I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, …
What’s Freedom Mean to You?
January 19, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. What does this picture make you think of? Mr. Brown, my social studies teacher at school, told us to look at this picture and write a paper on what freedom means to us. Not to the country or to somebody else, but to each of us as individuals. Mr. Brown …
Hollyhill has a New Book
October 1, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Somebody has written a book about us here in Hollyhill! Again! Last year there was that book about all the things I found out in the summer, Scent of Lilacs. Now I’m finding out lots of new things in this story, Orchard of Hope. And some of it happens right …