"Chief" Redmon, High Sheriff of St. Charles
1st "store bought" haircut at Gurney Testor's barbershop
1st ice cream (scoop of black cherry) at Doc Shaun's Drug Store
1st grade teacher St. Charles: Mrs. Barker
2nd grade teacher St. Charles: Mrs. Langley
3rd grade teacher St. Charles: Miss Keller
4th grade teacher St. Charles: Mrs. Meyers
5th grade teacher St. Charles: Mrs. Brown
6th grade teacher St. Charles: Mrs. Flannery
Amazed at how fast our neighbor's old wooden house burned to the ground
Annual visit from Mr. Richmond, the school superintendent
Balcony of St. Charles theater
Ben Hur straight-away
Black diesel fumes from the bus from St. Charles to Pennington Gap
Black skies from coal burning stoves
Bus garage behind school
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. building by Copeland Funeral Home
Christmas lights of St. Charles, Pennington Gap, and Jonesville
Cloak Rooms in each classroom
Dad bringing home a block of coal with an imprint of a fish in it
Deadman's curve on Harlan Highway
Dusting erasers on the big tree by the shop building
Either you were one, related to one, or you knew a Kirk, Mullins, Wallens, etc.
Eye-brow dormers on St. Charles Depot
Fern Dykes and Shirley Collins singing "A Beautiful Life" in 5th grade
Fights under the bleachers at football games
Finding a working moonshine still and never telling a soul about it
Finding ancient sea shells in the sandpit above Wagnertown
Finding coal scatter tags along railroad tracks
First snow cleaned everything
First snow of season on Lone Mountain above Bonnie Blue
Going to Jonesville to "trade"
Going to the ice house in Pennington Gap
Going to the tobacco auction in Pennington Gap
Grades of coal: pea, egg, foundry, stoker, block
Green corrugated street lights of St. Charles
Having passengers get out of the car and walk because it wouldn't pull the hill loaded
Having to park at the foot of the hill during snowstorms
Haynes and Roop's garage
Hearing St Charles church bells on Sunday morning
Huge forest fire above Pennington Gap
Icicles hanging off rocks above Wagnertown
Jonesville swimming pool
Jug Williams store, the last stop before and the first stop after school
Knowing someone who had to "take in washing" just to make ends meet
Lee County fair
Long ago places: Dominion, Mayflower, Monarch, VIC, Leona Mines
Long ago places: Bondurant, Imperial, Stringtown, Kirktown
Mainline, George Washington, and Crip Garber
Mainline's wheelbarrow
Marie Blankenship's neighborhood store in Wagnertown
Mr. Fugate, principal of St. Charles High School
Mutt and Jeff's custard stand in Pennington Gap
Not knowing the name of the creek that ran through St. Charles for years (it's Straight Creek)
Old St. Charles fire truck that was hard to start
Peeping into the Holiness Church in St. Charles to see the snake handlers
Pennington Gap jockey lot
Places like Wagnertown, Maness, Benedict, Bonnie Blue, Penn Lee
Places like Pocket, Kemmer Gem, Turner Siding, Darby
Popcorn vendors in downtown St. Charles
Post Office put up mail twice a day
Reading Jo Jo in Knoxville News Sentinel
Recess on the St. Charles athletic field and the creek in lower end
Rickety wooden bridges
Riding the mining car at the abandoned mine behind Boze Lewis' house
Seeing first diesel locomotive come into St. Charles
Seeing Gabby Hayes at St. Charles theater
Seeing how far you could walk the rails before falling off
Seeing Lash La Rue at St. Charles theater
Seeing snowflakes under St. Charles streetlights
Seeing the black children on their school bus ride to and from Wise Co
Self ordained minister preaching from his car with huge loudspeakers
Shop teachers black Thunderbird
Skidmore's produce truck
Sled ride down Big Branch
Spittoon in St. Charles Depot
Spring and summer floods
St. Charles sycamore tree and its whittlers and liars
St. Charles taxi stand
Steam engines parked by St. Charles Depot and water tanks
Swinging bridges
The day the train jumped the tracks torn up the railroad all the way to Stone Creek
The family that lived in a cave near Old Stone Face
The insurance man visiting every week to collect his debit
The little girl that died from bee stings in Pennington Gap
The log houses at the St. Charles city limits
The popping and cracking of the radiators in school
Unveiling of new cars at Jesse Chevrolet, free hot dogs and pop
Watching a ballgame from Tight Wad hill
White flags on a coal train meant it was a "special"
Yellow railroad section cars up and down the tracks daily