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The Appalachia Issue

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
The Appalachia Issue

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
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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
The Appalachia Issue

Vice Fashion - Nottingham Kids

Photos by Alex Sturrock
Alex Sturrock
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

After The Mines

I started working in the mines in about '69 or '70, when I was 17 years old. I just worked part-time during the summer.
Rudy Hammonds
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Killing Students

I first saw Friendly Fires live a few years ago at The Dublin Castle in Camden when the band were still at university and went under the awful name First Day Back.
John McDonnell
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Load Sixteen Tons And What Do You Get?

I had 22 years in the coal mines, all underground. I started down there when I was about 22. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world when I was young.
Charles Tipton
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Gary The Landlord

The Marquis is a meeting point for The Radford Boys, which is a collection of men born and bred in the area.
Gary Pearson
11.1.06
The Appalachia Issue

Drug Dealing

We met up with this guy on Sunday afternoon in Radford. All the time we were talking to him, his wife was beeping the horn on his car really urgently and stressing out like she wanted him to leave really quickly. Then we looked down at his leg.
Alex Sturrock
11.1.06
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