MANSFIELD – Willie Davis, Mansfield resident and author of a two-volume historical fiction novel documenting the history of Olive Hill, Ky., was invited to the city recently as a guest speaker at two venues. Davis spoke to Olive Hill high school students, and also at an inaugural community forum about how this small Kentucky town […]
Willie Davis, Special to Richland Source
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Olive Hill: A local historical novel reveals little-known past
MANSFIELD — Author Willie Davis has written a historical fiction novel on how one small Appalachian Kentucky town can lay claim to helping build the United States. “Olive Hill, Kentucky has a surprising creation story,” says author Willie Davis. “Hundreds of thousands of Kentucky’s sons and daughters migrated to the industrial north in the 1940’s and ’50s […]