Princewick – Dare to Discover

The Farm

November 5, 2025April 18, 2012 by Alan Farley

“The Farm” was in Raleigh County, near a small mining town called Princewick. My Hale grandparents lived there and raised most of their children in the rather large house with white siding and a large screened front porch. From my earliest memories, the Farm was a magic place. Of course, by then we lived in … Read more

Henry Orville Hale

November 5, 2025April 17, 2012 by Alan Farley

“Granddad Hale” – 1883-1966 Henry Hale, my mother’s father, was born in Greenup County, KY in 1883, and died in 1966. Like Nanny Hale, he was a product of the Appalachian mountain culture: a tough person for tough times. He was a coal miner and farmer who, until his late sixties, never knew anything other … Read more