Maxine Cheshire, Post reporter and columnist with 'the guts of a cat burglar,' dies at 90

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Maxine Cheshire, Post reporter and columnist with ‘the guts of a cat burglar,’ dies at 90
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/maxine-cheshire-post-reporter-and-columnist-with-the-guts-of-a-cat-burglar-dies-at-90/2021/01/28/05810dae-6179-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html

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Maxine Cheshire applied for her first reporting job in her hometown of Harlan, Ky.

“I know everything that goes on in this town,” Ms. Cheshire told the editor during her interview, “and if you give me a job so will you.”

Her father was a lawyer in the tough coal-mining town in eastern Kentucky and represented the mineworkers union. Because of repeated assassination attempts, he wore a bulletproof vest to work every day. Her mother kept a gun in the house and had to use it on more than one occasion.

Ms. Cheshire knew a lot about Harlan, but she didn’t get the job. Of course, she was only 5 at the time.

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1. Wasn't Harlan, Ky. the town "Justified" was portrayed in the tv series? Raylan was a "Harlan boy."

Raylan is also a Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper's cousin. I loved that show.

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2. Didn't mean to wander off the reason for my post, RIP dear lady..n/t

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4. Yes...but as good as that was (and I really liked it)...

here's some REAL Harlan people:

(on edit: a reporter goes to cover a union election...ends up in the middle of a strike)

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3. Cheshire Cat

Now really.