Tag: Pike
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Rebecca Lynn Howard Returns Home to Eastern Kentucky: The Mountain Grrl Experience
Country music artists are known for having an enduring bond with the places they call home. Much of the soul they pour into their music springs from the experiences they had in their humble beginnings. Artists often find themselves drawn back to their roots, seeking to reconnect with their past and to recapture these fond…
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Hillbilly Days 2024 Dates Announced
Hillbilly Days 2023, the annual Spring festival of Pikeville, Kentucky, was a huge success. The festival, which features ridiculous characters and outrageous jalopy cars, raises money each year for the Shriners Hospitals for Children, with over 100,000 visitors attending the event this year. Hillbilly Days 2024 was announced for April 18th through the 20th, with…
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Pikeville Hillbilly Days 2025
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The Hatfields and McCoys: Remembering the 1888 New Year’s Day Massacre
The Hatfields and McCoys are one of the most famous feuding families in American history. This infamous feud began in the late nineteenth century in the rugged mountains of eastern Kentucky, along the border of southern West Virginia. These two infamous families engaged each other in a bitter struggle of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge. The…
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Devil Anse Hatfield Descendant Speaks at the McCoy Well – What Did He Have to Say?
Each September, Pike County Tourism CVB, along with the Pike County government and various community leaders host Hatfield McCoy Heritage Days, a multi-day event that involves many descendants of Hatfields and the McCoys. Descendants of these famous feuding families come to Pikeville and the surrounding area to engage in storytelling, meet and greets, and special…
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The Hatfields & McCoys: The Story You’ve Been Told
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the Hatfield and McCoy families’ feud drew national attention and prompted authorities to take control of this chaotic situation, which garnered the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court (1888). Randolph McCoy, who made his home in Pike County Kentucky (Hardy/Blackberry area), and William Anderson “Devil Anse”…