Proud Appalachians who live without running water or power

by **Stovepipe** 2012-04-24, 8:30 am

Proud Appalachians who live without running water or power in region where 40% fall below poverty line

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134196/Pictured-The-modern-day-poverty-Kentucky-people-live-running-water-electricity.html

Great pictures.

by **Stovepipe** 2012-04-24, 8:38 am

Adding this to Netflix ASAP:

http://wildandwonderfulwhites.com/

Also:

Also:

by **Stovepipe** 2012-04-24, 8:43 am

More material:

by **Toot** 2012-04-24, 9:34 am

Those videos are pretty old.....like 80s and 90s old. Not saying that people dont still live like that but the vids are old ones

by **Stovepipe** 2012-04-24, 9:50 am

Toot wrote:Those videos are pretty old.....like 80s and 90s old. Not saying that people dont still live like that but the vids are old ones

Not really that old.

The Wild and Wonderful Whites: 2009
A Hidden America: 2009
A Simple Life in the Appalachian Mountains: 2001
American Hollow: 1999

by **Math/Met** 2012-04-24, 10:56 am

I remember seeing this story at some point. It’s sad that there are still people living in that kind of poverty.

by **Toot** 2012-04-24, 1:24 pm

I seen the simple life in the apps on vhs back in the 90s

by **Stovepipe** 2012-04-24, 1:36 pm

Toot wrote:I seen the simple life in the apps on vhs back in the 90s

Must have been a different simple life than this one. From the people who recorded it:

This video represents our July 1st 2001 visit with Gene & Hansel at their homestead in eastern TN and in the lovely appalachian mountains complete from start to finish. I hope that you enjoy this experience as much as we did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4scwB83GbY&list=UUHHAkUOcm0VohswLIsTkmug