Maxine Cheshire, Post reporter and columnist with ‘the guts of a cat burglar,’ dies at 90
Matt Schudel
Maxine Cheshire applied for her first reporting job in her hometown of Harlan, Ky.
“I know everything that goes on in this town,” Ms. Cheshire told the editor during her interview, “and if you give me a job so will you.”
Her father was a lawyer in the tough coal-mining town in eastern Kentucky and represented the mineworkers union. Because of repeated assassination attempts, he wore a bulletproof vest to work every day. Her mother kept a gun in the house and had to use it on more than one occasion.