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In Memoriam

This was in The Meadows housing estate. A couple of weeks previously, Nathan Williams, aged 17, was shot in the estate's shopping centre. It was broad daylight and witnesses say it was after an argument over a pushbike.
VICE Staff
11.1.06
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Mountain Momma

I'm 21 and I was raised in Louisa, Kentucky. I love it here. It's peaceful. It's quiet. I have two kids, Destiny and Jacob. They're one and two years old. I'm raising them on my own because their dad was unfaithful.
Sunshine Fannin
11.1.06
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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
The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

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
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
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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
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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