Your pictures make me want to cry, they just tug at my heart.
Please don't let Jess go to Ohio. It'll make her a hard woman and will most likely break her in an ugly way. I'm not saying she can't heal from what Ohio dishes out, I'm just saying it'll leave a seam there. Do you know that there is a law in the city of Cincinnati that states employers cannot discriminate against people of Appalachian descent? How badly goes a group of people have to have it before they LEGISLATE against their mistreatment?
Or not, what do I know? My papaw was cut off from his family when he married "beneath him." My mamaw is from Kentucky; he was from Ohio. Doesn't seem like much changed.
And I miss Morehead in spring. I swam in Cave Run Lake in April before, just because it was the warmest day of the year thus far. Son of bitch, that was COLD water. Got detained there once - only reason I wasn't arrested is because the Fish & Wildlife guy didn't want to drive me clear to Mt. Sterling to the female detention center. He thought I was a duck poacher - I was just a pothead.
Anyway, makes me all nostalgic & shit. Thank you for sharing your life.
i don't know what to suggest to jess at the moment. she's not eeking out much of a happy way of life in kentucky at the moment. but like you, i fear ohio and the way it seems to leave people worn out and sullied. ick.
glad you enjoy the pictures! sometime when you're feeling extra nostalgic come down this way and we'll "poach some ducks" at cave run!
Please don't let Jess go to Ohio. It'll make her a hard woman and will most likely break her in an ugly way. I'm not saying she can't heal from what Ohio dishes out, I'm just saying it'll leave a seam there. Do you know that there is a law in the city of Cincinnati that states employers cannot discriminate against people of Appalachian descent? How badly goes a group of people have to have it before they LEGISLATE against their mistreatment?
Or not, what do I know? My papaw was cut off from his family when he married "beneath him." My mamaw is from Kentucky; he was from Ohio. Doesn't seem like much changed.
And I miss Morehead in spring. I swam in Cave Run Lake in April before, just because it was the warmest day of the year thus far. Son of bitch, that was COLD water. Got detained there once - only reason I wasn't arrested is because the Fish & Wildlife guy didn't want to drive me clear to Mt. Sterling to the female detention center. He thought I was a duck poacher - I was just a pothead.
Anyway, makes me all nostalgic & shit. Thank you for sharing your life.
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glad you enjoy the pictures! sometime when you're feeling extra nostalgic come down this way and we'll "poach some ducks" at cave run!
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