For decades Eula Hall has inspired her Grethel community with the idea that everyone has health rights.  She educates others to become social activists, focusing on environmental and economic issues that affect community health.

  Hall was born on Greasy Creek in Pike County in a sharecropper family that grew corn and sold eggs to buy flour and beans.  She watched people have a terrible time getting any kind of preventive health care, and she never forgot those days.  “All my life I thought this was ridiculous that good people have to suffer for the lack of money.”

  She founded the Mud Creek Clinic in 1973, housed in her own home while she moved into a trailer next door.  But a brand new Clinic opened in 1982, and she’s been the social director ever since.  In her daily job she might find a coat for a child or help someone get food stamps or find money for someone else to turn on their heat.

  Eula Hall believes that if strip mine operators can move mountains, then so can people.  She knows that sometimes people cannot wait long enough for legislation, so once she helped organize women to block the road at the Brookside mine strike.  She’s a legend in the mountains and Kentucky women are lucky to have Eula Hall on their side.

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