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Posted: Sat 14:38, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: omitting the urban side |
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Frontier Nursing Service, which once sent nurses on horseback into the hollows. We spent an evening at the legendary Highlander Research and Education Center, which played a key role in advancing the southern labor and Civil Rights movements. The itinerary was packed, the pace fast. On the bus in between some stops we watched two educational films on the bus about the region and listened to a radio program. We couldn't visit the site, but an 85-year old man told us about living next to a mountaintop removal coal mining operation. We had a close look at a vast organic farm. We talked to the people we met in these places and took home-cooked meals--of memorable proportions- with some of them. Much of what we saw and heard raised sensitive issues about Appalachia--cultural, racial, economic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], historical--and back on the bus Berry led discussions of them over the dull roar of the highway. We talked again at Highlander and after the trip. The tour had its drawbacks: It stopped in no big cities, omitting the urban side
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