"Hands across Pine Mountain"

Twenty new and familiar faces turned out to last night's multi-chapter, Harlan & Letcher County Potluck in Oven Fork.  We shared several homemade and homegrown food dishes together, stories from the past couple months of chapter organizing, and a few fiddle tunes from Letcher County's only performing female fiddle duo, the Skip Dippers.   Harlan Chapter chair, Roy Silver, called the event "hands across Pine Mountain" in his excitement after the evening. 

Folks collectively highlighted stories of great work happening across our chapters and at the Capitol during general assembly over the last couple months.  Three local members renewed their memberships and we all signed a couple 'Thank You' cards.  One went out to Sen. Smith's legislative assistant, Debra, for being so helpful all session, and the other for the Oven Fork Senior Citizen's Center for providing us a great, welcoming space to meet and eat conveniently in-between our various communities.

Spirits were high as folks cleaned up and headed down either side of the mountain and tomorrow morning at 7 a.m., five of those same folks will head out from the Whitesburg Post Office toward Frankfort.  Along the way, picking up members in both Knott and Perry Counties for the Voting Rights Lobby Day & Rally!  Catch a ride with us if you're around here, or meet us there for lobbying at 10 a.m. and the rally at 1:30 p.m.