When they retired in 1992, they bought a remote farm outside of Blaine in Lawrence County and moved back. Now, instead of noisy traffic, they awake to crowing roosters or the gobbling of wild turkeys on the wooded hillsides around their home. The rural surroundings are so serene that people who work in Ashland and Huntington are choosing to live in outlying areas, making bedroom communities out of smaller towns like Blaine, Balltrip said. He said that may have contributed to an increase in Lawrence County of 1,571 people. We had to scratch and dig for a living.
People are far better off now.
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