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The Appalachia Issue

Dynamite Guy

This habit of blowing things up started back when I was about 17. My dad was in road construction and always had dynamite and fuses in his basement.
Mikael Rungdahl
11.1.06
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Grub's Up

Of the 4,500 or so people living in Coober Pedy, approximately 600 are Greek which means it's probably the only bit of desert in the world where you can get a killer lamb gyros with tzatziki and a side of three different types of saganaki.
Peter Ikonomopoulos
11.1.06
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Listen To Progan Stone

This is the first instalment of a new music column written by none other than myself, Progan Stone. Every issue I'll be filtering through piles of music to tell you what's hot.
Progan Stone
11.1.06
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Miner's Welfare

George Mills runs the show down at the Clifton Miner’s Welfare Social Club, deep in the heart of The Meadows area.
George Mills
11.1.06
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No Kids On The Block

There are two kids in this district. Two, in a community of this size! When I was a kid in '65 there were loads of children here. There were 175 throughout the village.
René
11.1.06
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The VICE Guide To The Bars Of Coober Pedy

Drinking is the national sport of Coober Pedy. It averages 45 degrees Celsius outside, the sports oval is a dust bath at best (and a mud bath at worst), and if you live here you're either unemployed or you work like a total miner ie. really, really...
VICE Staff
11.1.06
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All Bands Are Shit

Iceland is so expensive that if you're drinking in a bar in Reykjavik and it's your round, you might as well pull one of the kitschy Viking war-axes off the wall and use it to slice out your own kidney.
Louis Pattison
11.1.06
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Stripped Mountain

Before: The little building front and center is one of the few remaining homeplaces in the mountains outside of Mud, West Virginia.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

The Great Flood

In October 2000, there was a flood in Inez, Kentucky. The EPA called it the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of the eastern United States.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
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Man Of The Mountains

The first part of the house out here was made in the 30s. There was two families raised in that house. I had 11 brothers and sisters.
Homer Thompson
11.1.06
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Family Plot

I'm the oldest caretaker of this graveyard. It isn't that big. The first person got put in here a long time ago. Luther Thompson. He's a great-great-uncle of my family. My step-pap was his brother. That's the second grave yonder next to Luther. That...
Homer Thompson
11.1.06
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Literary/I Want My Dvds

Father Ralph Beiting, who as you may well have noticed figures prominently in this issue of Vice, has written about 30,000 books.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
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