When he was 18, Leonard Lawson worked on a highway project — his first of many — as an entry-level maintenance worker. It was good, honest work for a boy hailing from Beverly, Kentucky, a hamlet located near the Commonwealth’s poverty-stricken Eastern coal fields; perched on the southwestern cusp of the Cumberland Plateau just east [...]
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