Growing Up East Kentucky: A Native Son Tells His Story

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At home now in the foothills of his east Kentucky mountains, Bart returns to Burgeys Creek from time to time, but briefly. Settled at last, Bart continues to write down his warm mountain memories, smiling after every paragraph. “I must have someone else’s pants on—there’s money in my pocket,” said Bart’s old mountain neighbor Monroe Bentley.

Bart also records other realities of survival in the east Kentucky mountains: “…If we carried a kerosene lantern, it would take too much time to turn off. The flashlight was very important to a moonshiner. They didn’t want to be tracked if someone was watching.”