Word: appalachia
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...appeal of the dishes transcends class and geographic boundaries. Dealers report brisk sales from Beverly Hills to Beverly, Mass. About 70% of them, though, are still found in rural communities, which often have bad television reception. In Appalachia, where for years hill folk put up towering antennas on top of houses or neighboring ridges, families are now buying basic $1,000 earth stations...
That exclamatory request, over the signature of an official of Salem College, a tiny liberal arts institution in the vertical world of Appalachia, was dispatched last February to the Soviet embassy in Washington. The letter, written at the direction of Ronald E. Ohl, president of the college, pointed out that Soviet-American relations "are not getting better" and asked that the embassy send some representatives to West Virginia to talk face to face...
Instead of using the money to make pre-college students as well as unemployed youths put in some time for Uncle Sam, the government should elevate it exclusively to remedying youth unemployment. Getting disadvantaged youths working for a year is a more urgent priority than funding a year in Appalachia for same future doctor or lawyer. Though philosophically sound, the national service idea should not be allowed to abscure a basic economic need...
...angels. What is being struck on the stage of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater is the rarely heard chord of all-embracing humanity. This play quivers with laughter and stabs the heart. It speaks for things too long mute: love of the land (in this case, Southern Appalachia), the inviolability of the family, the rigorous ethic of hard work and the rebuke and solace of an omnipresent God. To think of that as a didactic, neo-conservative agenda is to miss the tone and temper of the work. Foxfire has already been called a "hillbilly Our Town," which...
...poor urban centers or traveling by horse or burro along narrow footpaths to remote villages. Another week followed in seclusion while the brothers reflected on how much they had learned about faith and Christian living from these simple people. Other friendships have taken the brothers on similar retreats to Appalachia, the West Indies island of Dominica and one of the oldest religious communities in the U.S., the Shakers of Sabbathday Lake village in New Gloucester...