Over at CrimLaw, Ken Lammers is running a new CLTV episode about his move to a new town. The footage is kind of poor because—as he was winding down his defense practice before starting his new job as a prosecutor—someone stole his good video camera.
Ken’s new job is with the Wise County prosecutor’s office, but his home is across the state line in Kentucky, just outside of Whitesburg. He also drove up to the old coal town of Pikeville and took some picture there.
Small world. My dad grew up in Letcher county and talks a lot about Whitesburg and Hindman. I’ve still got relatives living in Pikeville.
I visited there several times when I was a kid, the last time maybe when I was 18. It’s odd, I didn’t recognize any specific place in Ken’s photos, but I recognized the look of the area, the way the inhabitants have built their homes and towns around the shape of the land.
Anyway, he includes some footage of a Hummer that the local Army recruiters are using instead of the usual boring government cars. I saw one of those parked at a rest stop around here, and got a couple pictures:
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