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The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

Vice Pictures

Photos by Martin Runeborg.
Martin Runeborg
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Steve & Donny

The Farley brothers live out in this trailer with their mother.
Jerry Hsu
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Twenty-six Feet Under

People who live in Coober Pedy make city kids look like pampered assholes. Life in the outback is often harsher than a straight-up hash pipe, and death is something that you tend to become pretty familiar with.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Policing The Wilderness

There are two and a half of us working in this area. Two and a half cops in an area the size of Holland and Belgium together.
Martin Lestander
11.1.06
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In his State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "war on poverty."
VICE Staff
11.1.06
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