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LET THERE BE LIGHT

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"Start with people - it's a people program."

J. K. Smith
Founder and First President
Kentucky Assoc. of Electric Coops

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"And there was the woman reading her Bible when her children threw the switch for the first time-she thought the Lord had spoken, thought he had boomed, 'Let there be light!'"

Jess Wilson, Possum Trot Road
Jackson Energy Cooperative

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" ...on certain nights of the week the neighbors would arrive to listen to 'The Lone Ranger' and other shows on the radio. Daddy had a generator in the smokehouse and had wired the house so we could have this occasional luxury. Then one day big trucks came and unloaded huge, tall poles that could touch the sky."

Polly Smith Spillman
Owl Springs, Kentucky
Farmers RECC

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"Nobody had running water. Washing clothes? If it hadn't rained, I'd take a lard can and a little red wagon to the sawmill pond."

Billy Cain, Little Brush Creek
Cumberland Valley Electric

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"...the switch was pulled to light the house and the family continuously left the light on for fear that if they turned the switch off, power might never come back on. Family life as it was known before electricity ... would never be the same."

Evelyn Boone, Todd County, Kentucky
Pennyrile Electric

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"History is of little value unless we learn from it. And what better way to learn than to document, practice what we learn, and put what we learn to good use."

Ron Sheets, President
Kentucky Association of Electric Coops


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Let There Be Light

Let There Be Light is the story of the humble beginnings, the early struggles, and the ultimate triumph of the electric cooperative idea in Kentucky. Much of the story is told by the individuals who lived it-men and women who recall the years of work to create the electric companies, and today's cooperative leaders who carry on a tradition that has changed the . . .

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