"Compassion for a Region" by Fred Luigart, Jr. Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine, July 7, 1963

"Caudill's in Another Fight" by Fred W. Luigart, Jr. Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine, November 17, 1963

"Caudill Analyzes Causes, Proposes Poverty Remedies." Louisville Courier-Journal, May 10, 1964, Section 4 [from U. S. News and World Report interview, May 11, 1964]

"We Are on Our Way to Becoming a Welfare Reservation." U. S. News and World Report, Vol. 56, no. 19 (May 11, 1964)

"Caudill Urges New Tack on Appalachia" by Margaret Paschke. Kentucky Post, March 17, 1965

"Harry Caudill: God's Angry Mountaineer." Appalachian South, Fall and Winter 1965 [editorial; includes manuscript and published versions]

"The Lonely War of a Good, Angry Man" by David G. McCullough. American Heritage, December 1969 [for correspondence between Caudill and McCullough about this article, see Box 62, Folder 2]

"The Caudills' Environment" by Carol Sutton. Louisville Courier- Journal & Times, February 1, 1970, Section G

"Strip Mining Foe Keeps Battling" by Jack Trawick. Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, March 22, 1970

"An Interview with Harry Caudill." Coal Facts, Vol. 1, no. 5 (January 28, 1972) [transcript of NBC's Frank McGee interview televised on the "Today" show, January 7, 1972]

"Harry Caudill and His Land" by Colman McCarthy. Washington Post, July 7, 1972

"A Rhetorical Analysis: Harry M. Caudill Address to the Kentucky Press Association January 24, 1970" by Linda Foote. August 2, 1972 [unpublished student seminar paper]

"Harry Monroe Caudill--A Study in Regional Oratory" by Donald Felty. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1972 [Master's thesis]

"Kentucky is a Mix of Violence, Coal and Smiles" by J.A.C. Dunn. Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, September 7, 1974

"Honorary Mountaineer of the Month: Harry Caudill, Fighter for a Lost Cause?" by Greg Carannante and Jim Webb. Mountain Call, Vol. 2, no. 3 (April 1975)

"The Plowboy Interview: Harry Caudill." Mother Earth News, Vol. 1, no. 34 (July 1975)

"Prophet of Environmentalists: Kentucky Author Harry Caudill Still Worried About Future" by Mary Buckner. Lexington Herald- Leader, February 1, 1976

"Has Harry Caudill Mellowed?" by John Ed Pearce. Louisville Courier Journal & Times Magazine, June 6, 1976

"Caudill Looks Back and Ahead as He Takes Leave of His Hills--For Awhile" by Scott Payton. Lexington Herald-Leader, August 28, 1977

"Press Essential to 'Save the Day'" by W. E. Chilton III and James F. Dent. Charleston Gazette-Mail, August 27, 1978 [interview]

"From Politics to Books, Harry Caudill Is Still Thinking" by Kevin Osbourn. Kentucky Kernel, April 29, 1980

"Harry Caudill Still Beating the Drum for Appalachia" by Lee Mueller. Lexington Herald-Leader, March 8, 1981

"Harry M. Caudill in His Own Words" by Elizabeth Rouse. Kentucky Monthly, Vol. 2, no. 5 (April 1981)[interview]

"The 'Other' Harry Caudill: A Critique" by Alice Cornett. Kentucky Coal Journal, April 1981

"Caudill's Works Are Filled With Inaccuracies, Hazard Writer Says." Lexington Herald-Leader, April 19, 1981 [reprint of "The 'Other' Harry Caudill: A Critique," in Kentucky Coal Journal, April 1981 and includes a "Counterpoint" by Caudill]

"An Interview With Harry Caudill" by Stephen L. Fischer and J. W. Williamson. Appalachian Journal, Vol. 8, no. 4 (Summer 1981)

"Hulking 6-Footer Drove Home Ugliness of 'Welfarism' for Kentucky Muckraker" by C. Fraser Smith. Baltimore Sun, November 13, 1981

"Appalachia: Tracking the Character of a People Through the Hills" and "Appalachia 's Progressive Destination" by Ron Larson. Roanoke Times & World Report, March 28, 1982 and April 4, 1982 [from an interview done in December 1981]

"Harry Caudill and the Burden of Mountain Liberalism" by Ronald D. Eller. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, 1982 [manuscript and revised published version]

"Night Comes to the Cumberlands. Twenty Years After and Twenty Years Ahead" by William T. Cornett. Troublesome Creek Times, June 30, 1982

"Ravages of Strip Mining Still Exist" by Jim Warren. Lexington Herald-Leader, March 7, 1983 [interview]

"As the World Turns: The Melodrama of Harry Caudill" by Steve Fisher. Appalachian Journal, Spring 1984 [essay is also a review of Theirs Be The Power]

"We Need Community--But How?" Mountain Spirit, November-December 1984 [interview with Caudill and Father Ralph Beiting]

"Harry Caudill, Noted Appalachian Author, Leaving UK for Home" by Katy McCrocklin. Kentucky Journal, Vol. 1, no. 13 (May 2, 1985)

"Harry Caudill in Retirement: He Remains a Mountain Rebel" by Judy Jones Lewis. Lexington Herald-Leader, October 26, 1986

"The Mountain, The Miners, and Mister Caudill" by John G. Mitchell. Audubon, November 1988

"Harry Caudill and Wife Anne Work for Better East Kentucky" by William T. Cornett. Mountain Eagle, April 12, 1989

"Interview with Anne Frye Caudill" by Mary Ellen Elsbernd. February and March 1990 [unpublished as of April 1995]

"Voice of the Mountains" by Jim Warren. Lexington Herald-Leader, April 29, 1990

"An Interview With Harry Caudill" by Mary Ellen Elsbernd and James C. Claypool. Journal of Kentucky Studies, Vol. 7 (September 1990)

"Mountain Lawyer's Writings Draw Nation's Attention to Kentucky Highlands" by William T. Cornett. Kentucky Explorer, November 1990

"Harry Caudill's Appalachia" by Colman McCarthy. Washington Post, December 8, 1990

"The Man Who Loved the Mountains" by Tom Gish. Appalachia, Vol. 24, no.2 (Spring 1991)

"A Tribute to Harry M. Caudill" by Loyal Jones. Appalachian Heritage, Vol. 19, no. 2 (Spring 1991)

"A Research Paper on Harry Monroe Caudill" by Sherri L. Cook. April 21, 1992 [unpublished student paper]

"Harry Caudill's 'Night Comes to the Cumberlands' Marks 30th Anniversary" by Thomas T. Ross. Kentucky Explorer, September 1993

"Ups and Downs: Caudill Was Right; A Vote For Tax Equity." Lexington Herald-Leader, May 28, 1994

i General

ii Eastern Kentucky University Honorary Degree

The president and the faculty senate of Eastern Kentucky University nominated Caudill for an honorary doctorate degree in 1970. But Eastern's board of regents rejected the recommendation when two members on the board objected to awarding Caudill on grounds that he was too controversial.

iii The "Roast", October 30, 1986

Caudill was honored at a "Banquet and Roast" on October 30, 1986 at the University of Kentucky. This was part of the program at the "On the Land and Economy of Appalachia" conference sponsored by the University's Appalachian Center. The occasion was also intended to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the writing of Night Comes to the Cumberlands. [Caudill's speech delivered at the banquet is filed with Manuscripts--Lectures and Speeches in Box 75, Folder 36.]

iv Dedication of Caudill Appalachian Studies Book Collection to Northern Kentucky University, March 29, 1990

v Harry M. Caudill Memorial Public Library Dedication, May 22, 1994

[includes background materials on the development of the project]

May 3, 1922-December 31, 1999; N.d

Biographical Sketch, Biographical Sources, Professional Life, Public Service, Memberships, Awards, Honorary Degrees, Television Appearances [compiled by Anne Caudill]

"Anne Frye Caudill" [biographical sketch by Anne Caudill] c1990 with 1994 postscript

News reports, editorials, and commentaries concerning Caudill's death on November 29, 1990 [compiled by Anne Caudill]

Letters of sympathy received by Anne Caudill. November 29, 1990-December 9, 1990

Letters of sympathy received by Anne Caudill. December 10, 1990-August 11, 1991

Appalachian Heritage issue "Commemorating Harry M. Caudill" Vol. 21, no.2 (Spring 1993)

i General

Correspondence and clippings concerning Caudill's interest in various possibilities for Appalachian economic development, including power development, appeals for expansion of national forests, and attempts to attract industry to the area.

ii Appalachian Regional Commission

Files include correspondence and clippings about the Area Redevelopment Act of 1961 which was passed to promote new opportunities in both rural and urban areas suffering from a high unemployment rate; the President's Appalachian Regional Commission (PARC), created by President Kennedy in 1963 to develop a plan of economic and social development for the Appalachian region; and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) formed under President Johnson as a federal-state agency to continue PARC's work.

iii Common Heritage

A corporation on whose board of directors Caudill served. Supported by grants and membership drives, Common Heritage worked to reverse out-migration from eastern Kentucky. This was attempted by supplying lists of skilled migrants willing to return for employment to companies considering the location of plants in eastern Kentucky. The assurance of a skilled labor force was intended to act as an inducement.

iv Congress for Appalachian Development(CAD)

On September 17, 1966, Caudill and E.S. Fraley, a farmer from Bristol, Virginia, called a meeting of Appalachian residents interested in developing local resources. A steering committee meeting was held in Charleston, West Virginia, on October 15, 1966, and CAD was officially incorporated on November 25, 1966.

CAD advocated public utility districts (PUDS) modeled after those of Chelan County in Washington state. Kirby Billingsly, manager of the Chelan County PUD, was instrumental in providing information. Publicly owned power plants were to be built near the mouths of coal mines and the power produced would be sold across the eastern U.S. Industry would be attracted to the area and new towns would be formed. [For more on PUDS, see folders in the "Environment" section (Subject Files) on the Northern Plains Resource Council.]

Besides the Caudills, other prominent members of CAD included Senator Paul Kaufman (W.Va.), Gordon Ebersole, who devoted much of his time to CAD after his retirement from the Area Redevelopment Administration (Dept. of the Interior), and Lewis Smith, a Denver engineer, formerly with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

In addition to Caudill's publications, CAD was widely publicized in articles by John Fetterman, William Blizzard, Ben Franklin, and others. However, the large financial backing that was hoped for never materialized, even though appeals were made to foundations, celebrities (e g. Lawrence Welk), and labor unions like the United Mine Workers and the United Auto Workers. [For other related activities, see the folders in this section on Eastern Kentucky Public Power Development and Yankee-Dixie Power Association.]

v Corporate Responsibility for Development

In August 1978, Caudill spoke to a Charleston, West Virginia, neighborhood meeting about the problems facing Appalachia. He called for the large corporations, especially those involved in coal, gas, and oil extraction, to return some of their wealth to the area for education and economic development. The speech was widely covered in the news media and received tremendous public response. Kentucky's Berea College was the site of several meetings between representatives of the coal industry, including Harry Laviers, Jr., then president of South East Coal Company and the Kentucky Coal Association, J. L. Jackson, president of Falcon Coal, Caudill, various educators, and others interested in a socioeconomic conference on Appalachia.

Caudill was particularly concerned about the large portion of Appalachian land and resources controlled by absentee ownership. George Atkins adopted Caudill's ideas on corporate responsibility in 1978 when he sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Kentucky. [See also the "Taxation" files, Box 31; e.g. if corporations failed to contribute voluntarily, Caudill advocated an increase in severance tax]

vi East Kentucky Economic Development and Job Creation Corporation

On April 29-30, 1988, over two hundred people attended an East Kentucky Leadership Conference held in Hazard, Kentucky, and sponsored by eastern Kentucky's Area Development Districts. Public officials attending included Dr. Grady Stumbo, Hazard mayor Bill Gorman, and Pike County Judge Paul Patton. The opening talk was given by U.S. Rep. Chris Perkins. The conference was organized by the "Knott County group," including former state Rep. Bill Weinberg, state Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, and Mike Mullins, director of the Hindman Settlement School. An Economic Summit was held in July 1989 for representatives of the twenty-two mountain counties; and, on October 8, 1989, approximately seventy-five mayors, county judge executives, legislators, and business leaders from the Economic Summit met in Prestonsburg to organize an East Kentucky Economic Development Commission. The primary purpose of this commission was the creation of jobs for eastern Kentuckians.

In 1990, the General Assembly created the East Kentucky Economic Development and Job Creation Corporation to serve forty-three counties in eastern Kentucky. Percy Elkins was named to coordinate the jobs program. A reception and dinner was held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1990 for leaders of corporations involved in coal, oil, gas, utilities, railroads, banking, and manufacturing in order to raise $1.2 million to start a regional economic development fund.

The file contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and memos concerning meetings. Articles by Caudill are included.

vii Eastern Kentucky Housing

Includes clippings, correspondence, and proposals by various groups, such as the Council of the Southern Mountains, relating to possible solutions for housing problems.

viii Eastern Kentucky Public Power Development

Includes correspondence and other information on groups and individuals interested in establishing a power generating plant in eastern Kentucky including Senator John Sherman Cooper (KY), Gordon Ebersole from the Department of the Interior, and the American Public Power Association. Appeals were made to Under Secretary of Commerce, Franklin D. Roosevelt., Jr., by Caudill, Stewart Udall, the Secretary of the Interior, and others for endorsement of the idea by the President's Appalachian Regional Commission(PARC). Roosevelt, however, did not recommend the plan. Caudill retained his interest in development of power plants with his involvement in the Congress for Appalachian Development and the Yankee-Dixie Power Association.

Includes documents about the Mountain Parkway and the Whitesburg by-pass. Caudill thought that improved roads would help stimulate the local economy.

ix Junked Cars

Correspondence with Gene Foley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce regarding the problem of junked cars along eastern Kentucky roadsides.

x Kentucky Appalachian Foundation (KAF)

Formed for the purpose of establishing and developing the cultural, educational, and economic needs of eastern Kentucky, organizers of the foundation included John Hall, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Ashland Oil, Inc.; G.B. Johnson, Chairman of the Board, First American Bank; Robert E. Matthews, President and Chief Operating Officer, Kentucky Power Company; and Dr. Morris Norfleet, President Emeritus, Morehead State University. More than seventy corporate officers were invited to a meeting in Ashland in January 1987 since KAF stressed business rather than political leadership. Each member was asked to pay $1000 in membership fees and serve on one of three task forces: education, quality of life, and economic development. Caudill served on the education task force. The file consists primarily of correspondence between Caudill and other members.

xi Kentucky River Basin Steering Committee

This group, chaired by Scotty Baesler, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, looked at various alternatives for the future of the Kentucky River as a water source for central Kentucky. Options considered included building "off site" reservoirs in eastern Kentucky, getting water from Louisville, and increasing the height of locks and dams already on the main stem of the Kentucky River. In the summer of 1989, the Steering Committee, the Kentucky River Task Force, and the Citizens Task Force on the Development of the Kentucky River traveled to Hazard to discuss various issues and concerns about the river with eastern Kentucky citizens, community leaders, and elected officials. The file contains Steering Committee correspondence and newspaper clippings about the Kentucky River's future including articles written by Caudill.

xii Letcher County/Eastern Kentucky Trash Disposal

Many people, including Caudill, saw the trash-strewn highways, rivers, and creeks as detrimental to attracting industry to the region. The file contains correspondence with Malcolm Holliday, executive director of the Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) in 1972. The file documents focus on strict legislation passed by the Letcher County Fiscal Court in 1988. Articles by Caudill are also included.

xiii Letcher County Planning Commission

The primary function was to prepare plans for the orderly growth of the towns of Jenkins and Fleming-Neon and Letcher County in general. Since Whitesburg had its own planning commission, it was not included.

xiv Migration

xv National Rural Housing Coalition

The Coalition held its first membership meeting on October 31, 1969, and formally announced its creation on February 7, 1970. Honorary chairmen were Senators George McGovern and Charles E. Goodell and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. The Coalition's intent was to increase awareness of the sub-standard housing of many rural people and to develop and support legislation for funding low-income housing programs in rural areas.

xvi Project Two Thousand and Ten

This proposal for the economic development of Martin, Magoffin, Johnson, and Floyd counties, prepared by Gerald V. Banks, GUB Consulting, Elgin, Illinois, was a long-range plan for creating job facilities connected with the Big Sandy Regional Airport (then under development) as a regional transportation center.

Other suggestions included a recreation complex, a shopping mall, a training center for continuing adult education, a health care center, and an industrial park. The file contains Banks' correspondence with Caudill and the project proposal.

xvii Scientists and Engineers for Appalachia

Caudill spoke at this group's first meeting on April 25, 1970, in Berea, Kentucky, and participated in some of their subsequent meetings. Officially incorporated on May 21, 1970, the group's aim was to provide discussions regarding advancements in science and technology for the enrichment of life in Appalachia. For this purpose, the SEA Bulletin began bimonthly publication on July 1, 1971. A volunteer consultant list of scientific and technological specialties was developed from their membership list.

xviii Whitesburg/Letcher County Industrial Foundation

This nonprofit corporation's objective was to stimulate manufacturing and commercial activity in Whitesburg and Letcher County.

xix Whitesburg/Letcher County Water Project

Submitted to the Department of Local Government, the Community Development Block Grant Program, and the Farmers Home Administration, this project was an attempt to obtain 93% funding for an improved and expanded public water system for Whitesburg and Letcher County. The Appalachian Regional Commission was asked to fund the remaining amount. The file consists of correspondence between Caudill, Nesbitt Engineering, and other persons and agencies interested in the project.

xx Wood Using Industries

Caudill was always concerned with eastern Kentucky's economic dependence on the coal industry. He advocated diversification by establishing wood using industries including furniture, floor, and molding factories. Development groups that offered to help support his ideas by providing loans and other assistance included the Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) in Hazard and the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development(MACED). The file includes correspondence with R. Percy Elkins, executive director of KRADD, and Troy Eslinger, interim executive director of MACED, and clippings of articles by Caudill and others about wood industries.

xxi Yankee-Dixie Power Association

The plan of this group was to build mine-mouth steam generating plants in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Alabama in order to form a large public-owned power cooperative for Appalachia. Costs of transporting power would be far less than the cost of transporting coal, the group reasoned, and coal-generated power could supply the entire eastern U.S. Lockheed did some of the original studies but lost interest in participating. R.R. Popham of the New York engineering firm, Laramore, Douglas, and Popham was instrumental in setting up a meeting of munincipal and public power representatives in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 1965. Hugh Spurlock of East Kentucky Rural Electric in Winchester, Kentucky, served as chair. Articles of incorporation were filed in Kentucky on November 15, 1965. Caudill's interest in public power development shifted to the Congress for Appalachian Development. [For related materials, see the files on "Eastern Kentucky Public Power Development" in Box 10.]

i General

Correspondence, clippings, and letters to the editor concerning Caudill's continuing interest in improving the education of Kentuckians.

ii Appalachian Student Fund, Inc

This organization's purpose was to loan money to college students who intended to live and work in one of forty eastern Kentucky counties after graduation. The group considered the guidelines used by the Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Fund, Inc., in developing the conditions for their loans. For every year a loan recipient lived and worked in one of the designated counties, one year of the loan would be forgiven. Jerry F. Howell, Jr., served as executive director. Honorary board members included Caudill and former governor Bert Combs. The file contains minutes of the November 3, 1990, meeting, a loan application stating conditions of the loans, and information on the Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Fund, Inc.

iii Corns' Decision

In 1989, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky's entire school system was unconstitutional and ordered the General Assembly to re-create, re-establish, and fund a totally new system. The General Assembly was to assume that property tax was assessed on all property at 100% of its value. The file includes the court decision, including dissenting opinions, correspondence concerning it, and articles by Caudill and others about possible reforms.

iv Governor's Council on Education Reform

In 1984, Caudill was appointed by Governor Martha Layne Collins to review previous educational studies and propose a new course of action. He did not support the council's final recommendation.

v House Special Committee to Investigate Education February 23-March 10, 1960

Authorized by House Resolution 55, adopted on February 11, 1960, the committee was composed of seven members of the House of Representatives. Harry Caudill was the chair and Marlowe Cook the vice-chair. Hearings were held from February 23-March 9. Recommendations were made in the March 10 final report regarding five areas: supervision of school administration, district organizations, teachers, school finance, and administration of the Minimum Foundation program. The Special Commission on Education was authorized as a result of these recommendations. [For related materials, see "General Assembly" under the heading "Politics" in Box 27.]

vi Special Commission on Education

Authorized by House Bill 383, nine members were appointed for 2-4 year terms by Governor Bert Combs on June 10, 1960. Interests of the commission were wide-ranging, including teacher certification, training and salary scales, curriculum and extracurricular activities, politics in school systems, and physical facilities. Studies were conducted by Booz, Allen, and Hamilton (on school systems in general, with an emphasis on administration); the Associated Consultants in Education (on foundation programs); and the Curriculum Committee, composed of twelve Kentucky educators--three from public schools and nine from colleges and universities. Recommendations from the commission were modified and incorporated into an omnibus educational bill (probably House Bill 207) in 1962. Caudill's term expired in June 1962. [The Special Commission on Education was preceded by the House Special Committee to Investigate Education. See related materials in Box 14, Folders 3-5.]

vii Miscellaneous

i General

Includes correspondence and clippings on environmental topics not included elsewhere in this section. For example: water pollution, floods, overweight coal trucks, reforestation, the U.S. Forest Service, TVA, and garbage disposal. Many of these are strip mining-related issues, too, so see files on "Strip Mining" for other pertinent documents.

ii Bad Branch Falls

Includes correspondence and clippings on acquisition of a natural preserve in Letcher Co. by the Nature Conservancy. The conservancy buys land to save the habitats of endangered species.

iii Kentucky Earthquake Possibilities

iv Kingdom Come Reservoir

Documents successful local opposition to a dam site proposed by the U.S. Army Core of Engineers near Ulvah in Letcher County.

v Letcher County Soil Conservation District

Caudill served on the Board of Supervisors August 31, 1962-December 31, 1964.

vi Lilley's Woods

Documents the fight, by Caudill and others, to save and preserve a tract of virgin forest on Linefork Creek in Letcher County. Groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society were involved, as well as Mary and Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal.

vii Northern Plains Resource Council

The Caudills worked extensively with this non-profit environmentalist group to prevent the Appalachian environmental disasters from being repeated in the West. Topics covered include strip mining, corporate land ownership, severance and unmined mineral taxes, water pollution, agriculture, and rights of Native Americans.

viii Red River Gorge Dam

Documents the fight to save the scenic eastern Kentucky Red River Gorge from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' proposed dam. Opposition was both local and national--from organizing valley residents, to the active involvement of the Sierra Club, to editorials in the New York Times. Caudill participated by using his national media contacts, writing letters to legislators like Senator John Sherman Cooper, guiding people through the Gorge, and publishing an article in Audubon, in the fall of 1968.

ix Strip Mining

x White House Conference on Natural Beauty, May 22-24, 1965

Caudill was invited to attend this conference and serve on the "Reclamation of the Landscape" panel. The file includes working papers, the official proceedings from the conference, and correspondence.

i General

Correspondence, clippings, election returns, and campaign literature on a wide range of primarily Kentucky-related political interests. [Broadsides of Kentucky politicians Doug Hays and A. J. May were removed and placed in the Modern Political Papers collection, located in the Division of Special Collections and Archives.]

ii Bert Combs Gubernatorial Race

iii Happy Chandler Gubernatorial Primary

iv George Atkins Gubernatorial Primary

Speeches by and correspondence from Caudill supporting Atkins, who was defeated by John Y. Brown, Jr., in the Democratic primary.

v Election Reform, 1987-1988

In October 1987, the Louisville Courier-Journal ran a series of articles dealing with problems in Kentucky's political process and calling for the Attorney General and the legislative leadership to institute election reform measures. After his election, Fred Cowan formed his Attorney General's Vote Fraud Task Force. The investigative body of the General Assembly, the Legislative Research Commission, formed a Special Commission on Election Reform on December 2, 1987. The Special Commission had three sub-committees: campaign financing, conduct of elections, and enforcement. Caudill served on the sub-committee dealing with conduct of elections until May 12, 1988, when he resigned. The Attorney General's Task Force and the Special Commission met and issued joint recommendations for election reform as well as individual reports. Some of the Special Commission's recommendations were included in SB 268, passed by the General Assembly. However, many of the recommendations were deleted along the way.

The file includes the Louisville Courier-Journal series of articles, the January 1988 interim report of the Special Commission, the final report of December 1988, and joint recommendations of the Special Commission and Attorney General's Task Force.

vi General Assembly

Caudill was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1953, 1955, and 1959. In 1959, he was defeated in the Democratic primary, but the winner died before the general election and Caudill was appointed as Democratic candidate. During the 1957-58 period, when he was not a member of the House, he maintained interest in the legislative proceedings. While he filed for office again in 1963, poor health forced him to withdraw. In addition, he served on several important educational committees from 1960-62; related materials are in the "Education" files, Boxes 14-15.

vii Letcher County Politics

Correspondence and clippings relating to local political figures and issues.

i General

Includes articles, correspondence and clippings that reflect economic conditions in Appalachia. Also includes correspondence between the Caudills and other individuals and organizations that worked toward fighting the War on Poverty and clippings about public reaction to the "poverty problem." In addition, clippings about President Johnson's visit to the region in the spring of 1964 and Senator Robert F. Kennedy's visit to eastern Kentucky on February 13-15, 1968, are included.

ii Organizations

iii Programs

iv Related Materials

i Death Sentence

ii Gun Control

iii Mine Health and Safety

Correspondence and clippings about various topics, including black lung and the Scotia mine disaster.

iv Moonshining

v Shakertown Roundtable

This nonprofit independent corporation was established by Earl Wallace, a native Kentuckian and internationally known oil engineer. After retirement, he returned to Kentucky and solicited donations nationally to restore Shakertown Village near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. In 1977, the Shakertown Roundtable began holding annual forums to educate the public on issues pertinent to Kentucky, such as higher education economic development and the overall state of the Commonwealth. Funding sources included the Mary and Barry Bingham, Sr. Fund and the Kentucky Economic Development Corporation headed by W T. Young. Participants included former governor Bert Combs and historian Thomas Clark.

Caudill attended several roundtables and served on the steering Committee for the 1987 session. The files include correspondence with Earl Wallace, papers presented at meetings, and summaries of various sessions. Most of the material is about the November 8-9, 1987, roundtable, "State of the Commonwealth."

vi Southeast Community College (Whitesburg, Kentucky)

This extension of Southeast Community College was developed by the Whitesburg Education Development Foundation, Inc., on whose board Harry Caudill served. The new college was established in a renovated Coca-Cola bottling plant. The bulk of the one million dollars needed for the renovation came from donations of corporations and individuals in the community. The campus opened for classes in the fall of 1990 with an enrollment of 382 students.

vii Taxation

Clippings and correspondence about tax issues in the coalfields: severance tax, unmined mineral tax, and property tax (i.e. unfair assessment of real estate).

viii United Mine Workers of America

ix United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds

x University of Kentucky Basketball Case

xi Vietnam War Opposition

xii Wayne Cannel Coal Company

Includes contracts, correspondence, and financial materials concerning Caudill's business interest in this company.

xiii Wenner-Gren Protest

When Caudill was a student at the University of Kentucky in 1945, he and two other student-veterans, L. L. Booth and Robert B. Eastburn, circulated a petition objecting to the actions of the University's trustees regarding Alex Leonard Wenner-Gren. In 1940, Swedish industrialist Wenner-Gren had presented a gift of $155,600 to the University to equip an aeronautical laboratory. Except for two rooms, Wenner-Gren's Mawen Motor Company had exclusive use of the laboratory. In 1942, the U S. Government blacklisted Wenner-Gren for selling aircraft to Nazi Germany. University trustees tried to have Wenner-Gren's name removed from the blacklist and placed his name on a campus building. The file contains petitions and newspaper clippings.

xiv Additional Clippings [miscellaneous subjects]

i General

ii Westover

Jane and Huston Westover were long-time friends of the Caudills. [Anne Caudill added these files after the organization of this collection was nearly completed; thus, these letters were not integrated into the "General" correspondence above.]

iii Rosenblum [Other correspondence with Beverley and James Rosenblum of Louisville, Kentucky, is filed in the "General" correspondence above.]

iv Frye Family [Anne Frye Caudill's family]

October 6, 1960-December 30, 1963

January 2, 1964-February 29, 1964

March 2, 1964-April 30, 1964

May 5, 1964-July 31, 1964

August 5, 1964-December 29, 1964

January 4, 1965-March 31, 1965

April 1, 1965-June 30, 1965

July 2, 1965-September 29, 1965

October 1, 1965-December 23, 1965

January 7, 1966-March 31, 1966

April 1, 1966-June 30, 1966

July 3, 1966-September 29, 1966

October 3, 1966-December 28, 1966

January 2, 1967-March 31, 1967

April 3, 1967-June 29, 1967

July 7, 1967-September 28, 1967

October 2, 1967-December 29, 1967

January 3, 1968-March 27, 1968

April 1, 1968-July 27, 1968

August 3, 1968-December 20, 1968

January 3, 1969-April 30, 1969

May 1, 1969-September 30, 1969

October 3, 1969-December 18, 1969

January 8, 1970-February 27, 1970

March 1, 1970-April 30, 1970

May 1, 1970-June 30, 1970

July 1, 1970-September, 30, 1970

October 1, 1970-December 31, 1970

January 4, 1971-March 31, 1971

April 1, 1971-May 31, 1971

June 3, 1971-September 27, 1971

October 5, 1971-December 29, 1971

January 3, 1972-March 31, 1972

April 3, 1972-July 30, 1972

August 2, 1972-September 28, 1972

October 2, 1972-December 30, 1972

January 5, 1973-March 30, 1973

April 3, 1973-June 27, 1973

July 16, 1973-December 28, 1973

January 6, 1974-February 28, 1974

March 1, 1974-May 31, 1974

June 1, 1974-August 27, 1974

September 3, 1974-December 28, 1974

January 2, 1975-March 26, 1975

April 5, 1975-June 28, 1975

July 1, 1975-September 29, 1975

October 2, 1975-December 28, 1975

January 4, 1976-April 30, 1976

May 18, 1976-September 28, 1976

October 3, 1976-December 30, 1976

January 10, 1977-March 29, 1977

April 4, 1977-August 9, 1977

September 14, 1977-December 17, 1977

January 10, 1978-May 22, 1978

June 9, 1978-August 30, 1978

September 3, 1978-December 13, 1978

January 15, 1979-February 23, 1979

March 2, 1979-April 28, 1979

May 9, 1979-July 31, 1979

August 1, 1979-Septemiber 28, 1979

October 11, 1979-December 21, 1979

January 8, 1980-March 29, 1980

April 2, 1980-April 30, 1980

May 6, 1980-May 31, 1980

June 9, 1980-July 29, 1980

August 3, 1980-September 30, 1980

October 2, 1980-December 12, 1980

January 19, 1981-August 18, 1981

August 21, 1981-December 28, 1981

January 15, 1982-August 31, 1982

September 16, 1982-December 4, 1982

January 3, 1983-April 12, 1983

May 25, 1983-August 5, 1983

September 7, 1983-December 7, 1983

January 12, 1984-December 20, 1984

January 8, 1985-December 31, 1986

January 8, 1987-November 30, 1987

January 6, 1988-November 30, 1988

January 23, 1989-October 23, 1990

N.d

i Books

ii Dark Hills to Westward (Little-Brown, 1969)

iii My Land is Dying (E.P. Dutton, 1971)

iv The Senator from Slaughter County (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973)

v A Darkness at Dawn (University Press of Kentucky, 1976)

vi Watches of the Night (Atlantic Monthly Press)

vii The Mountain, The Miner, and The Lord: Tales From a Country Law Office (University Press of Kentucky, 1980)

viii Theirs Be The Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky (University of Illinois Press, 1983)

ix Lester's Progress (Kentucke Imprints, 1986)

x Slender is the Thread: More Tales from a Country Law Office (University Press of Kentucky, 1987)

xi Articles

The Caudills organized correspondence regarding specific articles as below. These are arranged chronologically by publishing date. Correspondence about all other articles is in the "General" section following this one, beginning at Box 60.

xii Foreword

xiii General

These boxes contain letters from publishers to solicit articles and book reviews or from fellow authors to invite collaboration on books; requests for permission to reprint in full or part, or to include in anthologies and encyclopedias, previously published articles or speeches by Caudill; and Caudill's reactions to articles and those about him from individuals and organizations. Also included are correspondence with publishers, magazine and newspaper editors, journalists, and other writers about writing. Materials relating to book fairs and cover letters accompanying articles submitted to journals for publication are located here as well.

xiv Miscellaneous

These folders contain correspondence regarding two magazine articles about Caudill.

January 19, 1977-December 7, 1977

January 1, 1978-December 17, 1979

January 15, 1980-December 19, 1980

January 6, 1981-December 23, 1981

January 4, 1982-December 22, 1982

February 2, 1983-April 27, 1986; N.d

October 16, 1967-1977; N.d

i A Darkness At Dawn (University Press of Kentucky, 1976)

"A11 Was Not Roses For Constitution's Founding Fathers." [research notes only for article in Mountain Eagle, June 10, 1987]

"Appalachia and the Future--Why Not A New Switzerland?" [draft of "Appalachia: America's Exploited Colony." Interplay, May 1969]

"The Appalachian Dilemma--Rags Among Riches." [published as "Dilemma in Appalachia-Rags Amidst Riches," Kentucky School Journal, January 1966]

"The Appalachian Horror." [draft of "The Rape of the Appalachians." Atlantic Monthly, April 1962]

"Appalachian Life and Corporate Responsibility." [draft; published under same title, National Forum, Summer 1978]

"Appalachian Redevelopment-Hope or Hoax?" [draft of "Misdeal in Appalachia," Atlantic Monthly, June 1965]

"An Appalachian Switzerland--Beyond the Minimal in Regional Development." [draft of "An Appalachian Switzerland," Appalachian South, Spring and Summer 1967]

"An Appalachian Woodland." [draft of "Lilly's Wood," Audubon, May/June, 1967]

"Appalachia--The Rhetoric and the Reality." [draft of "The Corporate Fiefdom," Commonweal, Vol. 89, no. 16 (January 24, 1969)]

"Are Capitalism and the Conservation of a Decent Environment Compatible?" [published in Agenda for Survival: The Environmental Crisis--2, edited by Harold W. Helfrich, Yale University Press, 1970; also includes printer's proofs]

"Biography of James Laviers and diary of Thomas and James Laviers, 1863, Written while on board the Vanguard, a sailing vessel." [introduction; copy of the diary in "Research Materials," Box 79 Folder 2; published in the Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 65, no.3 (July 1991)]

"Can We Survive Strip Mining?" [draft of "Farming and Mining." Atlantic Monthly, December 1973]

"The Dreadful Choice." [draft of "Coal, Nuclear Power Are Poor Choices for Future Energy," Kentucky Kernel, October 14, 1982]

"Eastern Kentucky--Its Poverty and Potential." [published as "Hope for Appalachia," Public Power, December 1963]

"Education: The Architects of the Kentucky Disaster." [published as "'Experts' to Blame for Education Problems," Lexington Herald-Leader, June 30, 1985]

"Enough Is Enough In West Virginia." [published as "Buffalo Creek Aftermath." Saturday Review, August 26, 1972]

"The Epic Coal Strike: The Coming Break-Down in an Essential Industry." [published as "American Serfdom: The Backward Coal Industry," Atlantic, June 1978]

"Farming and Mining." [printer's proofs; published in Ag World, Vol. 1, no. 1 (February 1975)]

"Farming and Mining--The Crisis of Irreconcilable Imperatives." [published as "Farming and Mining: There is No Land to Spare," Atlantic, September 1973]

"For the Tennessee Forum." [published as "Together They're Goin' to Burn the Whole Place Down," Tennessee Forum, October 1967]

"The Forest of Eastern Kentucky." [published as "The Forests of Eastern Kentucky," Mountain Eagle, September 23, 1987]

"The Forgotten Crisis." [draft of "Strip Mining--Coast to Coast." The Nation, April 19, 1971]

"How an Election Was Bought and Sold." [draft and printers' proofs; published under same title, Harper's, Vol. 221, no. 1325 (October 1960)]

"How Shall We Tame Our Spades?" [published as "Our Maimed Land," Defenders of Wildlife, June 1975]

"The Hungry Hills." [January 1963; never published]

"Industrial Wastelands and the Great Society--A National Policy on Strip-Mining." [draft of "Paradise is Stripped," New York Times Sunday Magazine, March 13, 1966]

"Jaded Old Land of Bright New Promise." [published in Mountain Life and Work, Vol. 46, no. 3 (March 1970)]

"John C.C. Mayo." [published as "Mayo, John Caldwell Calhoun." in Kentucky Encyclopedia, Univ. Press of KY, June 1992]

"Johnson Newlon Camden, Sr. and Johnson Newlon Camden, Jr." [published as "Camden, Johnson Newlon, Jr.," in Kentucky Encyclopedia, Univ. Press of Ky, June 1992]

"Justice for America's Rural Poor." [published as "How to End Rural Poverty," Newsday, February 28, 1968]

"The Land as Therapy." [published in Manas, October 14, 1987]

"The Lesson of Eastern Kentucky--Employment or Revolution? [published as "The Permanent Poor: The Lesson of Eastern Kentucky," Atlantic Monthly, June 1964]

"Lilley's Wood." [published in Audubon, May/June 1967]

"Man: The Geologic Cataclysm." [draft; submitted to Atlantic and Audubon; never published]

"The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord." [contains title story of what later became a collection published by University Press of Kentucky, 1980]

"The Mountaineers in the Affluent Society." [draft; published under same title in National Parks, July 1971]

"Must We Drown Kentucky's Red River Gorge?" [draft of "A Wild River That Knew Boone Awaits Its Fate," Audubon, September/October 1968]

"A New Plan for a Southern Mountain Authority." [published in Appalachian Review, Summer 1966]

"An 'Operation Bootstrap' for Eastern Kentucky." [published in Appalachian South, Spring 1966]

"The Problem: Poor Schools or Indifferent Parents?" [published in Lexington Herald-Leader, September 13, 1987]

"Reflections on Poverty in America." [draft; published under same title in PTA Magazine, June 1964; also presented as a speech at a meeting of the Massachusetts Welfare Association, 1965]

"A Solution for East Kentucky's Ills." [draft; published as "The Path from Disaster," in The Nation, March 9, 1964]

"Some Old Proposals on School Reform." [published as "Get Control of Classrooms, Then Use Common Sense About Studies," Lexington Herald-Leader, June 13, 1989]

"Strip-Mining: America's Unnoticed Ecological Disaster." [draft; published as "Orphans of Greed: Strip Mining--Our Unnoticed Ecological Disaster," Ecology Today, March 1971]

"Strip Mining: Partnership in Greed." [published in American Forests, May 1973]

"Stumpage Tax on Timber Needed." [published as "Kentucky Hills Pay a Price For Timber Boom," in Kentucky Journal, Vol.2, no. 8 (November 1990)]

"Syn Fuels Folly." [published as "Syn Fuels Folly: Coal--The Pall in the Panacea," The Nation, November 22, 1980; and as "Synthetic Fuels a Foolish Dream," Chicago Tribune, December 3, 1980]

"They Climbed the Highest Mountains: The Success Story in the Eastern Kentucky Exodus." [published in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Spring 1985]

Untitled [published as "The Plight of Eastern Kentucky," in Review of Government, by the University of Kentucky Bureau of Research, February, 1964]

Untitled [published as "Power and Affluence in Appalachia," Appalachian South, Vol.1, no.2 (Fall and Winter 1965)]

Untitled [published as guest editorial, "Lexington's Survival Tied to Strip Mining in East Kentucky," Lexington Herald, January 4, 1972]

Untitled [published as "Italy's a Wonderful Place in General," L'eco, February 1972]

Untitled [published as "Power Plants and Mines--A Deadly Combination," Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1972]

Untitled [published as Chapter 4a in American Government Today, 1974, under title: "Perspective: Appalachia;" and as "0, Appalachia!" Intellectual Digest, April 1973]

Untitled [draft; published as "Keeping Wealth at Home," People and Land, Summer 1973]

Untitled [published as "The Kentucky and Its Tributaries: A Dump Running Hundreds of Miles," Lexington Herald-Leader, August 20, 1989]

"Vaca's Warning: Is a Dark Age Coming?" [draft of "Vaca's 'Dark Age' Predictions Ring True as Economics Fall," Kentucky Kernel, February 11, 1983]

"The View From Herod's Rock." [Spring 1968; submitted to Atlantic; rejected June 3, 1968]

"VISTA's Appalachian Mission." [published as "VISTA's Mission in Appalachia," VISTA Volunteer, December 1965]

"Where the Buck Stops in Eastern Kentucky." [published as "Mountaineers Heal Thyselves!" Lexington Herald-Leader, July 12, 1987]

"Will Kentucky Coal Go Down the Chute With the Oil Companies?" [published in Kentucky Coal Journal, March 1986]

House Bill Number 401, House of Representatives, Frankfort, Kentucky, March 1, 1960

Before the North Central Field Committee, Department of the Interior, Whitesburg, Kentucky, May 13, 1964

Before the Senate Committee on Public Works on the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1964, June 24, 1964

Delivered at White House Conference on Natural Beauty, Panel on Reclamation of the Landscape, May 23, 1965

Testimony before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources, General Assembly, Commonwealth of Kentucky, January 20, 1966

Draft before the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations, Commission on Balanced Economic Development, June 12, 1967

Before the U.S. Senate Special Sub-Committee on Manpower and Poverty, Neon, Kentucky, February 14, 1968

Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, April 30, 1968

Before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, Fleming, Kentucky, September 12, 1969

"A Plea for a National Policy on Surface Mining." Before the Sub-Committee on Mines and Mining, House of Representatives, United States Congress, October 1971

Before the Sub-Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources, Denver, Colorado, June 20, 1972

Before the Governor's Council on Educational Reform, University of Kentucky, December 12, 1984

"The Tiger in Our Streets." [delivered to Soil Conservation District Banquet, Whitesburg, Kentucky] March 22, 1963

"Eastern Kentucky--Its Present Plight and Its Future Promise." [before the faculties of the Southeast Center of the University of Kentucky and the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Bell County] September 2, 1963

"The Crisis of Our Time--Useful Employment Or Violent Revolution." [before the student body of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky] October 10, 1963

"Eastern Kentucky--Shame and Challenge." [before National Democratic Women's Club, Washington, D.C.] February 28, 1964

"Folly of the Fast Buck Ruins More Land Than Scourge of War." [delivered at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky] March 19, 1964

Untitled [delivered at Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky] April 21, 1964

Untitled [High School Commencements-Corbin, McDowell, and Cordia, Kentucky] May 1964

Untitled [delivered to National Rural Electrification Co-operative Corporation, Region III, Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky] November 10, 1964

Untitled [delivered to the N.R.E Co-operative Corporation Regional Convention, Brown Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky] November 22, 1964

"The People of Appalachia and Their Problems." [delivered at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky] December 10, 1964

"The People of Appalachia and Their Problems." [delivered at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky] May 4, 1965

Untitled [delivered at Yankee-Dixie Power Association Meeting, Washington, D.C.] November 18, 1965

"Reflections on Poverty in America." [delivered to Massachusetts Welfare Association] 1965

"The Depressed Area in the Expanding American Society." [delivered at Ohio University, Kennedy Lectures, Athens, Ohio] April 7, 1966

"Human Factors in Economic Development." [delivered at the Regional Economic Development Seminar, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts] August 2, 1966

Untitled [delivered at Illinois Oil & Gas Association Annual Convention, Salem, Illinois] September 28, 1966

Untitled [delivered at Massachusetts Conference on Social Welfare, Boston, Massachusetts] November 30, 1966

"Education for a New Appalachia." [delivered at the Graduate School, University of Tennessee] April 20, 1967

"The Target Group in Appalachia." [delivered at Public Employment Services Conference, sponsored by the West Virginia University Institute of Labor Studies, Charleston, West Virginia] May 4, 1967

"Ozarkan-Appalachian Poverty." [delivered at National Conference on Objectives for the Culturally Disadvantaged, South Carolina Region Educational Laboratory, Hot Springs, Arkansas] September 7-8, 1967

"A Coalition for the Land." [delivered at the Annual Convention of Tennessee Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Knoxville, Tennessee] October 24, 1967

"A Coalition for the Land." [delivered in Indiana] c. October 1967

Untitled [delivered at the National Educational Association Task Force on Human Rights Hearings, Washington, D.C.] January 8, 1968

"The Law, Lawyers, and Appalachia." [delivered at the Conference on Legal Services of the West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia] March 18, 1968

"Appalachia's Future--Development or Depopulation." [delivered at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia] June 7, 1968

"Conservation: The New Imperative." [delivered at the Garden Club of Louisville Zone VII Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky] October 2, 1969

Untitled [delivered at Kentucky Press Association Winter Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky] January 24, 1970

"Are Capitalism and the Conservation of a Decent Environment Compatible?" [delivered at the Seminar on Basic Issues in the Environmental Crisis, School of Forestry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut] April 1, 1970

"Appalachia and the Environmental Crises." [delivered at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] April 3, 1970

Untitled [delivered at Spalding College, Louisville, Kentucky] May 14, 1970

Untitled [delivered at Seminar on the Environment, Junior League, Louisville, Kentucky] May 6, 1971

"Across the Generation Gap." [delivered at Brescia College, Owensboro, Kentucky] May 9, 1971

Untitled [delivered at Berea College Graduation, Berea, Kentucky] May 23, 1971

"The Environment: A Personal Commitment." [delivered at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC] c. 1971

"The New Imperative: A National Policy on Surface Mining in the United States." [delivered at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama] February 25, 1972

"Appalachia's Deepening Malaise." [delivered at Milliken College, Decatur, Illinois] March 1, 1973

Untitled [delivered at First National Conference on Land Reform, San Francisco, California] April 25-27, 1973

"Farming and Mining--The Crisis of Irreconcilable Differences." [delivered at Kansas Farmers' Union Annual Convention] November 1973

"Appalachia--An Over-View." [an address to international students, delivered at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee] December 10, 1973

"This Land is Your Land." [delivered at forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Chamber of Commerce, Hopkinsville, Kentucky] January 25, 1975

Untitled [delivered at William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa] February 10, 1975

Untitled [delivered to Alberta Fish and Game Association, Edmonton, Canada] February 28, 1975

Untitled [delivered at Sue Bennett Folk Festival, Sue Bennett College, London, Kentucky] April 2, 1975

Untitled [delivered to Kentucky Young Historians, Georgetown, Kentucky] April 25, 1975

"The Appalachian Future." [delivered at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky] June 30, 1976

"What Are We Going to Do With West Virginia?" [delivered at West Liberty College, West Liberty, West Virginia] January 5, 1977

Untitled [delivered at Kentucky/Tennessee American Studies Conference, Cumberland Falls State Park, Kentucky] April 1, 1977

Untitled [delivered to Kentucky Psychiatric Association, Spindletop Hall, Lexington, Kentucky] April 28, 1977

Untitled [delivered in acceptance of Weatherford Award, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky] May 3, 1977

Untitled [delivered at Lexington Technical Institute Graduation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky] May 8, 1977

"Preserving the Quality of Life in the South." [delivered at conference at the Center for the Study of Southern History and Culture, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama] April 29, 1978

"The Carrying Capacity of the Earth." [delivered at the Aldo Leopold Memorial Colloquium, the Institute for Environment Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison] August 8, 1978

"The Appalachian Dilemma: A Fresh Approach to an Old Problem." [delivered at Charleston, West Virginia] August 24, 1978

Untitled [delivered at the first Appalachian Land Festival, Jackson's Mill, West Virginia] October 28, 1978

"Eastern Kentucky and the History of Our Commonwealth." [delivered to Kentucky Historical Society, Boone Day, Old State House, Frankfort, Kentucky] June 7, 1979

"The Mining Industries' Unpaid Debt to Appalachia." [delivered to the Department of History and Philosophy, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] November 9,1979

"Coal: The Black Threat." [delivered to Association of American Geographers, Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky] April 13, 1980

"Jesse Stuart--From Appalachia to the World." [delivered for the Jesse Stuart Foundation, Greenbo Lake State Resort, Greenup, Kentucky] May 22, 1980

"The Future: Kentucky and Energy." [delivered to League of Women Voters, Lexington, Kentucky] January 22, 1981

"John Caldwell Calhoun Mayo--Most Surprising and Noteworthy of Eastern Kentucky's Native Sons." [delivered to Lexington Rotary Club, Lexington, Kentucky] October 1, 1981

"Pitfalls in a Coal-Fired World." [delivered at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky] November 11, 1981

Untitled [delivered at Virginia Highlands Festival, Abingdon, Virginia] August 4, 1982

"Medical Malingering and the Public Purse." [delivered at the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky] October 13, 1982

"The Dreadful Choice." [delivered at United Nations Day Celebrations, Frankfort, Kentucky] October 24, 1982; and to the Bluegrass Chapter, Kentucky Soil Conservation Administration, Lexington, Kentucky] December 3, 1982

"Coal--The Pall in the Panacea." [delivered to the Kentucky Chapter of the Sierra Club, Shakertown, near Harrodsburg, Kentucky] December 4, 1982

Untitled [delivered at Montgomery County High School, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky] June 13, 1983

"Kentucky in a Fast-Changing Global Market." [delivered at first Governor's Scholars Program, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky] July 25, 1983

"The Sociological and Philosophical Nature of Appalachia." [delivered to Cumberland Mountain UniServ, Abingdon, Virginia] August 2, 1983

"Medicine and the Social Malingerer." [delivered to Kentucky Medical Association, Lexington, Kentucky] October 11, 1983

"They Climbed the Highest Mountain: The Success Story in the Eastern Kentucky Exodus." [delivered at the S.E. Magnetic Resource Conference, Spindletop Hall, Lexington, Kentucky] October 4, 1986

"Education for Appalachia's Future." [delivered at Sue Bennett College, London, Kentucky] October 31, 1984

"Kentucky Faces the Future." [delivered at Maysville Community College, Maysville, Kentucky] December 12, 1984

"Why Money Alone Will Not Bring Good Schools to Kentucky." [delivered to Kentucky Associated Press Editors, Sheraton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky] May 16, 1985

Untitled [delivered on Kentucky Educational Television, Lexington, Kentucky] August 8, 1985

Untitled [delivered to the Jackson Woman's Club, Senior Citizens Building, Jackson, Kentucky] March 7, 1986

Introduction of David McCullough [delivered at Spindletop Hall, Lexington, Kentucky, to University of Kentucky Library Associates- Edward F. Pritchard, Jr. Lecture] March 11, 1986

"Politics: The Damndest in Kentucky." [delivered to Fleming County Soil Conservation District, Flemingsburg High School, Flemingsburg, Kentucky] March 25, 1986

Untitled [delivered at dedication of Shonert Collection, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky] March 27, 1986

"Twenty-Four Years After Night Comes to the Cumberlands." [delivered to University of Kentucky Women's Club, Lexington, Kentucky] October 28, 1986

Untitled [delivered at the banquet and roast in honor of Harry Caudill, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky] October 30, 1986 [See also Box 3, Folder 4, for more materials on this Event.]

"Now We Must Save Ourselves." [delivered to KRADD (Kentucky River Area Development District), Perry County Park, Hazard, Kentucky] December 18, 1986

Untitled [delivered at The Lexington School, Lexington, Kentucky] February 27, 1987

"Politics in Appalachia." [delivered at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky] March 7, 1987

"Religion and Politics in Kentucky Appalachia." [partially edited transcript of lecture delivered to Kentucky Appalachian Ministry, at Richmond, Kentucky] March 1987

"The Roots of Appalachian Culture." [delivered at Center for the Humanities, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia] April 1, 1987

"Challenge of the Global Market to Appalachians." [delivered to Assembly of Appalachian College Presidents, Holiday Inn, Prestonsburg, Kentucky] July 23, 1987

"Kentucky at the Crossroads." [delivered at Letcher County Clean Community Program, Whitesburg, Kentucky] November 12, 1987

"What Have We Done to Our Children?" [delivered at Unitarian Universalist Church, Lexington, Kentucky] March 26, 1988

"John C.C. Mayo." [delivered at Blackey Public Library, Letcher County High School, Whitesburg Public Library, etc.; Caudill was scheduled for five appearances between March 28-April 1, 1988; the series was sponsored by Appalshop.]

"East Kentucky's Challenge in a Global Market." [delivered at the First Commonwealth Bank Employees Recognition Dinner, Jennie Wiley State Park, Prestonsburg, Kentucky] May 19, 1988

"Why Noon May Come to the Cumberlands!!" [delivered to Kentucky Press Association, Summer Convention, Paintsville, Kentucky] June 17, 1988

"How Mountaineers Have Succeeded: Inspiration for a New Generation in a Global Market." [delivered at Southwest Virginia Community College, Richlands, Virginia] December 8, 1988

"Cultural Change and the Future of Eastern Kentucky." [delivered to Prestonsburg Community College graduating class, Jennie Wiley State Park, Prestonsburg, Kentucky] May 5, 1989

Untitled [delivered at Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky, c. mid-June 1989]

"Matewan Massacre and the Mine Wars." [convocation address following the showing of the film Matewan; delivered at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky] January 11, 1990

"The New Appalachia and Its Great Out-Migration of Successful People." [delivered at Berea College Senior Forum, Berea, Kentucky] May 15, 1990

"A Puzzling Aspect of Eastern Kentucky History: What Other Depressed Areas May Learn From Kentucky's Eastern Counties." [delivered at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky] May 15, 1990

"Uncivilized People Cause Most Woes: Splendid Opportunities at Hand." [delivered to the Kentucky Association for Community Action, Hazard, Kentucky] June 21, 1990

"Appalachian Kentucky and Its Great Out-Migration of Highly Successful People." [delivered at Hazard Community College, Hazard, Kentucky] September 4, 1990

Untitled [delivered to the American Medical Association] N.d

Epilogue to Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smokey Mountains by Edward Abbey [manuscript only; published 1970]

Foreword to The Great Appalachian Sperm Bank and Other Writings by Bill Best [manuscript and 1986 published version]

Afterword to reissue of Bloody Ground by John Day [manuscript only; published 1981]

Foreword to The Dreadful Month by Carlton Jackson [manuscript only; published 1982]

Foreword to The Federal Government in Appalachia by James Branscome [1977 published version only]

Foreword to Stinking Creek by John Fetterman [manuscript only; published 1967]

Foreword to Yesterday's People by Jack Weller [manuscript, printer's proofs, and 1965 published version]

All That Is Native and Fine: Politics of Culture in an American Region by David E. Whisnant [manuscript and published version in Louisville Courier-Journal, February 5, 1984]

Appalachia and America: Autonomy and Regional Dependence edited by Allen Batteau [manuscript and published version in Georgia Historical Quarterly, c. 1983]

Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920 by Henry D. Shapiro [manuscript and published version, Journal of American History, December 1979]

The Care of the Earth by Russell Lord [published version in Louisville Courier-Journal, December 2, 1962].

The Children of Crisis (Vols. 2 and 3) by Robert Coles [manuscript and published version in New York Times Book Review, March 9, 1972]

Clean Coal/Dirty Air by Bruce A. Ackerman and William T. Hassler [manuscript, c. 1981; written for Louisville Courier-Journal]

Coal Mining Health and Safety in West Virginia by J. David McAteer [manuscript and published version in Blue-tail Fly, c. December 1970]

Coaltown Revisited: An Appalachian Notebook by Bill Peterson [manuscript and published version in New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1972]

Death and the Mines by Brit Hume [manuscript and published version in New York Times Book Review, December 2, 1971]

Eastern Kentucky: A Pictorial History by Stuart Sprague [published version in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Winter 1987]

Everything in Its Path by Kai T. Erikson [manuscript and published version in The Nation, March 5, 1977]

Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 by Altina Waller [manuscript, c. 1988]

Forth To The Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 by Dale Van Every [published version in Louisville Courier-Journal, July 9, 1961]

The Great Coalfield War by George S. McGovern and Leonard F. Futtridge [manuscript, printer's proofs, and published version in New York Times Book Review, September 21, 1972)

Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields by Members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners [manuscript, printer's proofs, and published version in New York Times Book Review, November 19, 1970]

The Hollow by Bill Surface [manuscript and published version in Boston Herald Traveler Book Guide, March 21, 1971]

John C.C. Mayo: Cumberland Capitalist by Carolyn Clay Turner and Carolyn Hay Traum [manuscript and published version in Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 59, no. 3 (1985)]

The Kentucky Trace by Harriette Simpson Arnow [manuscript, c. 1984]

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Mines, 1880-1920 by David A. Corbin [manuscript, printer's proofs, and published version in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, April 1983]

Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 by Charles Muncy [manuscript, c. 1985; never published]

Men in Crisis: A Study of a Mine Disaster by Rex A. Lucas [manuscript and published version in Washington Post Book World, November 23, 1969]

Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880-1930 by Ronald D. Eller [manuscript and published version in Louisville Courier-Journal, August 21, 1983]

Most Splendid of Men: Life in a Mining Community, 1917-1925 by Harold Brown [manuscript, c. 1981]

A Place of Power by Walt Anderson [manuscript, c. 1976]

Rebel Raider: The Life of John Hunt Morgan by James A. Ramage [published version in Filson Club History Quarterly, October 1987]

Reclaiming the American Dream by Richard Cornuelle [manuscript; written for New York Herald Tribune, Christmas edition, 1965]

Rural Community in the Appalachian South by Patricia Duane Beaver [manuscript and published version in Filson Club History Quarterly, October 1987]

Since Silent Spring by Frank Graham, Jr. [published version in Boston Herald Traveler Book Guide, February 15, 1970]

Terracide: America's Destruction of Her Living Environment by Ron Linton [manuscript and published version in Boston Herald Traveler Book Guide, April 12, 1970]

To the Bright and Shining Sea by James Lee Burke [manuscript only, c. August 7, 1970]

Welcome the Traveler Home: Jim Garland's Story of the Kentucky Mountains edited by Julie S. Ardery [manuscript and published version in Filson Club History Quarterly, 1982]

Who Owns Appalachia?: Land Ownership and Its Impact by the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force [pre-publication version probably written as reader for University Press of Kentucky, c. 1981-82, and post-publication manuscript also written for University Press of Kentucky, c. September 1983]

i Poetry

ii Unidentified Manuscripts

[in alphabetical order]

May 5, 1961-March 28, 1967

February 1, 1968-December 1, 1977

February 22, 1978-August 28, 1990; N.d

i Dark Hills To Westward

David H. Vowell of the Genesis Concern obtained movie rights and wrote a 127-page script: "The Saga of Jennie Wiley." However, the actual production never materialized. This folder contains the script and correspondence concerning the film proposal.

ii Night Comes to the Cumberlands

Over the years, several parties were interested in making this book into a documentary film. David H. Vowell of the Genesis Concern obtained movie rights, but the film was never made. This folder contains correspondence concerning the various proposals.

"The Crusader." [taped on June 27, 1965, this hour long program is a portrait of Caudill screened in England; produced by BBC as part of the "Inside America Series"]

"To Regain a Lost Paradise." [taped on October 11, 1970, this hour long program appeared on the series "Studio One," Voice of America; produced by the U.S. Information Agency]

"Strip Mining." [taped on July 16, 1972 for NBC News at WLEX-TV, Lexington, Ky]

Notes. [for interview on KET's "Kentucky Journal," program taped on February 13, 1981, and broadcast February, 16, 1981]

i General

ii Captains of Industry

iii Company Towns

iv Death in the Mines

v Eastern Kentucky in the Age of the Moguls

vi Harlan County Kentucky

vii Industrialization of the Appalachians

viii Labor Conditions

ix Labor Strife in the Coalfields

x Lynch, Kentucky

xi John C.C. Mayo

xii Ownership and Control

i Appalachian Culture

ii Music, Customs, Superstitions, and Language

iii Religion

i Economic Reform and Development

i Schools and Education

i Coal, Oil, and Gas in Appalachia

i Environmental Problems

ii Forest of the Cumberlands

i Letcher County Families Genealogy

i Health and Welfare

i William Shockley's Genetic Theory

i Autobiography: John Lucas (1880-1965); 1964-1965

ii Autobiography: Monroe Lucas (1878- ? ); c. 1956

iii Feuds and Violence

iv Letcher County and Whitesburg

v Poverty and Backwardness

vi Race Relations

vii War Heroes and Other Distinguished Mountaineers

i Kentucky and National Politics

i Kentucky Frontier

ii Pioneers in Eastern Kentucky

iii Southern Appalachian Mountaineers