U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy watched students shoot basketball at the Spruce Pine Elementary School in Honaker, Floyd County, as part of his nationwide survey of hunger in America, on Nov. 23, 1983. Kennedy, a seven-term Democratic senator form Massachusetts, visited Floyd and Letcher counties. Kennedy was the fourth-longest-serving senator in U.S. history when he died in 2009. Photo by Charles Bertram | Herald-Leader staff