![]() Folks from Kentucky came to the little community to buy their liquor, to do a little shopping, to socialize. Jack Goff, married to Ida and Oliver's daughter Jean, ran a shoe shop downtown, near the Pound Hardware. Nearly every able man worked in the mines or mine-related businesses. Ringed by the closely buckled, tree-laden Appalachians, The Pound was a small, close community, isolated and quiet. "The Pound" - as those who live there call it - tucks itself into a natural corral, or pound, where the North Fork of the Pound River forms a nearly closed horseshoe bend. Ida Powers' hometown was close to the Kentucky line. ![]() She thought about her only son, Francis, now living overseas with his new wife. Ida thought about her five daughters, about her grandchildren, about her husband, Oliver, no longer working the coal mines but at work in his shoe shop in nearby Norton. Severe asthma was keeping her from working in the garden these days. Ida Powers wiped her hands on her cotton apron and looked out, past the barn and Mill Branch, looked up to the hillsides, lush with new leaves in shades of olive and lime and emerald. reconnaissance over Soviet Russia at the height of the Cold War. Little did young Francis know that he would indeed take his heart back to the skies, and - some 17 years later - become renowned the world over as the flying spy in the "U2 Incident" involving U.S. ![]() As a lad of 13, Gary Powers explored the mountains around Pound, Va
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