Bugles hushed 5.000 persons assembled in the hills near Ashland, Ky. last Sunday afternoon. Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon bade them all a deep, drawling welcome. His wife uncovered a bronze tablet. And a rude little log cabin was officially christened "Traipsin" Woman."
The name was for the cabin's owner. Jean Thomas, a small, sprightly blonde who was there dressed in a billowy Elizabethan costume. Mountaineers called her ''the traipsin' woman" because as a court reporter she followed the Law from one hilly settlement to another. Eventually her chief interest became folksongs and ballads,...
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