The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom(strangersguide.com)
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The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom
https://strangersguide.com/articles/the-eagle-never-sleeps/
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This is barely an hour from me. Thank you for this. I'm moved by the dedication to free information, especially by my own countrymen in this special place. I think I'll buy a subscription.
The Mountain Eagle and Appalshop both have no reason to be as good as they are. Consider supporting both!
What a overly verbose article, I didn't see one link in the article to the actual newspaper.
Judge it for yourself: https://www.themountaineagle.com/
It would be nice to have an abstract to this article.
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I live in New York City, now, and one evening found myself sitting at a bar in Brooklyn where my roommate, the bartender, was closing around 3am (at the time I worked a very late shift at the 24 hour Apple Store). The normal patrons had all gone, and myself, my roommate, and another man I’d never met were locked in having a last couple of beers while my roommate closed up. I had a long conversation with the man I hadn’t met before that eventually turned to where we grew up. It turned out that this man was Ray Gish (also mentioned in this article), the younger brother of Ben. Ray even recognized my father’s name, because Ben had mentioned him before.
Ray invited my roommate (whom he already knew well) and I over to his place for a last drink, and I vividly remember him playing “Street Hassle” by Lou Reed on his record player. It was the first time I’d ever heard that song.
Anyway—wildest coincidence that has ever happened to me. I see and say howdy to Ray every now and then when I find myself in that part of Brooklyn—one of the most genuine people I’ve ever met.