Category Archives: Politics

O.H. Napier, the Man and the Myth

O.H. Napier was a complicated man who lived to make people laugh. A great deal of myth surrounded this simple man who died in 2012. Continue reading

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Courthouse Loafers Beware

Without a whittlers’ bench, the “loafers’ found their way to the courthouse. Doc Turner and Judge Noble put a stop to that in 1986. Continue reading

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Remembering Breathitt’s Sheriff

Breathitt County Sheriff Carl Back dies on a Sunday afternoon in March 1962. Learn more about on of Jackson leaders from long ago. Continue reading

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