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A lot was going on ten years ago. In downtown Somerset, we were just starting to enjoy our newly-remodeled Fountain Square… which was given an unwelcomed bubble bath before it
Cincinnati won two of the three games at Philadelphia over the weekend. Winning 6-1 Friday night. Joey Votto a three-run homer, Eugenio Suarez a two-r...
Share this: Michael Stamper, a.k.a. Nick Stump, performs in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo via Nick Stump Band Facebook page) In 1987 the Metropolitan Blues All Stars were headliners for an Appalachian cultural gala in Chicago. It was a celebration of Appalshop that featured Roadside Theater, Fiddle King of the South Marion Sumner, renowned banjo player Lee Sexton, and screenings of Appalshop films. Met Blues was fronted by three guys who’d led their own bands earlier. (Hence All Stars.) Two of them, Rodney Hatfield and Mike Stamper, grew up in different East Kentucky coal towns and both cam...