If you’re poor in the hills of Appalachia and don’t have the skills to succeed in the 21st Century, what path is left? You do whatever it takes to survive. Survival, not always easy in hill country, is the common theme of these three stories from West Virginia. WICKED WOMEN: When a man wrongs a […]
When I ran the kitchen at the Pavilion Hotel, Rob Johnson delivered fresh vegetables and milk from his family’s farm. His ornery pa usually collected the payment, which I knew went straight to drink. Mrs. Johnson had been a good, God-fearing woman, but after she died the old man drank even more. The older son […]
