Word: appalachia
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...WALKING along Boylston St. one day recently when I noticed a listing of "The Appalachia Shop" at the entrance to the new Garage shopping complex. I thought about my mountain ancestors, who were making quilts and selling mules a couple of generations ago, and about what LBJ said of the problems of mountain people, and then decided to find out what this bit of supposed craft and likely underdevelopment was doing in the middle of Harvard Square's trendiest new investment...
Returning along the long ramp which leads into the Garage I brought a svelte, sensitive, Southern friend of mine and a few journalistic plural pronouns. We found the Appalachia shop in a small open booth near places that push Polish and Central American crafts. It was full of stuffed animals, handmade cutting boards, quilts encased in plastic, patchwork pillow kits, brightly colored hearth brooms, and a couple of striking cardboard carton displays of something called "Jack Guy Folk Toys...
...unlike Durham, it is a gray and decaying town. Eastport is too far from big cities to be a summer haven for tourists, and so its economy is dependent on declining fishing and fish-processing industries. Unemployment is so high that the area has been called "a down-East Appalachia...
...social disintegration," says Dr. Charles Hudson, chief of psychiatric services at the U.S. Public Health Service's Alaska Native Medical Center. "The original social structure in many places in rural Alaska has been blown apart, much as it has been in central cities, the ghettos and Appalachia. The things that were important to people have been taken away, and when there's nothing to do, they'll take their last buck to get a bottle and stay drunk all the time...
...employment offices. Those offices would draw from a central computer daily lists of jobs available all over the country. Gardner Ackley, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has suggested in addition that the Government pay the travel and moving costs of workers migrating from depressed regions like Appalachia to take jobs in more prosperous areas. At present, Ackley points out, a level of demand high enough to put people to work in the depressed areas creates inflationary labor shortages in the richer regions that could be relieved by increased worker mobility. All three ideas offer a rare chance...