Stories That Should Never Go Away

This story, "Pfc. Gibson Comes Home," known also as just "Little Duck," ran in the Courier-Journal & Times Sunday Magazine in Louisville, Ky., on July 28, 1968. It won the Pulitzer for local reporting. John Fetterman, born in Danville, Ky., started as a copy editor at the Nashville Tennessean before moving to Louisville. He wrote a book, published in 1967, called Stinking Creek. From the prologue: "This, then, is the story of a few hillbillies who lived at a particular time in history along a creek called Stinking in a particular hollow almost lost among the thousands of hollows of Appalachia. This is a part of what might have been seen and heard and learned by anyone willing to walk many…