There’s a new innovation lab in Hampton that’s targeting a big issue-the number of people living in poverty. Data shows that more than half of the seven cities are well above the state poverty level.
Happy 89th birthday, Loretta Lynn! The country legend was born on this day, April 14, in 1932.
Lynn was born to Theodore Webb, a coal miner, and his wife, Clara Ramey. The second of eight children including younger sister Brenda Gail, known as singer Crystal Gayle she grew up in Butcher Holler, a small mining community in the town of Van Lear, Ky.
Lynn was only 15 years old when she married Oliver Lynn, known as Doolittle, Doo or Mooney. The couple relocated to Washington state so that he could find steady employment without working in the mines. By the time Lynn was 20 years old, she was the mother of four children.
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