Jerry and Becky Sebastian, Bill and Barb Herald, and Judy Turner
Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson
Jerry and Becky Sebastian, Bill and Barb Herald, and Judy Turner all have close ties to the hills and hollers along the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River around the Breathitt County community of Turner's Creek. All live in Northern Kentucky now and expect to spend the rest of their lives there.
"I always told Dad, I said, I can't understand why you would want to live here, and just exist from one season to the next, growing enough corn to fatten the hogs, keeping the cattle going, the chickens. I couldn't understand why anyone would want to live like that. His idea was, I'd rather be in jail here than to be free working someplace up north." --Bill Herald
“About fifteen years ago Bill decided that we were going to move to Bowling Green, Kentucky. General Motors was opening a plant down there. And all of a sudden I realized, this is home. This is where my friends are. And I had put roots down in spite of myself. But I don't feel a kinship to Northern Kentucky. I guess I still don't have a kinship with anyplace but Harlan County, and that would be the last place in the world I'd ever want to live." --Barb Herald
"I will always need to go back and touch ties with those generations that have gone on before. I've had six or seven generations in one spot. And that's something I want my son to know, and my granddaughter to know. This is where your heritage is. This is your roots. Being part of something." --Becky Sebastian
Perceptions of Home: The Urban Appalachian Spirit ©1996 The Urban Appalachian Council (now Urban Appalachian Community Coalition)
Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson; Interviews ©1996 Don Corathers
Photographs digitized by the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. Genealogy & Local History Department.