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In 2019, the novel The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson, described a fictional version of the Fugate family during the Great Depression.. In 2021, the novel Blue-Skinned Gods by S. J. Sindu references a family from Kentucky with methemoglobinemia but does not use the surname Fugate.
She is friendly with Angeline Moffit, a pregnant 16-year old hill resident, and Queenie, a fellow librarian and one of only a handful of Black people living in the Troublesome Creek area. Elijah "Pa" Carter: Cussy Mary's father. His blue skin is largely hidden by the coal dust his is covered with from working in the mines.
James Still's book On Troublesome Creek is a collection of short stories. [89] The "Blue Fugates", nickamed the "Blue People of Troublesome Creek" by Cathy Trost in 1982, a family so-called because some of them had blue skin from inheriting methemoglobinemia, lived in the area in the 19th and 20th centuries. [90] [91]
Troublesome Creek, and the streams that feed into it, saw nearly half of the total victims of historic flooding across Eastern Ky. Many were left to wonder why this creek, of all the Appalachian ...
The current Ary post office at the mouth of Balls Fork is actually on Troublesome Creek itself, [24] as was the original site of the earlier Troublesome post office that served Balls Fork from 1882. [25] Balls Fork had six post offices in its history actually on the fork itself or its tributaries. [2]
High water damaged several buildings at Homeplace Community Center, which overlooks Troublesome Creek in Perry County, including the gym, the community building, the caretaker’s home, a former ...
The Forks of Troublesome, more simply The Forks, are the Left Fork and Right Fork tributaries of Troublesome Creek in what is now Knott County, Kentucky. [2] [3] This was the name of the place where they met until the city of Hindman was established as the county seat in April 1884, [2] and the name used in the Act of the Kentucky General Assembly that established Knott County. [4]
Ruth Ann Baxter was volunteering in the Troublesome Creek area a few weeks ago helping to salvage keepsakes from the mud-filled home of a woman who died in the Eastern Kentucky floods when she ...