What’s the Matter With Eastern Kentucky? Whats the Matter With You? Frankly I don't see a thing wrong with Eastern Kentucky, unless you're speaking of the druggie problem...
Sure, parts are a little remote and inaccessible, but does that mean it's a problem? Maybe we enjoy our rolling factory free hills, maybe we don't need to make $150,000.00 a year to be happy or have a better life, maybe we don't need a formal education to have a love for a simple life. Maybe us Kentuckians can see a little something besides bank accounts and social status.
Maybe us Kentuckians are satisfied with a farm pond full of bass, a whippoorwill calling to it's mate somewhere down a holler (you do know what a holler is don't you?), a rocks glass with fine Kentucky bourbon kissing your lips, or maybe just laying in a hammock petting our dog... It doesn't have to be down town before it's a good place to live.
Personally I'm poor as the day is long, but I can go to sleep at night with a stress/guilt free mind. When will people learn it's not always about the amount of cash in a persons pocket, it's more about the person the pocket belongs to. As Abraham Lincoln once said "in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years." (might I add is a fellow Kentuckian).
As A Kentuckian I could come to your home town and say "well, these people live in a bunch of bricks and mortar, don't have time for a sun rise, the air smells of automobile emissions, and the poor souls have never eaten a home grown ear of corn. What a miserable existence they must live... Maybe if we gave them a few thousand bushels it might give them the kick start to live better..." But I don't, because we believe in letter our neighbors be, unless they started it.
Don't you worry about Kentucky, let Kentucky worry about Kentucky...
Kentucky For Kentucky
Here is the original article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/magazine/whats-the-matter-with-eastern-kentucky.html?emc=eta1&_r=1
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