Yup
hereI think MOST towns have a wikipedia page, because even less noteworthy towns near mine have wikipedia pages.
It's interesting that the article for mine has a picture of the Engineer Street bridge, because they just recently redid that whole thing. It was just this old decrepit bridge that wasn't used for anything and now they've turned it into a decorated walkway...which is actually pretty useless because there aren't many pedestrians here.
# Colonel Harlan Sanders, entrepreneur and founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain
# Arthur Lake, actor who played Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie movies
I didn't know there were Blondie movies. That's more interesting than the fact that he's from Corbin.
Each year in early August, Corbin hosts a festival called NIBROC (Corbin spelled backwards) featuring open-air concerts, carnival attractions, a beauty pageant, parade, and other events. The festival is featured, if anachronistically, in the play Last Train to Nibroc [1] by Arlene Hutton. (Though the play is set in the 1940s, the festival itself only dates to 1952.)
Nibroc is usually pretty lame, but I went all the time as a child to ride the rides. I went last year too because Jefferson Starship came to perform, it was p. great.
Also this article linked to a story about the awful racial issues in Corbin. This happened sometime around (maybe after?) World War I
"They swore at us and said: 'By God we are going to run all Negroes out of this town tonight,'" said longtime black resident John Turner in a signed affidavit a few months after the incident. He and his wife were taken to the depot at gunpoint and forced to leave.
No wonder we only have like two black families STILL.
Slone now works in a cabinet factory in Corbin. He says he's received some cold looks in town, but for the most part, Corbin has not lived up to its old reputation as a place that's inhospitable to black people.
FOR THE MOST PART it's not lived up to that reputation. As in, we don't force blacks out at gunpoint anymore, we just give them awful looks.