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November 1, 1961: Gibby is in the hayloft of the barn looking at the pages he tore out of the Sears and Roebuck catalogue. This morning when he was looking at the Christmas toys and making a wish list, Eli showed him the pages of women wearing brassieres and panties. If you wet your finger and [...] Who woulda guessed? This is from Brian Cook at Book Publishing News. I wish I knew the original source. “Books based on life in small town southern Appalachia sell like hotcakes!” stated one publicist. According to book sales data, from 1998-present, America can’t get enough stories about small town life in Southern Appalachia. Over twenty-five million books [...] I have tried many times before to write about my grandfather’s youngest brother, Bill, but I can never get it quite right—how his mouth turns into that half grin before he curls his lips to one side and squirts tobacco juice onto the ground, how he has that same slow way of speaking, that thick [...] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVNgwMGEObE&feature=player_embedded] This series of videos taken in Colorado tells me it’s not just coal, either. In Northern Appalachia now (where I grew up) there has been a boom–maybe even a mega-boom–in natural gas drilling of the Marcellus Shale area, and particularly in my two home counties, Bradford and Tioga in Pennsylvania. From what I understand, most [...] Self-explanatory. by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Originally delivered on behalf of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, at 21c Museum. Louisville, Kentucky. December 06, 2009. The people of Eastern Kentucky – West Virginia, East Tennessee – have been treated as the ‘Other America’ for more than a century. From Lil Abner to Shelby Lee Adams—from Charles Kuralt to Diane Sawyer— [...] (Photo: U.S. National Archives, 1974) All that coal comes with baggage and outrage and few enough people seem to even know about it, let alone get their backs up about it. Environmental groups to sue Massey Energy for ignoring thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act and surface mining laws. A coalition of environmental groups has [...] Arnold walked up the newly-plowed dirt road, feeling the brittle cold on his face, looking ahead at the crossing framed by high, clean snow banks. He knew that a week was probably not long enough to stay away, but he was tired of waiting for the bus by himself. His aunt would just have to [...] Did you know this fella, probably the best left-hander I ever saw pitch, inspired fans because he was ‘white trash?’ Go damn figure. Mike Seely says, give a guy a mullet, and he’s trashy. OOOOOOkaay. With Randy Johnson’s retirement yesterday and Edgar Martinez’s coming up well short in today’s Hall-of-Fame balloting, it appears that it will be [...] #gallery-1 { OK, so this isn’t the first thing I think of after finishing this story, but name a minority or other ethnic group (do rednecks qualify? another question, projably) where a substitution–make your own– for the appropriate word in that [...] I changed this blog over to WordPress, which is easier to use, I think. Some of the old posts got AFU’d, but I’m fixing them slowly. So what do you think? In the future I could use photos for this space too. Think it over. |
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