Kenneth LeForce

My whole name is Kenneth Lee LeForce, Jr. I grew up in a little town called Fairview, Kentucky, which is right across the river, on a farm. And due to circumstances that happened a few years ago when I got married, I still had the farm, the property. My wife and I bought a small house that joins the family farm. So I still own that. Mom and dad bought the original seven acres the year I was born.

My dad came up here from Corbin, Kentucky. He said the only things that you could find, the only jobs in Corbin was bootlegging or mining. And my dad's a pretty good-sized man. He said he was too big to go in a mine, and he didn't have enough nerves to bootleg. He went in the military. Was military police in Okinawa. When he came back out of the army, my mom and her sisters had moved to Covington. My Dad and my mom met on a blind date. And it got out of hand from there.

My father said that there was so many people in the mountains and Corbin and Hazard and all down in there. He said if you had a bad car or one tank of gas, you made it to Cincinnati. If you had a good car and two tanks of gas, you made it all the way to Detroit to work in the automotive plants.