A celebrated Kentucky novelist remembers growing up in Burnside, a Kentucky town now almost obliterated by the waters of Lake Cumberland. In the early years of this century, Burnside, Kentucky, was a bustling community perched on and above the floodplain formed by the Cumberland River and the South Fork. It was a center for shipping by rail and steamboat packet, and its lumber mills sent their products all over the world. The lower part of the town-once the heart of its economic being-now lies b
A celebrated Kentucky novelist remembers growing up in Burnside, a Kentucky town now almost obliterated by the waters of Lake Cumberland. In the early years of this century, Burnside, Kentucky, was a bustling community perched on and above the floodplain formed by the Cumberland River and the South Fork. It was a center for shipping by rail and steamboat packet, and its lumber mills sent their products all over the world. The lower part of the town-once the heart of its economic being-now lies b
