Floyd, Martin, Johnson, and Magoffin counties took part in the GoNoodle program, with more than 350 teachers leading more than 7,700 students to take part in 867,829 student minutes of physical activity !

Through these partnerships, along with many other programs that we are involved in with residents and healthcare providers around Southeastern Kentucky, Passport Health Plan is committed to bringing our community-based approach to the entire region.

For more information about who we are and what we do, please feel free to go online to passporthealth-plan.com; connect with us via Facebook, Twitter, Ins-tagram, or Pinterest; or call us at 1-800-578-0603. To-gether we can help all Kentuckians live healthier lives.

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Since the dawn of the 20th century, eastern Ken-tucky’s economy has been dependent upon the coal in-dustry. Coal was mined and utilized much earlier but could not be transported far on wagons maneuvering through difficult terrain. The only mines that could get coal to markets beyond their local communities were those situated along navigable rivers and water-ways.

After the Civil War, railways began to make their way into the area, inching ever closer to the abundant coal reserves located in the remote areas of eastern Ken-tucky. Industry expansion followed, and the Kentucky coalfields became a key supplier of bituminous coal – the preferred energ y source for a growing nation. The region’s economic health has been directly linked to the mining industry ever since.

Mining methods evolved through the years and the industry was transformed by technolog y and mecha-nization. High tech sensors and monitors replaced the iconic canary, and sophisticated machinery made rel-ics of the pick and shovel. A single remote-controlled machine can now mine in one minute what it took a miner in the 1920s an entire day to produce.

Changes in mining methods reinvented the modern day coal miner. Every stage of today’s coal mining oper-ations from preliminary planning to final reclamation requires workers adept at operating computer con-trolled systems. Machines used for mining are some of the largest and most complex in the world and are op-erated by highly trained and skilled men and women. Only the best mechanics can assemble, piece by piece, enormous components of equipment that were low-

ered down mine elevator shafts. Surveyors and map-ping specialists, electricians and ventilation engineers – these and many more high tech specialists make up the well compensated workforce of today’s mining in-dustry.

A convergence of events has brought about a reset to a new normal.

The people of eastern Kentucky are accustomed to rising and falling along with the up and down rhythms of the coal industry. This time is different. Many mines across the region have closed due to weakened demand, depleted reserves, increased production costs and a lower sales price. Thousands of men and women have lost their jobs. Increased governmental regulations make it unlikely that the industry will rebound.

A workforce made up of intelligent, highly-skilled men and women with a strong work ethic are now un-employed or underemployed. There are few jobs in the region that pay the wages previously earned and no way to maintain their standard of living without moving away. Most of these men and women do not want to move. Eastern Kentucky is home and they have strong ties to the region, its culture, and to their com-munities. Many have extended family who have been here for generations.

A new day. A new way.A tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity exists – a

labor pool of intelligent men and women who possess proven abilities and a strong work ethic. The challenge is to create a business that can utilize those character-istics and provide jobs to support a standard of living equal to that previously provided by the coal industry.

A NEW DAY. A NEW WAY. Bringing the coding revolution to eastern Kentucky


If such a business is established in eastern Kentucky, new skills will be learned and high wages earned with-out relocating from the region.

Bit Source, LLC is a for profit business linking this opportunity and challenge. The business concept and plan is to transition a workforce from one that exported coal from the region to one that exports CODE (#ex-portCode). The geographic barriers to the region’s eco-nomic development will have little or no impact on this venture. The World Wide Web travels through eastern Kentucky like a four lane highway with easy access to connections and that is the only requirement to export code.

The task is twofold:- To develop the workforce- To enter the marketplaceWe are on a parallel track. We are identifying workers

and developing the skills training process while simul-taneously exploring markets and business strategies that will provide sustainable jobs into the future. We are do-ing this at the speed of business. We have established fa-cilities in downtown Pikeville, hired staff and purchased state-of-the-art equipment needed for individual and group instruction. We are identifying markets for the skills we are developing. Once trained, our workforce will be qualified to create source code for websites, mo-bile apps, computer games, databases and more. We are bringing the coding revolution to eastern Kentucky by

establishing a digital hub in Pikeville, Kentucky.One thing is certain, our initial evaluation of the labor

pool as capable and eager to work and learn new skills is proving to be accurate. In less than a month from the date Bit Source, LLC was introduced to the public, we received more than nine hundred inquiries from local men and women who want to take advantage of this op-portunity, many of whom are skilled workers who lost their jobs in the mining industry. Initial evaluations and aptitude tests confirm that, for many, the logic-based skills required to be successful in their previous jobs are ideal for the tasks at hand.

It will be a long time before the success of this enter-prise can be measured. There is much to learn, mistakes to be made and, hopefully, success stories to savor. It is hoped that through collaboration, hard work and inge-nuity, the venture will be successful. Whatever the out-come, one thing is undeniable: Nothing can be accom-plished without trying. The hardworking residents of eastern Kentucky do not want welfare; they want work. They want well-paying jobs to support their families and to live well. It is our goal to provide these jobs and positively impact the future of these people and the eco-nomic health of the region.

You can follow Bit Source on Twitter @bitsourceky and like their Facebook page to get updates on the pro-gram’s progress.

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Sitting in his upstairs office, overlooking Pikeville City Park, Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Jacob S. Colley pauses for a moment and

considers the question posed to him – “what does the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce do?”

Colley considered the Chamber and all of the services it provides to regional businesses and the community. He noted that the Southeast Kentucky Chamber is a key and critical part of Eastern Kentucky. “The Chamber stays busy year-round with business seminars, leadership development, regional promotion, and political advoca-cy efforts, to name a few. And that is not to mention the nearly nonstop work that goes into Hillbilly Days each year.”

Indeed, the difficulty is in summarizing it in one pat answer.

“One thing that’s difficult about our Chamber is that you can’t pinpoint just one thing and say, ‘That’s what we do best,” Colley said. “We accomplish a lot each year and have several strategic initiatives that drive us each day.”

Colley says it is impossible to create a cookie-cut-ter template of a chamber of commerce — at least, a successful one. That’s because the one thing good chambers have in common is that they have very lit-

tle in common. Instead, a successful chamber reflects the community it serves and is responsive to its needs. That means identifying strengths and finding ways to harness them; determining weaknesses and formulat-ing a plan to minimize or overcome them.

“Chambers are very similar all over the nation in a lot of ways, but they also mold themselves to the needs of the communities they serve,” Colley said.

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION

One of the biggest needs the Chamber has tackled was also the inspiration for the decision to expand what was the Pike County Chamber of Commerce four years ago to the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, covering Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Letcher, Magoffin and Martin counties, in addition to Pike.

“The major vision behind the transition is the re-alization that our economy is changing and has been changing for quite some time,” Colley said. “No one county can go it alone.”

Colley said that as the business marketplace contin-ues to grow more competitive, the need for pursuing common goals on a regional basis is stronger than ever. He said that past county-by-county efforts saw only a

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limited success, depending on the individual strengths and weakness-es of a rotating cast of characters. The Southeast Kentucky Chamber, however, has a full-time staff taking a strength-in-numbers approach to work on the needs of the entire re-gion.

And the effort to get leaders to think in terms of a regional ap-proach, rather than as individual counties, is starting to pay off.

“That’s something I think we’ve had some success with and some-thing I hope we can focus on a little more in the future,” Colley said. “I think we have a very united busi-

ness community today. When push comes to shove and things need to get done, I think people are more willing to talk about the issues now.”

ONE EAST KENTUCKY

While the Southeast Kentucky

Chamber is focused on the needs of the region, tackling all of those needs can be a daunting task, pull-ing too few resources in too many directions. That realization has led the Chamber to one of its biggest successes in recent years. Respond-ing to a need to approach major economic development on the same

regional basis, the Chamber worked with the Floyd County Chamber of Commerce, Hazard/Perry County Chamber of Commerce, Letcher County Chamber of Commerce and Paintsville/Johnson County Cham-ber of Commerce to form a new en-tity focused entirely on economic development -- One East Kentucky.

The new organization is charged with the task of recruiting major employers to fill industrial sites around the region. It serves the same territory as the Southeast Kentucky Chamber, plus Perry County.

“We recognized that was a need for our communities to grow or to

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rebound,” Colley said.Colley says handing off the heavy lifting of industrial

recruitment to a new organization focused entirely on that job will allow the Chamber to better do what it does best -- serve the needs of small business.

SERVING BUSINESS

It is no secret that the regional economy of Eastern Kentucky has seen its share of challenges over the past few years, with an uncertain future related to Ameri-ca’s ever-changing energ y sector. As such, a lot of busi-nesses are facing new pressures, but Colley says that is when the work of the Chamber and other groups is even more vital to future success.

“A lot of business owners do feel defeated on some level,” Colley said. “They are having to cut jobs and cut hours. But the silver lining is there are organizations like ours, like One East Kentucky, like SOAR … that are invested in creating a better tomorrow.”

Colley says that the mission of the Southeast Ken-tucky Chamber is simple -- “Bring business leaders to-gether to grow the overall pie.”

Doing that job effectively, however, requires a lot of work, pulling together many different resources. And that is exactly what the Chamber does.

Over the past year, the Chamber has served its 557 members by holding 13 professional development events, 40 networking events, 29 community involve-ment events, and six political events. In addition, the group has awarded $83,250 in grants.

The Chamber also meets professional development needs in the region through its Patton Leadership In-stitute, a nine-month course designed to make local professionals and business leaders more familiar with the issues and concerns of the region. The program exposes participants to the different sectors of the re-gional economy and encourages leadership develop-ment through a variety of exercises.

Colley says he wants businesses to know that the Chamber is there to serve them.

“We want to make sure they know they have support from us,” Colley said. “We’re an organization here to try to identify challenges our communities have and our businesses have. They can worry about their busi-ness and know they have an organization that has a strateg y to help them stay in business and grow in busi-ness.”


Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

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3 B Toner, Inc.PO Box 303Pikeville, KY 41502606-432-66243btoner.com

3 Southern Sisters, LLC182 Nightingale Lane Pikeville, KY 41501606-422-01093southernsisters.com

3R Archery6450 Robinson CreekRobinson Creek, KY 41501606-639-8097

4-Star Catering Inc.641 Breeding Creek Rd. Redfox, KY 41847606-642-33254starcatering.com

A&L Outlet213 S. Mayo Trail, Suite CPikeville, KY 41501606- 509-0963

A&S Auto Parts, Inc. PO Box BElkhorn City, KY 41522606-754-4095

AAA Real Estate141 Hibbard StreetPikeville, KY 41501606-433-9700aaarealestateservices.com

AAA Real Estate – Paintsville224 Main St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-9700aaarealestateservices.com

Aaron’s Sales133 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0303dalejacobs.com

Abode USA Realty & Auction172 College St.Pikeville, KY 41501606- 432-2233abodeusa.com

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1892 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-5575facebook.com/AboveAndBeyondJustForYou

Addiction Recovery Care125 N. Main Cross St.Louisa, KY 41230606-638-0938

AIG Financial Network103 Weddington Branch Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606- 432-0155

Air Methods2969 Airport Rd.Debord, KY 41214606-547-8965airmethodsky.com

Air-Evac Life Team1128 Old Middlefork Rd.Inez, Ky 41224304-687-5390lifeteam.net

Airgas Mid America902 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-0344airgas.com

Akers Family Chiropractic, PSC Inc.171 Hibbard St. Pikeville, KY 41501606- 432-8395

AKZ Cleaning Service696 Long Fork Marshalls Br.Virgie, KY 41572606-794-4673akzservices.com

Alcohol & SubstanceAbuse Professionals118 Caroline Avenue, Suite 2Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-0097asapnow.com

Alert Oil & Gas Co.PO Box 3456Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-7387

Alice Lloyd College100 Purpose Rd.Pippa Passes, KY 41844606-368-6200alc.edu

Alliance Coal, LLC771 Corporate Dr., Suite 1000Lexington, KY 40503859-224-7225www.arlp.com

Allstate - Deel &Johnson Agency Inc.3767 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4320

Alltech3031 Catnip Hill Rd.Nicholasville, KY 40356alltech.com

Alpha Natural ResourcesPO Box 16429Bristol, VA 24202276-619-4038alphanr.com

Alzheimer’s Association465 East High St., Suite 200Lexington, KY 40507859-266-5283alz.org/kyin

Ameritint & Graphic Designs1872 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9883

Amy’s Hallmark Shop4115 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-433-9070

Annie E. Young Cemetery4964 Chloe Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606- 432-1800thackermemorial.com

Anthem BCBS Medicaid13550 Triton Park Blvd.Louisville, KY 40204

Any Hour Fitness4573 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, Kentucky 41501606-432-2333anyhourfitness.com

Appalachian IndustrialAuthority917 Perry Park Rd.Hazard, KY 41701606-436-3158

Appalachian News-Express129 Caroline Ave.Pikeville, KY 41501

606-437-4054news-expressky.com

Appalachian PregnancyCare Center, Inc.193 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0700appalachianpregnancycare.org

Appalachian RegionalHealthcare, Inc.2285 Executive Dr., Suite 400Lexington, KY 40505859-226-2511arh.org

Appalachian Wireless -Hindman60 Communications LaneHindman, KY 41822606-785-9531appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless - Inez66 Park PlaceInez, KY 41224606-298-0645appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless - Ivel Main Office101 Technology TrailIvel, KY 41642606-477-2355appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless – Louisa102 Blairs WayLouisa, KY 41230606-638-3778appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless –Paintsville447 Mayo Plaza Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-0033appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless -Pikeville 14367 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 103Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-6111appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless -Pikeville 2143 Main St., Suite 101 Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0706appalachianwireless.com

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Appalachian Wireless -Prestonsburg59 Glynview PlazaPrestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-9739appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless -Salyersville447 Parkway Dr.Salyersville, KY 41465appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless -South Williamson166 Appalachian PlazaSouth Williamson, KY 41503 606-237-0044appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless -Southside Mall275 Mall Rd.South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-4333appalachianwireless.com

Appalachian Wireless - Whitesburg72 Whitesburg Plaza Whitesburg, KY 41858606-633-0245appalachianwireless.com

Applebee’s172 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-1815applebees.com

Aramark147 Sycamore St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-5032campusdish.com/en-US/CSMA/Pikeville/Catering/

AT&T Kentucky201 S. Third St.Richmond, KY 40475859-623-7972att.com

Baird & Baird, PSCPO Box 351 Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-6276bairdandbaird.com

Bank of Hindman1362 Hindman BypassHindman, KY 41822606-785-3158bankofhindman.com

BB&T164 Main St. Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-5500bbt.com

BB&T - Coal Run

4414 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4411bbt.com

BB&T - Ferrell’s Creek14793 Regina-Belcher HwyElkhorn City, KY 41522606-754-5025bbt.com

BB&T - Paintsville300 N. Mayo Trail Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-4045bbt.com

BB&T - Prestonsburg216 Glynnview PlazaPrestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-0192bbt.com

BB&T - Shelby Valley6758 US Hwy 23 S.Pikeville, KY 41501606-639-9975bbt.com

Bella Pooch - Pikeville3755 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-433-9879bella-pooch.com

Bella Pooch - Prestonsburg218 South Lake Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41635 bella-pooch.com

Bentley Carpet &Installation Inc.8825 US Hwy 23 S. Pikeville, KY 41501606-639-2004

Best Metal Roofing& Windows1950 S. Mayo Trail Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-6191

Best Western Plus - Louisa18199 Hwy 23Louisa, KY 41230606-638-3420book.bestwestern.com/best-western/US/KY/Louisa-hotels/BEST-WESTERN-PLUS-Lou-isa/Hotel-Overview.do?proper-tyCode=18107

Big Sandy AreaCommunity Action Program253 University Dr., Suite 101Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-2948bsacap.org

Big Sandy AreaDevelopment District110 Resource Court

Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-2374bigsandy.org

Big Sandy CO LP513 N. Mayo Trail, Unit BPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9600

Big Sandy Community& Technical CollegeOne Bert T. Combs Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-7332bigsandy.kctcs.edu

Big Sandy Community & Tech-nical College - PikevilleCampus 120 S. Riverfill Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-2060bigsandy.kctcs.edu

Big Sandy Dental Center180 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 111Pikeville, KY 41501606-509-8633

Big Sandy Health Care1709 KY Route 321, Suite 3Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-8546bshc.org

Birch Communications 274 Cassidy Blvd., Suite 102 Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-3000birch.com

Blackburn Insurance GroupInc. - Nationwide Insurance 147 Hibbard St. Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1077nationwide.com

Blue Raven Restaurant & Pub 211 Main St. Pikeville, KY 41501606-509-2583theblueraven.net

Bob Evans Restaurant4117 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-433-9054bobevans.com

Bradley and Spurlock311 N. Arnold Ave.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-4581

Brandeis Machinery &Supply Company 130 Mare Creek Rd.Stanville, KY 41659606-478-9201brandeismachinery.com

Breaks Interstate Park

627 Commission Circle Breaks, VA 24607276-865-4413breakspark.com

Brookshire Inn - PikevillePO Box 2788Pikeville, KY 41502606-433-0888brookshireinns.com

Brookshire Inn - Prestonsburg 85 Hal Rogers Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-889-0331brookshireinns.com

Brookside Dental Care306 Wrights Lane Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-874-9311kentuckysedationdentist.com

Brown Foodservice Inc.500 E. Clayton LaneLouisa, KY 41230606-638-1139brownfoodservice.com

Brown Glass, Inc. 86 Old Penny Rd. Virgie, KY 41572606-639-0656 http://www.brownglassinc.com

Bruce Walters FordLincoln Kia302 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9641brucewaltersford.net

BT Media Group, LLC229 Thacker Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-5554btmediagroup.com

Buckingham Place1023 Euclid Ave .Paintsville, KY 41240606-788-9186mounatinmanorofpaintsville.com

Busy Bee SepticSystems LTD5258 Zebulon HwyPikeville, KY 41501606-432-1233

C&C Carpet &Construction, LLC417 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1919


CAM Mining LLCPO Box 1169Pikeville, KY 41502606-432-3900rhinoenergyllc.com

Car City, LLC - InezRoute 40 Main St. Inez, KY606-298-3535carcityky.com

Car City, LLC - Louisa16386 US Hwy 23 Louisa, KY 41230888-568-4245carcityky.com

Cardinal Glass, Inc. 6101 Zebulon Hwy Pikeville, KY 41501606-631-1838cardinalglassinc.com

Care More Pharmacy151 Dorton Jenkins Hwy Dorton, KY 41520606-639-2273caremorepharmacy.net

Carl D. Perkins Apartments 200 Douglas Parkway Pikeville, KY 41501606-639-8280fcaffordablehousing.com/pikeville/carl-d-perkins

Carl D. Perkins JobCorps Center478 Meadows Branch Rd.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-433-2256jobcorps.org

Carpet Mine1420 S.Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-7657

Casebolt Broadcasting& Marketing384 S. Mayo Trail Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-1198

Castle Jewelry & Gifts4541 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4653castlesjewelry.com

CBL Mining, LLC67 Lonesome Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-1525

Cedar Creek Assisted Living156 Winston Dr. Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8243phsk.org/campuses/pikeville

CEDAR, Inc.PO Box 2152Pikeville, KY 41502606-477-3456cedarinc.org

Center for RegionalEngagement, MoreheadState University320 University St. Morehead, KY 40351606-783-9327moreheadstate.edu/engagement

Central Brace &Prosthetics, Inc.171 Hibbard St., Suite 3 Pikeville, KY 41501606-509-0612centralbrace.com

Check Point Food & FuelPO Box 1005 Phelps, KY 41553606-437-1500

Cheyenne Enterprises, Inc.945 Williams ForkDana, KY 41615606-478-1140

Childers Oil CompanyPO Box 430Whitesburg, KY 41858606-633-2525doublekwik.com

Christian Appalachian Project 6550 S. KY Route 321PO Box 459Hagerhill, KY 41222859-269-0635chrisapp.org

Cindy C. Smith, DMD157 Hibbard St. Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0163

Citizens National Bank - Allen6474 Route 1428Allen, KY 41601606-886-4000cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -Ashland855 Central Ave .Ashland, KY 41105606-920-7300cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -CentrePointe50 Franklin CornerPrestonsburg, KY 41501606-886-4000cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -

Grayson167 S. Carol Malone Blvd.Grayson, KY 41143866-462-2265cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -Main Branch & Offices620 Broadway St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-4001cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -Mayo Plaza333 Mayo PlazaPaintsville, KY 41240866-462-2265cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -McDowell9674 Route 122McDowell, KY 41647606-886-4000cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -Pikeville Branch247 Hambley Blvd. Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-4000cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -Russell320 Russell Rd.Russell, KY 41101606-920-7300cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -Salyersville615 East Mtn. ParkwaySalyersville, KY 41465606-349-8800cnbonline.com

Citizens National Bank -Weddington Plaza Branch4367 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 102Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-7188cnbonline.com

City of Coal Run Village81 Church St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6032coalrun.ky.gov

City of Pikeville243 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-5100cityofpikeville.com

City of SalyersvillePO Box 640Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-2409

City of SalyersvilleRenaissance Program, Inc. 100 West Maple St.Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-7942salyersvillerenaissance.com

Classic Printing113 Caroline Ave., Suite 1Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-9894go-classic.com

Classic Realty693 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4700classicrealtyky.com

Clintwood Elkhorn Mining23958 State Hwy 194 E.Fedscreek, KY 41524606-835-4006tecocoal.com/ourbusinesses/clintwood

Coal Operators &Associates, Inc.PO Box 3158Pikeville, KY 41502606-432-2161miningusa.com/coa/

Coats For KidsPO Box 4Pikeville, KY 41502606-424-0157coatsforkidsfoundation.com

Collins & Love, CPA587 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4171collinsandlove.com

Community Auto &Repair Services369 Route 610 West Virgie, KY 41572606-639-4511

Community Funeral Home4902 Zebulon HwyPikeville, KY 41501606-437-1991communityfuneralhomeky.com

Community Trust Bank346 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-1414ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Allen6424 KY Route 1428Allen, KY 41601606-874-0408ctbi.com

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Community Trust Bank -Downtown Whitesburg155 Main St. Whitesburg, KY 41858606-633-0161ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Elkhorn City211 Russell St.Elkhorn City, KY 41522606-754-5589ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Isom56 Isom PlazaIsom, KY 41826606-633-5995ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Jenkins9505 Hwy 805, Suite A Jenkins, KY 41537606-832-2477ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Knott County107 W. Main St.Hindman, KY 41822606-785-5095ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Main St. Pikeville137 Main St. #4Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-3326ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Marrowbone10579 Regina Belcher HwyMarrowbone, KY 41522606-754-4462ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Mouthcard32 N. Levisa Rd. Mouthcard, KY 41548606-835-4907ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Neon1001 Hwy 317Neon, KY 41840606-855-4435ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Paintsville Walmart470 N. Mayo TrailPaintsville, KY 41240606-788-9934ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Phelps38720 State Hwy 194 E.Phelps, KY 41553

606-456-8701ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Pikeville Walmart254 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-0048ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Prestonsburg161 South Lake Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-2382ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Town Mountain105 Northgate Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-3323ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Tug Valley28160 US Hwy 119South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-6051ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -Virgie1056 KY Hwy 610 W.Virgie, KY 41572606-639-4451ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank - Weddington Plaza4205 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4529ctbi.com

Community Trust Bank -West Whitesburg24 Parkway Plaza LoopWhitesburg, KY 41858606-633-4532ctbi.com

Cooley Accounting &Tax Services, Inc.11 Northwood Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-0101

Cooley Medical - Pikeville 255 Church St., Suite 105Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0055cooleymedical.com

Cooley Medical - Prestonsburg 1184 South Lake Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-9267cooleymedical.com

Country Music HighwayArts, Inc.

144 Middle Br.McDowell, KY 41647606-377-0815cmharts.webs.com

Creative Lighting & Bath135 Hibbard St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-0751

Creative Promotions605 Chloe Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-9111mynameonthat.com

Creg Damron Furniture199 Hibbard St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0595

Crossrock Drilling, LLC1539 Stone Coal Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-6970

Dairy Queen - SalyersvilleRoute 114 E. Mtn. ParkwaySalyersville, KY 41465606-349-1616

Daniel Boone Motor Inn150 Weddington Branch Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0365

Daryle M. Ronning, PSC149 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8175

Debra R. Bailey, MD,FAAP, PSC419 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 202Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1511baileymd.net

Delta Supply Heating& Cooling455 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0787

Deskins Motor Company, Inc. 100 Deskins Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1300deskinsmotors.com

Discover DowntownMiddlesboro21st and LothburyMiddlesboro, KY 40965606-248-6155downtownmiddlesboro.org

DNV GL EnergyServices USA, Inc.31 Charles Dr.Butler, KY 41006606-205-6110

Drug Testing Centersof America705 Broadway, Suite 2Paintsville, KY 41240606-788-8378drugtestingcenters.com

Dynamic Physical Therapy Associates126 Trivette Dr.Uniplex Building, Suite 202Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0058

E-Z Pay Auto Sales5373 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-9800

East KentuckyBroadcasting PO Box 2200Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-4051ekbradio.com

East Kentucky Oraland Maxillofacial Surgery 129 Loraine St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-9639ekyoms.com

East Kentucky Small Business Development Center3455 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 4Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5848

East KY Support Services Inc.35 Reel View Dr .Jeremiah, KY 41826606-633-7272eastkentuckysupportservices.com

Eastern Air Flow LLC5721 KY Route 404David, KY 41616606-791-4273easternairflow.com

Eastern KentuckyExposition Center126 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-444-5500eastkyexpo.com

Eastern Telephone &Technologies Company106 Power Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0043ettky.com

Economy Drug Co., Inc.180 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 115Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-7333economydrug.com


Edward Jones - A.O. Onkst207 Hibbard St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0657edwardjones.com

Edward Jones - JC Hensley 3767 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 2Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-9175edwardjones.com

EKCEP, Inc.941 N. Main St.Hazard, KY 41701606-436-5751ekcep.org

El Azul Grande - Pikeville238 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-7200

El Azul Grande - Prestonsburg134 Collins CirclePrestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-8300

Electric Line Company343 New Camp Rd.South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-7370

Elliott Supply & Glass, Inc.PO Box 3038Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-7368elliottcompanies.com

EQT Corporation32 Pluma Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-2900eqt.com

Eric Mills Attorney at Law86 W. Main St.Inez, KY 41224606-298-0505ericmills.com

Eruption Technologies219 Scott Ave., Suite 3Pikeville, KY 41501606-477-5150eruptiontech.com

Fairway Outdoor Advertising1749 US Hwy 23 N.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-459-5959fairwayoutdoor.com

Faith Electrical, LLC100 Rose St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-478-3392faithelectricalllc.com

Faith Pharmacy, Inc.140 Adams Ln., Suite 500Pikeville, KY 41501

606-509-6337

Family Eye CareProfessionals4219 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-3576familyeyecarepros.com

Farley Tire and Auto Repair5351 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-637-9140

Fast Change Lube& Oil, Inc. - Inez324 W. Main St.Inez, KY 41224606-298-0764fastchangeonline.com

Fast Change Lube &Oil, Inc. - Louisa102 Dennison Dr .Louisa, KY 41230606-673-3347fastchangeonline.com

Fast Change Lube &Oil, Inc. - Paintsville501-A N. Mayo TrailPaintsville, KY 41240606-788-9900fastchangeonline.com

Fast Change Lube &Oil, Inc. - Pikeville3841 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-1471fastchangeonline.com

Fast Change Lube &Oil, Inc. - Prestonsburg41 Glenview PlazaPrestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-6794fastchangeonline.com

Fast Change Lube &Oil, Inc. - South Williamson2900 US 119 N.South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-6355fastchangeonline.com

Ferrellgas3367 Collins HwyPikeville, KY 41501606-639-9946ferrellgas.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Betsy Layne11155 S. US 23Betsy Layne, KY 41605606-478-9596myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Coal Run3822 N. Mayo Trail

Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6231myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Inez87 Main St.Inez, KY 41224606-298-3584myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Main Office311 N. Arnold Ave. Suite 100Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-4493myfcbank.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Martin12433 Main St.Martin, KY 41649606-285-3266myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Northside838 North Lake Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-4852myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank -Paintsville Downtown232 Main St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-3719myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Paintsville Mayo Plaza601 N. Mayo TrailPaintsville, KY 41240606-789-3541myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Pikeville262 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1619myfcb.com

First Commonwealth Bank - Salyersville Parkway230 E. Mtn. ParkwaySalyersville, KY 41465606-349-7520myfcb.com

First National Bank109 Prater Place, Suite 100Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5340fnbwilliamson.com

Fishy Business Paylake Inc.8373 State Hwy 194 W.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-9026

Fleming Neon Water Co.

PO Box 66Neon, KY 41840606-855-7916

Food City - Hazard50 Morton Blvd.Hazard, KY 41702606-436-8204foodcity.com

Food City - Louisa70 Business US 23 N.Louisa, KY 41230606-638-3434foodcity.com

Food City - Paintsville330 N. Mayo TrailPaintsville, KY 41240606-789-8860foodcity.com

Food City - Prestonsburg 429 University Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-889-9375foodcity.com

Food City - PikevilleStore #458215 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8150foodcity.com

Food City - ShelbianaStore #4572138 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-0796foodcity.com

Foothills Broadband1621 KY Route 40 W.Staffordsville, KY 41256606-297-9102foothills.net

Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky5864 Kentucky Hwy 28PO Box 310Chavies, KY 41727606-439-1357appalachianky.org

Freedom Ford and Honda45 Malcom D. Layne Dr. Ivel, KY 41642606-200-3190nothinglikefreedom.com

Frost Brown Todd400 W. Market St., Floor 32Louisville, KY 40202502-568-0288frostbrowntodd.com

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Gary C. Johnson, PSCLaw OfficePO Box 231Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-4002garycjohnson.com

Gary Lowe - State FarmInsurance3780 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 101Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-4877garylowe.net

Gateway SHRMPO Box 160Harold, KY 41635606-479-6355

Gatti’s of Pikeville/Gattitown 274 Cassidy Blvd. Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6211gattispizzapikeville.com

Gearheart Communications PO Box 159Harold, KY 41635606-478-9401gearheart.com

Gearheart Communications/Inter Mountain CablePO Box 159Harold, KY 41635606-479-6134

Gerri and Ken Kinder1845 Upper Chloe Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0549

Glenn Shepard Seminars6953 Charlotte Pike,Suites 303 & 403Nashville, TN 37209615-353-7125GlennShepard.com

Goodwill Industries - Louisa220 Townhill Rd.Louisa, KY 41230606-638-0515goodwillhunting.org

Goodwill Industries - Pikeville4493 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-3113goodwillhunting.org

Green Meadow Country Club 6887 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-3004greenmeadowcountryclub.com

Greg’s Custom Audio, Video& Car Stereo274 Cassidy Blvd., Suite 101Pikeville, KY 41501

606-432-1132gregsavc.com

GreyBella Home Furnishings274 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4343

Hall-Clark InsuranceAgency, Inc.132 South Lake Dr., Suite 101Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-2318hall-clark.com

Hampton Inn831 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8181hamptoninn3.hilton.com

Harley Davidson of Pikeville 114 Harley Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0911hdofpikeville.com

Harris, Akers &Associates, LLC1144 S. Mayo Trail, Suite 201Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0808

Hazard ARH RegionalMedical Center100 Medical Center Dr.Hazard, KY 41701606-439-6600arh.org/locations/hazard

Heartland Communications Consultants, Inc.3 Public SquareElizabethtown, KY 42701270-872-8001heartlandcommunicate.com

Heavenly Treasures233 Cassidy Blvd., Suite 5Pikeville, KY 41501606-509-4659

Hefners Jewelers, Inc.4169 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-433-9000hefners.com

Hidden Styles Salon& Tanning3767 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 1Pikeville, KY 41501606-899-1974

Hillbilly Christmas In July, Inc.3591 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-433-5812hillbillychristmasinjuly.org

Hilton Garden Inn - Pikeville849 Hambley Blvd.

Pikeville, KY 41501606-766-2000pikeville.hgi.com

Hobby Lobby120 Justice Way, Unit 107Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-7405hobbylobby.com

Holly Hills Mall Restaurant& Catering92 Holly Hills Mall Rd.Hindman, KY 41822606-785-0909

Home Builders of Eastern KY154 Evergreen Ln.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8754hbaeky.com

Hospice of the Bluegrass57 Dennis Standlin MD CoveHazard, KY 41701606-437-3700hospicebg.org

Housing Authorityof Pikeville748 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8124hapky.org

Humana CareSource 10200 Forest Green Blvd.Louisville, KY 40223606-594-0751caresource.com/members/kentucky/

Humana Inc.300 West Vine St.Lexington, KY 40507502-476-1281humana.com

Hutch Chevrolet Buick GMC 1004 Third St. Paintsville, KY 41240606-297-4066hutchchevrolet.com

Hylton Sales & RentalPO Box 203Ivel, KY 41642606-478-8900hyltonsalesllc.com

ICC Global Hosting229 West Court St.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-8447iccgh.com

Indian Hills Wines& Spirits, Inc.2150 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-433-1935

Infintech - Innovative Financial Services 4010 Executive Park Dr.,Suite 430Cincinnati, OH 45241859-539-4574infintechllc.com

InSite Consulting 117 S. Main St.Greer, SC 29652864-334-1886insiteconsultinggroup.com

J & M Monitoring, Inc.251 Tollage CreekPikeville, KY 41501606-432-1910jmmonitoring.com

J&J Construction555 Coon BranchPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9611jandjconstructionky.com

J.B.K. Builders377 Left Fork Island CreekPikeville, KY 41501606-794-1345

James Brown99 Coal Run Hill Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1381

Jeff Keener117 Second St., Apt. 4Pikeville, KY 41501

Jennifer Reynolds - StateFarm Insurance145 Weddington Br. Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5230jenniferreynoldsinsurance.com

Jenny Wiley State Resort Park 419 Jenny Wiley Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-889-1790kentuckystateparks.reserveamerica.com/ky/Jenny_Wiley_State_Resort_Park

Jerry Adkins MobileHome Sales2741 US Hwy 23 S.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8810jerryadkinshomes.com

Jet Coal CompanyPO Box 276Virgie, KY 41572606-639-2505

Jiffy Dry Cleaners & Tanning 185 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501 606-437-4158


Jigsaw Enterprises, LLC190 Left Fork Island CreekPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9090

Johnson Industries, Inc.101 Pine Fork Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-639-2029johnsonindustries.com

Johnson Law Firm229 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-4488billyjohnsonlaw.com

Johnson Surveillance, LLC 120 High St.Virgie, KY 41572606-509-2288johnsoncctv.com

Jones Oil Company, Inc67 Lonesome Cedar Ln.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5724jonesoilco.com

Jones, Walters, Turner& Shelton208 Second St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-1167

Joshua S. Leonard, DMD, PSC306 Hospital Dr., Suite 203B South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-9983joshleonarddmd.com

Judi’s Place for Kids128 S. College St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-7447judisplace.org

Justice Hardware3139 E. Shelbiana Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-3136

JW Call & Son Funeral Home 703 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6228jwcallfuneralhome.com

Karen’s Place125 S. Main Cross St.Louisa, KY 41230606-244-0975karensplace.com

Kelley Galloway & Co., PCS PO Box 3067Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-7389kelleygalloway.com

Kellogg Company -

Pikeville Plant3321 State Hwy 194 E.Kimper, KY 41539606-631-9365kelloggs.com

Kentucky BerwindLand CompanyPO Box 20Belcher, KY 41513606-754-5051

Kentucky Communityof Sharing322 South JeffersonLouisa, KY 41230304-840-3343

Kentucky Frontier Gas, LLC 2963 KY Route 321 W.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-2431kyfrontiergas.com

Kentucky Office ofVocational Rehabilitation126 Trivette Dr., UniplexBldg., Suite 302 Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-7618ovr.ky.gov

Kentucky Power3249 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501800-572-1113kentuckypower.com

Kentucky Power -Big Sandy Plant23000 Hwy 23Louisa, KY 41230606-686-1401aep.com

KFC - South Mayo Trail110 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-3246tristatekfc.com

KFC - Weddington Branch 28 Weddington Branch Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0741tristatekfc.com

Kid’s World Child Care& Learning Center231 Church St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1523

Kimberlain I.T. Services, Inc.158 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 101Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6866kitsinc.com

King’s DaughtersMedical Center

5425 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 202Pikeville, KY 41501606- 432-2269kdmc.com

King’s DaughtersMedical Center1279 Old Abbott Mtn. Rd.Prestonsburg, KY 42501606-886-0892kdmc.com

Kinzer DrillingPO Box 460Allen, KY 41601606-874-8041kinzerdrilling.com

Kiwanis of PikevillePO Box 462Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-3320

KSK Management, Inc.PO Box 1879Ashland, KY 41105606-324-5421tristatekfc.com

L.B. Schmidt &Associates, LLC6316 Innisbrook Dr.Prospect , KY 40059502-292-2898lbschmidt.com

L.M. Productions28678 US Hwy 119South Williamson, KY 41503304-730-0723

Landmark Inn190 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-2545landmarkpikeville.com

Law Offices of Johnson Crump161 2nd St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-3400johnsoncrump.com

Lawrence County Tourism Commission315 E. Madison St.Louisa, KY 41230606-638-0078lawrencecokytourism.com

Laytent Energy547 Cedar Creek Rd., Unit A2Pikeville, KY 415011-844-523-8368laytentenergy.com

Lee Graphics Printing and Office Supplies, Inc.143 Mesa Dr.St. Albans, WV 25177304-755-1002

Lee’s Famous Recipe114 East Mtn. ParkwaySalyersville, KY 41465606-349-3626

Lendmark Financial Services4414 N. Mayo Trail, Suite BPikeville, KY 41501606-433-0227lendmarkfinancial.com

Leslie Equipment Company195 Industrial Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0321lec1.com

Lindsey Wilson College School of Professional Counseling11105 US Hwy 23 S.,Suite 108Betsy Layne, KY 41605606-478-5922lindsey.edu

Long John Silvers - Mayo Trail176 S. Mayo CirclePikeville, KY 41501606-432-3339ljsilvers.com

Long TruckingPO Box 75Regina, KY 41559606-754-8964

Louisa Coca-ColaBottling Co., Inc.416 N. Clay Ave.Louisa, KY 41230606-638-4554

Lowe’s of Pikeville183 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0020lowes.com

Lucas & Son FuneralHome, Inc.PO Box 2685Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-0044lucasandsonfh.com

Lynette Schindler,CPA, PSC130 Scott Ave.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1025

M&M PhotographyPO Box 533Hindman, KY 41822606-785-0558

Magnolia Partners, LLC300 Lakewood Dr.Grayson, KY 41143606-474-2214

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Manpower Temporary Services311 N. Arnold Ave., Suite 503Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-889-9710us.manpower.com

March of Dimes -Bluegrass Division207 E. Reynolds Rd., Suite 110Lexington, KY 40517859-402-1710marchofdimes.com/kentucky

Martins Peterbilt of Pikeville101 Industrial Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1777martinspeterbilt.com

Marvin Bush, DMD142 Mayo Circle, Suite 100Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0187pikevillesmiles.com

Marwood Land Company, Inc.164 S. Mayo Trail, Suite 1Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-1447

Maverick Insurance Group LLC1214 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 100Pikeville, KY 41501606-605-0002maverickinsures.com

Maynard InsuranceAgency, Inc.85 Blackburn St.Betsy Layne, KY 41605606-478-9500maynardins.com

McCoy Motorsports559 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-0083tobefast.com

McDonalds - 305 N. Mayo Paintsville305 N. Mayo TrailPaintsville, KY 41240606-789-6989mcdonalds.com

McDonalds - 470 N. Mayo Paintsville470 N. Mayo TrailPaintsville, KY 41240606-789-3911mcdonalds.com

McDonalds – Inez1960 Blacklog Rd.Inez, KY 41224606-298-7997mcdonalds.com

McDonalds – Louisa61 Falls Creek Dr.

Louisa, KY 41230606-638-3336mcdonalds.com

McDonalds – Martin12575 Main St.Martin, KY 41649606-285-0723mcdonalds.com

McDonalds - N. Lake Dr.Prestonsburg 1178 N. Lake Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-1223mcdonalds.com

McDonalds – Salyersville222 E. Mtn. Parkway Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-1611mcdonalds.com

McDonalds - Shoppers Path Prestonsburg 30 Shoppers PathPrestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-3442mcdonalds.com

McDonalds - Cassidy Blvd.190 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8848mcdonalds.com

McDonalds - Coal Run3683 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4395mcdonalds.com

McDonalds - South Williamson385 Southside Mall Rd.South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-5696mcdonalds.com

McDonalds of East Kentucky1104 Third St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-297-7000mcdonalds.com

McDowell ARH9879 KY 122McDowell, KY 41647606-377-3400arh.org

MCNB353 Hambley Blvd., Suite 1Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-7177mcnbbanks.com

Mellowbrook Apartments7 Stacy St.Harold, KY 41635606-478-8000mellowbrookproperties.com

Merrill Lynch109 Prater Place, Suite 200Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-2200ml.com

Michael Spears, CPA, PSC107 S. Arnold Ave. Suite 201Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-8040

Mickey’s Menagerie223 Second St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5373mickeysmenagerie.com

Mona’s Creative Catering278 Town Mtn. Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6662

Mother Nature SpringWater, Inc.8862 Elkhorn Creek Rd.Ashcamp, KY 41512606-754-5756

Mountain Association forCommunity EconomicDevelopment224 Main St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-264-3101maced.org

Mountain Companies2257 Executive Dr.Lexington, KY 40583859-299-7001

Mountain ComprehensiveCare Center, Inc.104 S. Front Ave.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-8572mtcomp.org

Mountain Music Exchange229 Thacker Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-5554mountainmusicexchange.com

Mountain View HealthCare Center945 W. Russell St.Elkhorn City, KY 41522606-754-4134lcca.com/39

Mountain Water District6332 Zebulon HwyPikeville, KY 41501606-631-6349mountainwaterdistrictky.com

My Hometown Mortgage Corp.3780 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-6832

My Sweet Treats & More, LLC5171 N. Mayo Trail, Unit APikeville, KY 41501606-432-8569

NAPA Auto Parts309 W. Union Rd.Calhoun, GA 30701770-843-9205MyNAPA.com

Narco Inc.Cannelton Hollow Rd.Smithers, WV 25186304-442-5656narco1sc.com

National College50 National College Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-478-7200national-college.edu

Nova Pharmacy1330 S. Mayo Trail, Suite 102Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-2274

Office Depot4333 Brookridge Dr.Lexington, KY 40515859-608-3864bsd.officedepot.com

Office of Employmentand Training138 College St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-7721oet.ky.gov

On Site Drug Screening, Inc.180 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 109Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-7477

Orange Leaf – Pikeville171 Hibbard St., Suite 2 Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-5588facebook.com/pages/Orange-Leaf-Pikeville/431449233632915

Origami Owl - PaulaMcCoy-Hatfield(Independent Designer)115 Varney Dr.Toler, KY 41514606-353-7340paulamccoyhatfield.origamiowl.com

P & J Trailer Sales LLC1652 N. US 23Paintsville, KY 41240606-791-9631pandjtrailers.com


Page-3’s GameZone547 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-9403p3gz.com

Paintsville Lake State Park1551 KY Route 2275Staffordsville, KY 41256606-297-8486park.ky.gov

Paintsville TourismCommission100 Staves Branch Rd.Paintsville, KY 41240800-542-5790visitpaintsvilleky.com

Parkview Manor &Rehab Center200 Nursing Home Lane Pikeville, KY 41501606-639-4840

Passport Health Plan5100 Commerce Crossings Dr.Louisville, KY 40229502-585-7900passporthealthplan.com

Peking – Downtown205 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-9888

Peking - HibachiJapanese Steakhouse 4539 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606- 437-6788

Peking - Coal Run4533 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-6788

Penn Station244 Cassidy Blvd., Suite 100Pikeville, KY 41501606-509-7366penn-station.com

Peoples Gas375 North Shore Dr.,Suite 600Pittsburgh, PA 15212412-208-6614peoples-gas.com

Peoples InsuranceAgency, LLC233 Cassidy Blvd., Suite 2Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-7361pebo.com

Pepsi Beverages Company3591 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-6271

pepsi.com

Perry Distributors, Inc.540 Oakhurst Ave.Hazard, KY 41701606-436-3665perrydistributors.com

Picture Perfect PhotoBooth KY111 Burke CourtPrestonsburg, KY 41653606-233-1259pictureperfectphotoboothky.com

Pig in a Poke – Pikeville130 Mayo CirclePikeville, KY 41501606-437-9511piginapokebbq.com

Pig In A Poke - Prestonsburg341 University Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-889-9119 piginapokebbq.com

Pike County Boardof Education316 S. Mayo Trail Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-7700pike.kyschools.us

Pike County Fiscal Court146 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-6247

Pike County Housing AuthorityPO Box 1468Pikeville, KY 41502606-432-4178

Pike County Physical Therapy Clinic, PSC – Pikeville419 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 108Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8782

Pike County PublicLibrary District119 College St., Suite 3Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-9977informationplace.org

Pike County Relay For Life4324 13th St.Ashland, KY 41102606-789-6820relayforlife.org/pikeky

Pike County Tourism CVB781 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5063tourpikecounty.com

Pike County UK Cooperative Extension Service

148 Trivette Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-2534pike.ca.uky.edu

Pike-Letcher Land Company6920 Hwy 610 W.Myra, KY 41537606-639-9711tecocoal.com/ourbusinesses/pikeletcher

Pike TV119 College St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-444-5129piketv.com

Pike Villa Apartments130 Clair Ln., Suite 803Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-3286

Pikeville Area Family YMCA424 Bob Amos Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-9622pikevilleymca.org

Pikeville City Tourism and Convention Commission126 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-444-5500visitpikeville.com

Pikeville Coca-Cola311 Industrial Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-7280coca-cola.com

Pikeville Dermatology& Cosmetic Center108 N Auxier Ave.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-9106pikevilledermatology.net

Pikeville High School Alumni Association and Foundation120 Championship Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0185phs.pikeville.kyschools.us

Pikeville Historic MansionBed & Breakfast179 College St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-509-0296pikevillehistoricmansion.com

Pikeville Independent Schools148 Second St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8161pikeville.kyschools.us

Pikeville Main Street Program243 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501

606-444-5281cityofpikeville.com

Pikeville Medical Center911 Bypass Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-3500pikevillehospital.org

Pikeville Mini Storage278 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9974

Pikeville Radiology, PLLC161 College St., Suite 1Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1357

Pikeville RV Sales Inc.7349 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-478-5430pikerv.com

Premier Elkhorn6920 Hwy 610 W.Myra, KY 41549 tecocoal.com/ourbusinesses/premier

Premiere Pond & Spa1476 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-7727hotspringpikeville.com

Professional BusinessProducts, Inc.1454 Robert C. Byrd Dr.Crab Orchard, WV 25827606-432-0959gopbpinc.com

Pure Bliss Salon1472 S. Mayo Trail, Unit 1Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-3236facebook.com/pages/Pure-Bliss-Salon/1493767604225237

Quality Cash Register301 United Ct., Suite 8Lexington, KY 40509859-225-2301qcrpos.com

Quality Foods5284 Collins HwyRobinson Creek, KY 41560606-639-2560

Quinco, Inc.PO Box 194Pikeville, KY 41502606-437-7915

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RE/MAX Legacy Group3780 N. Mayo Trail, Suite 202Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1955remax.com

Redd, Brown & Williams – Louisa110 South Clay St.Louisa, KY 41230606-638-4449rbandw.com

Redd, Brown & Williams – Paintsville201 Bridge St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-8119rbandw.com

Redd, Brown & Williams – Prestonsburg253 University Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-3939rbandw.com

Redd, Brown & WilliamsReal Estate Services685 N. Mayo Trail US 23 N.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-2333rbandw.com

Reed’s Home Decor & Gifts275 Mall Rd., Suite 11ASouth Williamson, KY 41503606-237-0013

Reed’s Spray Foam Insulation275 Mall Rd., Suite 11ASouth Williamson, KY 41503606-237-0013reedssprayfoam.com

RENEW Addiction Treatment4963 US Hwy 23 N.,Suite 121Ivel, KY 41642606-653-1505renewtreatment.com

Rental Pro7241 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-478-7368

Ridge Cliff Apartments680 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8304

Road Tested Tire & Auto121 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-5487

Roasted Coffee and Cafe787 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-253-3035roastedcoffeeandcafe.com

Roger Ratliff Apartment Rentals101 Hibbard St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-4936

Rosalind Stanley316 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-433-9247kyschools.us

Rotary of PikevillePO Box 988Pikeville, KY 41502pikevillerotaryclub.org

Russell Fork Pharmacy10363 Regina Belcher HwyElkhorn, KY 41522606-754-7085

Russell Fork WhiteWater AdventurePO Box 434Big Rock, VA 24603276-530-7044

RX Discount Pharmacy500 Morton Blvd.Hazard, KY 41701606-436-2407rxdiscountpharmacyky.com

Sandy Valley Habitatfor Humanity137 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-4011sandyvalleyhabitat.org

Saver Group, Inc.669 KY Hwy 610 W.Virgie, KY 41572270-465-8675savergroup.com

Scholar House ofCentral Appalachia127 Saad Ave.Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-5250

Schooley Mitchell of Louisa1057 Meadowbrook Ln.Louisa, KY 41230606-483-3345schooleymitchell.com/lmbalaklaw

Self Refind116 N. First St.Danville, KY 40422866-755-4258selfrefind.com

Servpro of Pike, Floyd,& Knott Counties810 S. Lake Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-3826servpro.com

Sharp Smiles Dentistry, Inc.4159 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-0101sharpsmilesdentistry.com

Tis The Season, LLC180 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 106Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1300

Sherwin Williams4223 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-4355sherwinwilliams.com

Shirt Gallery1000 Arkansas Creek Rd.Martin, KY 41649800-442-2133shirtgallery.net

Shoe-Inn Family Footwear233 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-877-1709shoeinn.net

Shoney’s of Pikeville4554 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-218-1123facebook.com/pages/Shoneys-of-Pikeville/341710009196372

Shred-All DocumentsPO Box 2894Pikeville, KY 41502606-432-1166shredalldocuments.com

Shurtleff’s Sanitary Laundry136 Central Ave.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-7381

Signature HealthCAREof Pikeville260 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-7327shcofpikeville.com

SimplexGrinnell2800 7th Ave., Suite 102Charleston, WV 25387540-389-7276simplexgrinnell.com

SNF - Flomin Coal5079 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-1535

SOAR243 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-5127soar-ky.org

Sound House Music, Inc.4163 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-4155soundhousemusic.com

Southeast KentuckyChamber of Commerce178 College St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5504sekchamber.com

Speedy Cash- Harlan2415 W. Hwy 72Harlan, KY 40831606-573-5000

Speedy Cash- Hazard123 Corporate Dr., Suite 103Hazard, KY 41701606-439-5050

Speedy Cash- Jackson220 Hwy 15 S.Jackson, KY 41339606-666-7007

Speedy Cash- Main Location3921 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9100

Speedy Cash- Paintsville 329 Broadway St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-3835

Speedy Cash- PrestonsburgPO Box 896Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-874-1160speedycashky.com

Speedy Cash- S. Mayo Trail208 S. Mayo Trail, Box 9 Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-9105

Speedy Cash- Salyersville460 Allen Dr.Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-4700

Speedy Cash - West Liberty577 Main St.West Liberty, KY 41472606-743-9566

Speedy Cash – Whitesburg1181 Hwy 119 N.Whitesburg, KY 41858606-633-0986

Staples238 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1161staples.com


State Electric &Supply Company122 Johnson St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-3163stateelectric.com

Steak ‘N Shake ofPikeville, Inc.210 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-509-3663

Stonecrest Golf Course918 Clubhouse Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-1006stonecrestgolfcourse.com

Storage Rentals of America144 Cowpen Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501800-457-5678storagerentalsofamerica.com

Stratton Law Firm, PSC111 Pike St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-7800shmlaw.com

Subway – Pikeville207 Hibbard St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-0009subway.com

Suddenlink Communications2214 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501800-972-5757suddenlink.com

Summit Engineering131 Summit Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1447summit-engr.com

Super Dollar - Pikeville234 Town Mtn. Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-2505superdollarstores.com

Super Dollar – Prestonsburg81 Glyn View PlazaPrestonsburg, KY 41653606-889-2754superdollarstores.com

T. Edwin ColemanP O Box 2009Pikeville, KY 41502

Tangles3915 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-4247

Teach For America –

Appalachia470 Main St., Suite 1Hazard, KY 41701606-436-6000teachforamerica.org/where-we-work/appalachia

Tech Medical Center95 Weddington Branch Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-454-8324facebook.com/techmedicalcenter

Techpoint7912 KY Route 114Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-791-6221www.techpointky.com

Teco Coal Company200 Allison Blvd.Corbin, KY 40701606-523-4444tecocoal.com

Texas Roadhouse130 Justice Way Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0008texasroadhouse.com

Thacker Funeral Home1118 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-7353thackermemorial.com

Thacker Memorial, Inc.4964 Chloe Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1800thackermemorial.com

The Absolute Leader144 Horne Br.Staffordsville, Kentucky 41256606-367-4986theabsoluteleader.com

The Benefits FirmPO Box 2606Pikeville, KY 41502606-477-0383thebenefitsfirm.com

The Elite Agency, Inc.5 Village St., Suite 2Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-7695eliteky.com

The Leukemia &Lymphoma Society301 E. Main St., Suite 100Louisville, KY 40202502-584-8490lls.org/ky

The Men’s Corner4135 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501

606-433-1707

The UPS Store4145 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-0546pikeville-ky-4301.theupsstorelocal.com

The Wells Group, LLC1731 W. Shelbiana Rd.Shelbiana, KY 41562606-437-4034

Therapeutic CounselingServices384 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-5177

Three Rivers Medical Center2485 Hwy 644Louisa, KY 41230606-638-9451threeriversmedicalcenter.com

Tim Short Superstore2655 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-1716

Todd Case Trucking210 Raven Rock Fork Rd.Louisa, KY 41230606-686-2344

Tom E. Hartsock DMD, MS161 College St., Suite 3Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-3603hartsockorthodontics.com

Tosha’s Sweet Shoppe475 Hambley Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-369-6625

Tractor Supply – Louisa16230 US Hwy 23Louisa, KY 41230606-673-1141tractorsupply.com

Tractor Supply – Paintsville980 3rd St.Paintsville, KY 41240606-297-5570tractorsupply.com

Tractor Supply – Pikeville164 Lee Ave.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0890tractorsupply.com

Tractor Supply -South Williamson169 Southside Mall Rd.South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-0189tractorsupply.com

Transamerica Agency Network

164 Main St., Suite 300Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-9344transamerica.com

Treap Contracting, Inc.33 Evergreen Ln.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8507treapcontractinginc.com

Tug Valley Road Runners Club201 Central Ave.South Williamson, KY 41503606-625-5092hatfieldmccoymarathon.com

Unique Boutique of Pikeville205 Hibbard St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-5008uniqueboutiqueky.com

Unisign Corporation, Inc.PO Box 76Ivel, KY 41642606-478-6777

Unison Insurance Group, Inc.9790 Hwy 15Isom, KY 41824606-632-3600

UNITE Pike, Inc.PO Box 363Pikeville, KY 41502606-433-9329unitepike.com

United Helping Handsof Pikeville, Inc.5279 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-1349

United Medical Group &East KY After Hours Clinic50 Weddington Br. Rd.,Suite CPikeville, KY 41501606-437-2400unmedpike.com

University of Pikeville147 Sycamore St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-218-5250www.upike.edu

Unshackled CounselingServices, PLLC155 Little CreekPikeville, KY 41501606-213-7830

US Army Recruiting Station120 Pike St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6042goarmy.com

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US Bank - Elkhorn City114 W. Russell St.Elkhorn City, KY 41522606-754-5082usbank.com

US Bank - Johns Creek9782 Meta HwyPikeville, KY 41501606-631-1593usbank.com

US Bank – Martin12579 Main St.Martin, KY 41649606-285-6300usbank.com

US Bank – North Mayo Trail3663 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-2770usbank.com

US Bank – Pikeville Main St.131 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-2646usbank.com

US Bank – Prestonsburg415 North Lake Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-2924usbank.com

US Bank - Shelby Valley1151 Hwy 610Virgie, KY 41572606-639-4423usbank.com

US Bank - South Mayo Trail206 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-2772usbank.com

US Bank – Southside27989 US Hwy 119 N.South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-8406usbank.com

Utility Management Group287 Island Creek Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-4754umgllc.net

Valley Agency Real Estate60 Sunset Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6201valleyagencyinc.com

Valley Discount Pharmacy6758 US Hwy 23 S., Suite 7Pikeville, KY 41501606-639-2415

VanDyke Business

Solutions, Inc.2548 Greenup Ave.Ashland, KY 41101606-327-5536vandykeinc.com

Vantage Point, Inc.534 E. Main St.Stanville, KY 41659606-478-9494vantagepointads.com

Verizon Yellow Pages1019 Majestic Dr., Suite 110Lexington, KY 40513

Via Media4389 KY Route 825Hager Hill, KY 41222859-977-9000viamediatv.com

Victory Roofing, LLC122 Moonlight Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-1717

Wallen, Puckett &Anderson, PSC106 Fourth St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-8833

Walmart – Prestonsburg477 Village Dr.Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-886-6681walmart.com

Walmart – Whitesburg350 Whitesburg PlazaWhitesburg, KY 41858606-633-0152walmart.com

Walmart Supercenter – Louisa275 Walton Dr.Louisa, KY 41230606-673-4427walmart.com

Walmart Supercenter –Paintsville470 N. Mayo TrailPaintsville, KY 41240606-789-8920walmart.com

Walmart Supercenter –Pikeville254 Cassidy Blvd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-6177walmart.com

Walmart Supercenter –South Williamson28402 US Hwy 119South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-0477walmart.com

Walters Chevrolet/Buick505 N. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-432-5551walterschevroletbuick.com

Walters Mazda Mitsubishi302 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-9810

Walters Nissan36 Venters Ln.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-4005waltersnissan.com

Walters Toyota302 S. Mayo TrailPikeville, KY 41501606-437-1451walterstoyota.com

Westcare10057 Elkhorn CreekAshcamp, KY 41512606-754-7077westcare.com

Whayne Supply, Inc.359 S. Lanks Branch Rd.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-6265whayne.com

Whitesburg ARH240 Hospital Rd.Whitesburg, KY 41858606-633-3500arh.org/locations/whitesburg

Wide Open Outdoors45 Zebulon HwyPikeville, KY 41501606-432-0091wideopenoutdoors.com

WIFX98 Church Rd.Harold, KY 41635606-478-1200

Wildcat Fencing & Lawncare641 Phoenix Place Blvd.Hazard, KY 41701606-216-7023porch.com/pros/wildcat-fencing-and-lawncare-2

Williamson ARH260 Hospital Dr.South Williamson, KY 41503606-237-1710arh.org/locations/williamson

Williamson Physical Therapy141 E. 2nd St.Williamson, KY 41514304-235-9781

WKLW Radio865 S. Mayo Trail

Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-6664wklw.com

Worldwide Equipment, Inc.PO Box 1370Prestonsburg, KY 41653606-874-2172thetruckpeople.com

Wright Concrete& ConstructionPO Box 358Dorton, KY 41520606-639-4484wrightconcrete.com

WYMT-TV199 Black Gold Blvd.Hazard, KY 41701606-436-5757WYMT.com

Yatesville Lake State Park1410 Golf Course Rd.Louisa, KY 41230606-673-4303parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/yatesville-lake

Zebulon Primary Care419 Town Mtn. Rd., Suite 206Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-0720


Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

GOVERNMENT DIRECTORY

* Telecommunications Device for the Deaf

Government: FederalSenatorMitch McConnell361A Russell SenateOffice BuildingWashington, DC 20510-1702Phone: 202-224-2541Fax: 202-224-2499Email: mcconnell.senate.gov/

Field Office:601 W. Broadway, Room 630Louisville, KY 40202Phone: 502-582-6304Fax: 502-582-5326

SenatorRand Paul167 Russell SenateOffice BuildingWashington, DC 20510-1703Phone: 202-224-4343Email: paul.senate.gov/

Field Office:1029 State StreetBowling Green, KY 42101Phone: 270-782-8303

CongressmanHarold Rogers2406 Rayburn HouseOffice BuildingWashington, DC 20515-1705Phone: 202-225-4601Fax: 202-225-0940Email: halrogers.house.gov

Field Office:551 Clifty StreetSomerset, KY 42503Phone: 800-632-8588 or606-679-8346Fax: 606-678-4856

Government: StateGovernorSteve Beshear700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 100Frankfort, Kentucky 40601Main Line: 502-564-2611Fax: 502-564-2517*TDD: 502-564-9551

Senator, District 31Ray S. JonesPO Drawer 3850Pikeville, KY 41502 Work: 606-432-5777Fax: 606-432-5154 Capitol: 502-564-2470Elliot, Lawrence, Martin,Morgan, Pike

Senator, District 30Brandon Smith124 Craig StreetHazard, KY 41702Home: 606-436-4526Fax: 606-436-4526 Annex: 502-564-8100 Ext. 646Bell, Breathitt, Johnson,

Leslie, Magoffin, Perry

Senator, District 29Johnny Ray Turner849 Crestwood DrivePrestonsburg, KY 41653Home: 606-889-6568Annex: 502-564-8100 Ext. 2470 Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Letcher

Representative, District 96Jill York PO Box 591Grayson, KY 41143Work: 606-474-7263Fax: 606-474-7638 Annex: 502-564-8100 Ext. 602Carter, Lawrence

Representative, District 97Hubert Collins72 Collins DriveWittensville KY 41274Home: 606-297-3152Annex: 502-564-8100 Ext. 654Johnson, Morgan, Wolfe

Representative, District 93Chris Harris719 Forest Hills RoadForest Hills, KY 41527Annex: 502-564-8100 Ext. 635 Home: 606-237-0055Martin, Pike (Part)

Representative, District 95Greg StumboSpeaker of the HousePO Box 1473,108 Kassidy DrivePrestonsburg, KY 41653Home: 606-886-9953Annex: 502-564-2363Capitol: 502-564-3366Floyd, Pike (Part)

Representative, District 94Leslie Combs245 East Cedar DrivePikeville, KY 41501Home: 606-444-6672Annex: 502-564-8100 Ext. 669Letcher, Pike (Part)

Representative, District 92John Short240 Briarwood LaneMallie, KY 41836Work: 606-785-9018Annex: 502-564-8100 Ext. 668Knott, Magoffin, Pike (Part)

Kentucky SupremeCourt JusticeMichelle M. Keller6th Supreme Court DistrictSupreme Court of KentuckyKenton County Justice Center230 Madison Ave., Suite 821Covington, KY 41011Phone: 859-291-9966

Kentucky Court of Appeals

Janet L. Stumbo 7th Appellate District, Division 2Kentucky Court Of AppealsFirst Commonwealth Bank Building311 N. Arnold Avenue, Suite 502Prestonsburg, KY 41653Phone: 606-889-1710Lawrence, Johnson, Martin, Magoffin, Floyd, Pike, Knott, Letcher (Other counties not listed)

Sara Walter Combs7th Appellate District, Division 1Kentucky Court Of Appeals323 E. College Avenue PO Box 709Stanton, KY 40380Phone: 606-663-0651Lawrence, Johnson, Martin, Magoffin, Floyd, Pike, Knott, Letcher (Other counties not listed)

Lawrence County:City of Louisa

City Hall215 North Main Cross StreetLouisa, KY 41230606-638-4050

MayorHarold Slone

Council MembersGloria JohnsonAngela McGuireLisa SchaefferTom ParsonsRon Cordle Jr.Mitch Castle

County

Lawrence County Courthouse122 South Main Cross StreetLouisa, KY 41230606-638-4102

Judge ExecutiveJohn A. OsbourneOffice: 606-638-0618Fax: 606-638-0618

Property Value AdministratorChris RoseOffice: 606-633-4743

SheriffGarrett Roberts122 Main Cross StreetLouisa, KY 41230Office: 606-638-4368Fax: 606-638-1316

MagistratesMorris HowardDistrict 1302 Saddletown Rd.Webbville, KY 41180606-652-4178

John J. LemasterDistrict 21792 Deerlick Branch Rd.

Louisa, KY 41230606-673-1310

Earl BoggsDistrict 3170 Bellflower Rd.Blaine, KY 41124606-652-3588

Rick BlackburnDistrict 4PO Box 566Louisa, KY 41230606-673-3954

CoronerMike Wilson1280 Hwy. 2565Louisa, KY 41230Office: 606-638-0034

County Attorney Mike Hogan122 Main Cross StreetLouisa, KY 41230Office: 606-638-4051

Circuit Court ClerkJodi Parsley122 Main Cross StreetLouisa, KY 41230Office: 606-638-4215

County Jailer Roger Lee JordanOffice: 606-638-4312

Judicial

Circuit Court ClerkJodi ParsleyLawrence County Judicial Center29 Riverbend RoadLouisa, KY 41230606-638-4215

Family Circuit JudgeJanie McKenzie-Wells Johnson County Judicial Center908 Third St.Paintsville, KY 41240Phone: 606-297-9574Fax: 606-297-9577

Chief Circuit JudgeJohn David Preston908 Third St.Paintsville, KY 41240Phone: 606-297-9586Office: 606-297-9588

District JudgeJohnson County Judicial CenterJohn Kevin Holbrook908 Third St.Paintsville, KY 41240Office: 606-297-9581Fax: 606-297-9585

Johnson CountyCity of Paintsville

City Hall340 Main St.

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Paintsville, KY 41240606-789-2600

Mayor Bob PorterP.O. Box 1588Paintsville, KY 41240

Council MembersSara BlairDavid VanhooseBill Mike RunyonJim MeekTommy TrimbleShawn Thompson

County

Judge/ ExecutiveR.T. DanielPO Box 868 Paintsville, KY 41240Office: 606-789-2550Fax: 606-789-2555

Commissioner, District 1Kathy AdamsPO Box 868 Painstville, KY 41240606-297-6665

Commissioner, District 2Paul DanielPO Box 868Painstville, KY41240606-297-2881

Commissioner, District 3Darren GamblePO Box 868Paintsville, KY 41240606-297-3960

CoronerJR Woodrow Frisby230 Court St., Suite 201Louisa, KY 41230606-793-0452

County AttorneyMichael Endicott235 Court Street PO Box 1287 Paintsville, KY 41240 606-789-8286 606-789-3338

County ClerkSallee Holbrook606-789-2557

JailerDoug Saylor606-793-8697

Property Valuation Michael Stafford230 Court Street, Suite 229Paintsville, Kentucky 41240Phone: 606-789-2564Fax: 606-789-2565

SheriffDwayne Price606-789-3411

Judicial

Circuit Court ClerkPenny AdamsJohnson County Judicial Center908 3rd Street, Suite 109Paintsville, KY 41240Office: 606-297- 9567Fax: 606-297-9573

Commonwealth AttorneyHon. Anna Melvin704 Broadway, Suite BPO Box 596Paintsville, KY 41240Phone: 606-788-7085Fax: 606-788-7086

Circuit Court JudgeJohn David Preston 908 3rd Street, Suite 109Paintsville, KY 41240606-297-9586

District JudgeKevin Holbrook 908 3rd Street, Suite 109Paintsville, KY 41240606-297-9583

Family Circuit JudgeJanie McKenzie-Wells Johnson County Judicial Center908 Third StreetPaintsville, KY 41240Phone: 606-297-9574Fax: 606-297-9577

Martin CountyCity of Inez

City Hall Main Street PO Box 540 Inez, KY 41224Office: 606-298-4602Fax: 606-298-4214

MayorTerry Fraley

City ClerkCandy Crum

City CommissionersDennis HallTim PreeceDanny SparksTerry Dalton

County

Judge ExecutiveKelly CallahamPO Box 309 Inez, KY 41224Office: 606-289-2800Fax: 606-298-4404

MagistratesGary HuntDarrel MillsJosh MuncyVictor SloneJohn Harmon

County AttorneyKennis Maynard606-298-2815

County ClerkSusie Skyles

PVA OfficeBobby E. Hale, Jr., PVA PO Box 341 Inez, KY 41224 Office: 606-298-2807 Fax: 606-298-2808

SheriffJohn Kirk606-298-2828

Circuit Court ClerkJack Horn Martin County Courthouse430 Court St.Inez, KY 41224606-298-3508

Family Circuit JudgeJanie McKenzie-Wells Johnson County Judicial Center908 Third St.Paintsville, KY 41240Phone: 606-297-9574Fax: 606-297-9577

Chief Circuit JudgeJohn David Preston908 Third St.Paintsville, KY 41240Phone: 606-297-9586Office: 606-297-9588

District JudgeJohnson County Judicial CenterJohn Kevin Holbrook908 Third St.Paintsville, KY 41240Office: 606-297-9581Fax: 606-297-9585

Magoffin CountyCity Hall315 East Maple StreetSalyersville, KY 41465606-349-2409

MayorJames Pete Shepherd315 East Maple StreetSalyersville, KY 41465606-349-2409

Council MembersJeff BaileyTommy BaileyTom FrazierHerbert “Tex” HolbrookMary Ann WardKenneth Williams

County

Judge ExecutiveCharles Hardin M.D. PO Box 430Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-2313

MagistratesGary “Rooster” RisnerPO Box 430 Salyersville, KY 41465Home Address:P.O. Box 291Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-9167

Pernell “Buck” LeMasterPO Box 430 Salyersville, KY 41465Home Address:3655 Falcon Rd.Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-1539

Matthew WiremanPO Box 430 Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-4287

CoronerMark JenkinsPO Box 430

Salyersville, KY 41465Home Address:PO Box 66Falcon, KY 41426606-349-7459

County AttorneyGreg Allen 110 East Maple StreetSalyersville, KY 41465606-349-1382

County ClerkRenee Arnett Sheperd PO Box 1535Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-2216

JailerBryan Montgomery PO Box 430Salyersville, KY 41465Home Address:HC 61 Box 639Salyersville, KY 41465606-496-6176

SheriffCarson Montgomery PO Box 589 Parkway DriveSalyersville, KY 41465606-349-2914

Property Value AdministratorJerry SwineyPO Box 107Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-6198

Judicial

Circuit Court ClerkTonya Arnett WardMagoffin County Justice Center100 E. Maple St.Salyersville, KY 41465606-349-2215606-349-4050

District Court JudgeKim Cornett ChildersChief Circuit Judge53 West Main St.PO Box 867Hindman, KY 41822606-785-3842 Phone: 606-785-9273 Fax: 606-785-9096

Floyd CountyCity of Prestonsburg

City Hall200 North Lake DrivePrestonsburg KY 41653Office: 606-886-2335Fax: 606-886-0563

Mayor Les Stapleton

City of Prestonsburg200 North Lake DrivePrestonsburg, KY 41653Office: 606-886-2335Fax: 606-886-0563

City ClerkSharon Setzer

Council MembersHarry AdamsTimothy Cooley


David GearhartFreddie GobleKimber McGuireB.D. NunneryRoy RobertsDon Willis

County

Judge ExecutiveBen Hale149 S. Central AvenuePrestonsburg, KY 41653-0789Office: 606-886-9193Fax: 606-886-1083

MagistratesJohn GobleRandy DavisMike TackettRonnie Akers

CoronerGregory Scott NelsonPO Box 147Dwale, KY 41621606-285-5155

County AttorneyKeith Bartley149 South Central AvenuePO Box 1000Prestonsburg, KY 41653Phone: 606-886-6863Fax: 606-886-6106

County ClerkChris D. Waugh149 South Central AvePrestonsburg KY 41653Office: 606-886-8089Fax: 606-886-3816

JailerStuart HalbertFloyd County [email protected]

Property Value AdministratorConnie Jean Hancock, PVA 149 S. Central Ave., Room 5 Prestonsburg, KY 41653 Office: 606-886-9622 Fax: 606-889-0591

SheriffJohn HuntPO Box 152Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653606-886-6171

Judicial

Circuit Court ClerkDouglas Ray HallFloyd County Justice Center127 S. Lake DrivePrestonsburg, KY 41653Phone: 606-889-1672 Fax: 606-889-1666

Circuit JudgeJohnny Ray HarrisFloyd County Justice Center127 S. Lake DrivePrestonsburg, KY 41653Phone: 606-889-1653 Fax: 606-889-1655

Chief District JudgeThomas M. SmithFloyd County Justice Center127 S. Lake DrivePrestonsburg, KY 41653

Phone: 606-889-1900 Fax: 606-889-1902

Family Court JudgeDwight S. MarshallFloyd County Justice Center127 S. Lake DrivePrestonsburg, KY 41653Phone: 606-889-1900 Fax: 606-889-1902

Pike CountyCity of Coal Run Village

City Hall81 Church StreetPikeville, KY 41501606-437-6032

MayorAndrew H. Scott

ClerkDeborah J. Tackett

City CommissionersMike StealeSherry A. MayMerlin Sesco JR.Beverly Jo Justice Osbourne

Elkhorn City

City Hall PO Box 681Elkhorn City, KY 41522606-754-5080

MayorMike Taylor

ClerkHope Ramey

Council MembersMike StacyRoger CopleyRoxanne BlankenshipLois CantrellJeff BailiffMike TaylorRobert Lester

City of Pikeville

City Hall 118 College StreetPikeville KY 41501606-437-5100

MayorJimmy CarterPO Box 2198Pikeville, KY 41502

City ManagerDonovan Blackburn478 College St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-437-5104

City CommissionerFrank Justice256 Poplar St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-3583

Barry Chaney517 Cedar Creek RdPikeville KY 41501

Josh Huffman

Jerry K. Coleman168 Peachtree Dr.Pikeville, KY 41501606-477-7625

County

Judge ExecutiveWilliam M. Deskins146 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-6247

MagistratesJeffrey Scott Anderson, District 1PO Box 1435Pikeville, KY 41501606-437- 0713

Vernon Johnson, District 2PO Box 297Virgie, KY 41572606-639-6837

Leo Murphy23560 South Levisa Road Mouthcard, KY 41548606-835-1300

Kenneth Robinson6883 Millard Highway, Apt 2 Pikeville, KY 41501606-432-0734

Hilman Dotson48681 State Highway 1946 Majestic, KY 41547 606-456-7146

Bobby Varney1199 Taylor Fork Rd. Turkey Creek, KY 41514606-353-9604

Coroner Russell Roberts606-432-4643

County Attorney Howard Keith HallPO Box 1289Pikeville, KY 41502606-432-6250

County Clerk Rhonda TaylorPO Box 1289Pikeville, KY 41502606-432-6222

JailerFreddie Lewis606-432-6291

Property Value Administrator Lonnie Osborne606-432-6201

SheriffRodney Scott 606-432-6260

Judicial

Circuit Court ClerkAnna Pinson SpearsPike County Judicial Center175 Main St., P.O. Box 1002Pikeville, KY 41502-1002606-433-7560

Commonwealths AttorneyRick Bartley606-433-7500

Circuit JudgeSteven CombsPike County Judicial Center 175 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-7551

Vice Chief RegionalCircuit JudgeEddy ColemanPike County Judicial Center175 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-7554

District JudgeDarrel Mullins172 Division Street, Suite 326Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-7562

District JudgeKelsey Friend, Jr172 Division Street, Suite 326Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-7561

Family Court JudgeLarry E. ThompsonFamily Court Judge175 Main St.Pikeville, KY 41501606-433-7060

Knott CountyCity of Hindman

City HallPO Box 496Hindman KY 41822606-785-5544

MayorTracy Niece

Council MembersBob YoungCalvin CombsNadine WaddellPatricia HallLarry PerkinsVicky Hudson

County

Judge ExecutiveZachary Combs WeinburgPO Box 505Hindman, KY 41822606-785-5592

MagistratesJamie MosleyAvery ShrumCalvin WaddlesJeff Dobson

CoronerWilliam Jeff Blair519 Bypass Rd.Hindman, KY 41822606-785- 3133

County AttorneyTim Bates54 W. Main Street, CourthousePO Box 470Hindman, KY 41822606-785-5355

County ClerkKennith Gayheart PO Box 446Hindman, KY 41822606-785-0996

JailerRicky PraterPO Box 505Hindman, KY 41822

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Property Value Administrator Ed Slone, PVA PO Box 505 Hindman, KY 41822 Office: 606-785-5569 Fax: 606-785-5569

SheriffDale RichardsonPO Box 1170Hindman, KY 41822

Judicial

County CourthousePO Box 1287Hindman, KY 41822606-785-5592

Circuit County ClerkJudy CollinsKnott County Judicial Center53 W. Main St.PO Box 1317Hindman, KY 41822606-785-5021

Chief Circuit JudgeKimberly Childers53 W. Main StreetHindman, KY 41822

Chief District JudgeDennis Prater53 W. Main StreetHindman, KY 41822

Family Court JudgeDwight MarshallKnott County Justice Center100 Justice DriveHindman, KY 41822Phone: 606-889-1676

Letcher CountyCity of Whitesburg

City Hall38 East Main StreetWhitesburg, KY 41858606-633-3700

MayorJames Wiley Craft606-633-3700

City Council MembersJames BatesEarlene WilliamsDerek BartoLarry EveridgeSheila ShortRobin Bowen-Watko

City of Jenkins

City Hall 9409 Hwy 805Jenkins, KY 41537606-832-2142

MayorTodd DePriest606-832-2142

City ClerkChasity Phipps

City AdministrationBennie McCall

Finance OfficerRobin Kincer

Council MembersBecky Terrill AmburgeyChuck AndersonKyle WalkerMike DingusRobert AdamsRick Damron

County

Judge ExecutiveJim T. Ward156 Main St Suit 107Whitesburg, KY 41858606-633-2129

MagistratesBobby Howard247 Tunnel RoadWhitesburg, Kentucky606-634-4558606-633-4314

Terry AdamsPO Box 488Isom, Kentucky 41824606-634-9269606-633-9247

Woody Holbrook 474 Hwy 3406Mayking, KY 41837606-633-2012606-634-921

Keith AdamsPO Box 5Jeremiah, Kentucky 41826606-634-5323

Wayne FlemingPO Box 232Burdine, Kentucky 41517606-832-4752606-821-6288

County AttorneyJamie Hatton95 Main StreetWhitesburg, KY 41858Phone:606-633-9588Fax: 606-633-3879

Letcher County Fiscal CourtHettie Adams-Executive Secretary156 Main Street, Suite 107Whitesburg, KY 41858Office: 606-633-2129Fax: 606-633-7105

JailerDon McCall

Property Value AdministratorRandy Hall, PVA 156 Main Street Suite 105 Whitesburg, KY 41858 Office: 606-633-2182 Fax: 606-633-3995

SheriffDanny Webb6 Broadway StreetWhitesburg, KY 41858Office: 606-633-2293Personal: 606-633-5163

Judicial

Circuit Court ClerkMargaret NicholsLetcher County Courthouse156 Main St., Suite 201

Whitesburg KY 41858606-633-7559606-633-1048

Chief Circuit JudgeSamuel T. Wright, III156 Main Street, Suite 205Whitesburg, KY 41858606-633-2259

District JudgeKevin R. Mullins156 Main Street, Suite 101 CWhitesburg, KY 41858606-633-4222