Most all towns, little and large, have heroes. The thing about that is that maybe that hero is not known in the next block down or the heroic act he or she performed is lost after a few years have passed.

And yet those heroes are still always in our midst.

And, once in a while, there are heroes that are so outstanding and so filled with tenacity and grit, that most everyone knows that they are heroes.

Three ladies from Big Sandy fit that bill perfectly. Not only have Marla Ray, Dee Pribyl and Ann Quinn changed the ways of libraries for Big Sandy forever but they have almost singlehandedly chan...