On The Appalachian Trail
Eastern Kentucky
'Bloody' Harlan's fondest birthright
is still the Right To Bear
Arms; and use them.
Out on some grit road, from
a crawling Dodge, these Good Ole Boys
'll meet your eye and slowy raise a hand,
a loaded blue Colt
in the dash...
But most places you go in Appalachia
Heritage looks what
it is all over:
denizen tourism.
In the roadside Art Outlets
taped homeboy bluegrass vies
with handmade
kitsch: once parochialism
gets shown
its own face
in the mirror it's no
use for anything
except a passing trade.
This isn't hinterland Wales; these
pits aren't yet Labour Museums.
But with a Company union,
the Longwall one-man computer-
operated shearer down
the mine, and mechanised 'Mountaintop
Removal' above ground,
craftwork and local colourists
look like the one sure
future here too. Even
the saw-toothed knuckledusters
in the Harlan County Gun Store
count as handcraft
(though that's to get around the law).
Brass Paperweights,
they come at a snug
6 oz. and retail at $8.50.
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