Internet archives has Hillbilly Elegy
to download or borrow the ebook.they also have the audiobook
if the copyright cops remove them, you might want to listen to the machine read version on youtube:
they also have the classic history of the area. Night comes to the Cumberlands. That book inspired JFK and others to try to improve the economic condition of the area.
Although I lived for a couple years in the coal mining area of Pennsylvania, our miners were mainly from Eastern Europe so it was a different culture in our town. But the culture of poverty and how people have to migrate to work and how lack of opportunity leads to despair is found in many poor rural area.
my son and my cousin did volunteer work in Kentucky repairing homes.
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