HERE ARE A FEW VIEWS OF SUNSHINE A SUBURB OF HARLAN AND old coal camp..
HOME TO SOME OF US
         
                                     This is the old Taylor home                                   Next door is where I lived
                     The old Richmond home is reclaimed by                                    But it dident look like this
                               nature in the wood's on the left

  This is the same house as the one on the right above that my family lived in, the only one of the old neighborhood still standing and the strange thing is that after this house was sided I had my present house sided with this very same sideing and shutters and I had not known about this house being reborn.... thats spookey... SEE THAT HERE   

           

                            The Richmond house about 1990                           Ten years later the Richmond home is reclaimed
             Carl's  grandson Christopher Allen Swain                  by mother nature. Hard to see but it's in there
                                              
               
                


This is the TAYLOR family and the little boy is Paul Richmond.  The other boy is adopted son Harold Redmond
The older son William "Gus" Taylor is not in this photo he must be behind the camera, picture is
from late 1949 0r 50
The house in the background is the Marshall home with Mrs Marshall
on the porch, the same house today is shown below

    
                                           1990                                                       and how it looked in  2000

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                                           2002                                                                                       2003
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               And in  2004 it's a pile of ashes
     and thats called takeing care of your property in coal country

   Some of the houses in the old coal camp area of Harlan known as "Sunshine" are on the verge of collapse as most already have. I remember very well the folks that lived in the house above, the Marshals, later on the Shepherds   and even later my brother Buddy Estes and his family,these old coal camp houses have seen their better days but have a marvelous history to tell of families sheltered and children raised. I think everyone would agree they deserved better for they are a museum of life in its self..


                                   

        
 Above was the old tinker house in 2002 it was across the road from our house

The road in front of our houses looks very different today

                                          Tho it looks very different today this is the road in front of our
                                                        house which is the house on the right ,,the Taylor house is next
                                                       door and the old Richmond home is in the clump of trees at the
                                                        end busily being reclaimed by nature. Not much left of the old neighborhood

                                                               THIS IS THE HOUSE BELOW THE  RICHMOND'S ON THE CORNER 
                                                                  ACROSS FROM THE ARMORY BLDG . It was built for my aunt by my grandfather Hiram.in the fourties

                                            Heres the view from Perkins Hill  on the right is Sunshine Babtist Church
 
 


Armory Bldg where everything that happened in Sunshine happened

                                                                           THE OLD ARMORY
                            The old armory building is now  The Harlan County comunity action agency and the Sunshine
                                                                      volunteer fire dept is in the bottom.
 
 

                                   HOMER RICHMOND'S FAMILY MOVED TO THE MAIN STREET OF
                                  SUNSHINE ON THE RIGHT OF THIS STREET.  THE SUNSHINE
                                  VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IS ON THE LEFT.

The old rock store

                                                                            THE OLD ROCK STORE

                                           THE OTHER END OF SUNSHINE THIS IS THE WAY I KNEW  THE BOUNDRY
                                                          BUT SUNSHINE GO'S ALL THE WAY TO DRESSEN
 
 

                                            HERE'S A LOOK AT A PART OF TOWN WE ALL REMEMBER
                                                                                THO IN BETTER TIMES

           THIS IS THE BLOCK WHERE ACKLEY'S CAFE  FULLERS furniture the police station and courthouse ONCE  WAS, THE WHOLE BLOCK
                                BURNED  NOT TOO VERY LONG AFTER THE POLICE STATION, COURTHOUSE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT
                                      ON THE CORNER BURNED DOWN AND KILLED A FIREMAN NAMED TRAP ANDERSON SEEMS
                                  WHEN A FIRE STARTS IN HARLAN JUST GET OUT OF THE WAY,  THE BUILDINGS ARE OLD AND
                              VERY FLAMABLE. THE OLD POLICE STATION WAS AT THE END OF THIS BLOCK on the left corner
                                AND BY THE WAY THE FIRE DEPT. WAS JUST AROUND THAT CORNER  WHEN THIS FIRE STARTED.
                             AT The END OF THE STREET WHERE  THE  PARKING LOT IS  WAS THE HOME OF  "AUNT CAM  HUFF"
                              KENNETH H. COMBS GRAND MOTHER WHO  HE LIVED WITH.  HE WAS KILLED WHEN THE
                               FIRE TRUCK TURNED OVER ON HIM ON THE WAY BACK FROM A RUN IN OCT 1950, IT WAS DRIVEN BY
                                                 TRAP ANDERSON THE FIREMAN KILLED IN THE COURTHOUSE FIRE                                                              

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