Henry County Radical: Howard Kester and the Fight For A New South
Bassett Historical Center 3964 Fairystone Park Hwy, Bassett, VA, United StatesThis program centers on Howard Kester who was born and raised near Martinsville in the early twentieth century and later moved with his family to Beckley, West Virginia as a teenager. Those early years in and around Henry County, followed by his experiences in West Virginia coal country, were formative. Seeing firsthand the exploitation of […]

