This flooding in eastern Kentucky is awful. The pictures are very disturbing.
Our church did a mission trip to this area a few years ago. It's a different world in a number of ways. Very poor folks so this is even more tragic for people that didn't have much anyway and it's very unlikely many of them have insurance. A lot of these folks won't accept any help from anyone so this is even more tragic.
The death toll is rising. I have heard that the state will be paying for the funerals for those families that are interested.
I am reading that some historic Appalachian history documents may have been destroyed.
The materials in its archives cover nearly a century of life and work in the region, according to Appalshop, including coal mining, labor strikes, religious practices, out-migration, farming, traditional folk arts, musicians, storytellers, politics, and environmental activism. Dee Davis, who worked at Appalshop for 25 years and whose wife, filmmaker Mimi Pickering, works there, called the archive “precious cargo” in an NPR interview this week. “That’s — those are the stories of miners and quilters and people who have built this place and learned the lessons the hard way,” said Davis, now president of Center for Rural Strategies. “And it’s really important information. And it’s a treasure.”
Our church did a mission trip to this area a few years ago. It's a different world in a number of ways. Very poor folks so this is even more tragic for people that didn't have much anyway and it's very unlikely many of them have insurance. A lot of these folks won't accept any help from anyone so this is even more tragic.
The death toll is rising. I have heard that the state will be paying for the funerals for those families that are interested.
I am reading that some historic Appalachian history documents may have been destroyed.
The materials in its archives cover nearly a century of life and work in the region, according to Appalshop, including coal mining, labor strikes, religious practices, out-migration, farming, traditional folk arts, musicians, storytellers, politics, and environmental activism. Dee Davis, who worked at Appalshop for 25 years and whose wife, filmmaker Mimi Pickering, works there, called the archive “precious cargo” in an NPR interview this week. “That’s — those are the stories of miners and quilters and people who have built this place and learned the lessons the hard way,” said Davis, now president of Center for Rural Strategies. “And it’s really important information. And it’s a treasure.”
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