Bell Co. native releases 5th book

Bell Co. native releases 5th book

Carol Guthrie Heilman didn’t grow up thinking she’d be a writer. She grew up in a coal camp in Bell County, Kentucky, in the late 1940s and early ’50s, where her father went underground every day and her mother ran the company store with the kind of quiet authority that didn’t require a title. She and her sister had an apple orchard, a creek, and the side of a mountain. No supervision. No schedules. Just be home by supper. Decades later, that ch…