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The Appalachia Issue

Clean Mountain Air
I'm a recovering addict. I was a junkie. My drug of choice was cocaine, crack... Whatever I could shoot up, basically.
Sherry Cook
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

LBJ Day
This memoir of Lyndon B. Johnson's visit to Kentucky was handwritten by Inez, Kentucky native Shelba Pack Brown on April 24, 1964. We maintained the spelling and grammar just as it was because we like the way it sounds. That's all. It's not to be funny.
Shelba Pack Brown
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Welcome To Notts
"Don't let the bastards grind you down" was one of the key quotes from the 1960 Albert Finney movie Saturday Night & Sunday Morning.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Radford Boys
I'm a Radford boy. I was born here in Sinnon Street, Radford, at home. There were no hospital births in those days.
Radford Rob
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Paper Boy Blues
I started to get into pop music in the early 80s and, to me, Rumble Strips sound like all my favourite groups from that time of industrial disputes, yuppies and riots.
Anthony Cooper
11.1.06
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Family Tradition
Martin County, Kentucky is dry. That means unless you can make moonshine, you ain't getting drunk. If you want to crank it up, you need to head over the bridge into Fort Gay (yeah, yeah), West Virginia. That's where the Wildcat bar is.
Jerry Hsu, Patrick O'Dell
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

The Lone DJ
Beyond the odd jukebox, it's not easy to get a music fix in Coober Pedy. We spent our first few days looking for a local band to interview, or maybe a record store of some sort, and found absolutely nada.
Kevin Wood
11.1.06
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Get The Hell Out
My whole family worked in the mine. My dad, my step dad, and my mum. My grandfather still works there. He's taking care of closing the mine. I'm 23 now, but when I was about 15 I was a cleaner in the mine. It felt safe since my whole family was there.
Anna Nässlander
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

The Coober Pedy Issue
For this issue of VICE we spent a week living in the amazing contradiction of an outback town that is Coober Pedy.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Ten Years' Bad Luck
I lived in Columbus most of my life, though I was born down here in Kentucky. I moved back up here four years ago to help my dad. He lives next door. He's getting a little older-you know how that gets.
Roger Maynard
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

To Live & Die
We went up to the St Ann's area of Nottingham late on Saturday night to talk to a family who live in a council house on a notorious road called Kingsthorpe Close. While we were driving there, the white taxi driver told us that he hoped we were wearing...
VICE Staff
11.1.06
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Vice Fashion - Nottingham Kids
Photos by Alex Sturrock
Alex Sturrock
11.1.06
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