Growing Up East Kentucky: A Native Son Tells His Story
Amburgey, Bart Barkley / Singleton, Jane / Mariner Publishing
At home in the foothills of the east Kentucky mountains, Bart Amburgey continues to write down his warm mountain memories from the 1930s-1950s. 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 didnt want to be tracked if someone was watching.