In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.
Teresa Redmon, 4, sucks her fingers as she is blanketed by darkness in the trailer.Family portrait of the Jack Miller family reunion.Jeanine Flanagan spends a quiet moment in thought as her brother swings from the limbs of a willow tree at the Jack Miller family reunion in Jamestown, KY.Jeanine Flanagan swings from the limbs of a willow tree at the Jack Miller family reunion in Jamestown, KY.Marine Wooden plays with the elementary school children as they taunt her on their way home from school.In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.
Melissa Maynard and her nephew, James Redmon, play house in the junk pile behind their trailer. A rusted hand mixer is used for their make-believe television remote.Ruth Ford waits for a ride as she sits in front of her apartment building in Jamestown, Ky. The aluminum cans she saves give her a little extra cash.Earnest Brown, left, and Michael Brown take a break in the First United Methodist cemetery as they mow the grave sites. The two cousins mow “here and there” for spending money.Sunrise near the outskirts of Jamestown, Ky.In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.
Shirley Maynard prepares to water the animals. She travels to her sister’s house where she carts water in plastic jugs.Larine Wooden, Russell Springs, Ky.In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.
Teresa Redmon drinks breakfast coffee as her grandmother Shirley Maynard, holds her. Maynard raises her daughter’s three children and her own assortment of children, teen-agers and adults in a two bedroom trailer. She receives $697/month for the eight person, three dog, two cat household.In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.
Maynard realizes the importance of education to “get ahead”. She reads to her grandchildren, Teresa and Lisa and daughter, Melissa, as they listen to the television.In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.
As Shirley Maynard sleeps, her daughter, Melissa, plays with a charity doll.In a two-bedroom trailer perched high above Greasy Creek lives the Maynard family. For Shirley Maynard, making ends meet for her eight-member household is not easy.
Shirley Maynard warms herself by the gas stove in her home in Jamestown, Ky.Jack Miller, a district judge from Jamestown, Ky., poses in front of the courthouse that overlooks Jamestown square.
