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Eula Hall (born October 29, 1927) is a prominent Appalachian activist and healthcare pioneer who founded the Mud Creek Clinic in Grethel in Floyd County, Kentucky. ==Biography== A self-described "hillbilly activist", Eula was born the second of seven surviving children of Lee D. and Nanny Elizabeth Riley, tenant farmers living in Joe Boner Hollow near Greasy Creek, Kentucky. At the age of nine she attended Greasy Creek Elementary School in Pike County and graduated from the eighth grade in five years.〔NOTE: Greasy Creek Elementary was (creek closed after the 2000-01 school year ).〕 The local high school, over 20 miles away, was too far away for her to continue her education. She briefly worked in a World War II canning factory in Ontario, New York, at the age of fifteen, but was sent back to Kentucky on charges of 'inciting a labor riot' concerned with poor working conditions. Upon returning to the mountains, she moved to Floyd County where she worked as a domestic servant for wealthy families who were boarding mine, oil and drilling workers. It was there she met her first husband, McKinley, a coal miner. They married when she was seventeen and together had five children. All were born at home: one was born premature and deaf, and another died in infancy. She rose to prominence as an activist as a member of the local 979 community group and the East Kentucky Worker's Rights Organization. She created the Mud Creek Water District and served as president of the Kentucky Black Lung Association. During President Johnson's War on Poverty she joined the VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program and later became one of two local Appalachian Volunteers working in the area. In response to the failed War on Poverty health program in Floyd County, in 1973, she established the Mud Creek Clinic in Grethel, Kentucky.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Big Sandy Health Care, Inc. )〕 In 1977, she divorced her first husband and the next year married Oliver Hall, a retired miner. A biography of Eula Hall, entitled ''Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia'', was written by Kiran Bhatraju and published by Butler Books on November 15, 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia: Kiran Bhatraju: 9781935497738: Amazon.com: Books )〕〔butlerbooks.com/mudcreekmedicine〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eula Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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