Before the sun even started to rise over the mountains in our beautiful piece of Almost Heaven on the first day of December, I was already listening to Rosemary Clooney,
Rosemary Clooner's been working more than half a century, starting in 1945 when she was 16 and she and her 13-year-old sister, Betty, were paid $20 to sing.
“The Girl Singer,” by Marianne Worthington, was published by the University Press of Kentucky and won in the poetry category. "The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Lives in Appalachian Coal Towns" (WVU Press), authored by UK Alumnus William H. Turner, won in the nonfiction category.