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The Appalachia Issue

Coal Every Day
Steve Brierly is a coal merchant with a business on Ilkeston Road. We met him outside the chip shop when he was knocking off for the day. The next day we went back to his yard and talked about how the whole industry was screwed.
Steve Brierly
11.1.06
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Small Towns
This issue was going to be called the Poor Issue. We looked at the numbers and found there were a lot of poor people in the north.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
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Air Combat
I'm still in school. I'm 18 years old. I don't know what I want to do when I'm older.
Erik Sundström
11.1.06
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Royal Poverty
Metal has always been small town poverty's own soundtrack. Still, Monarch aren't your usual acne-scarred, faux Satanists from the sweaty, hairy armpits of Northern Europe.
Tony Wilson
11.1.06
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Town Clown
There's no way you can miss Irvin's place. His property sits at the top of a hill where he has somehow managed to acquire more random, insane shit than you have ever seen in one spot. Ever.
Irvin Wench
11.1.06
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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