Owen Wright of the Christian Appalachian Project, one of the non-profits that helps Slone, says that outside perception can hurt the self-esteem of the people who live in Appalachia.

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After being denied admission at three colleges

short stories, poetry, and novels as well as non-fiction autobiographical works

greatest work of poetry to come out of America since Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass.

Stuart served in the US Navy during World War II but did not see combat as his mission in his life.[

Stuart served in the US Navy during World War II but did not see combat as his mission in his life.[5]

They settled in W Hollow and had one daughter, Jessica Jane.[6

Stuart relied heavily on the rural locale of northeastern Kentucky for his writings.[1]

BitSource would like to hire a second class of coders at the beginning of the new year. He, Parrish, and Hall want to fill up their buildings, create an incubator for entrepreneurs, a makerspace for craftsmen, and, someday, if they play their cards incredibly well, a bonafide Pikeville tech scene. You know, make Bloomberg in his smart suit eat crow for once.

Outsiders have never gotten Appalachia — or else, they get the version they want: the one with the meth and Mountain Dew mouth, the incest, the painkillers, the welfare, all captured by journalists parachuting in for their regular dose of poverty porn. They find the toothless guy, the trailers with shotguns racked up on the wall and the yard strewn with diapers and beer cans, and they film some dude saying weird shit in a backcountry accent that needs subtitles to comprehend, they give it an ominous title like “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains,” and they leave. You bet people here have a chip on their shoulder. It’s not that stuff like that doesn’t exist—but if the world always insisted on zooming in on your warts, you’d be resentful, too.