Has anyone seen this documentary?, "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"?
Gina, what ever you do stay where you are and live your life peacefully.
Do not leave your place of safety and understanding. You and your life style are the top of the chain in the civilised world.
Do not take any kind or road trip that involves others life styles, and it you find your have inadvertently wandered into anyone Else's turf, shut your mind to their ways.
May surprise you but the life style in West Virgina has a mirror image in all states.
Poor folks, not by their choice but circumstances, no tie and suit for family members, they may farm or make pieces of art by crafting. They have skills that rival out top scientists breed into them. They do not have to have a college education to know when a storm is coming up, when the next year will be a wet or dry one. Can you Devinne for water.??
They are the first to alert authority's when there is a problem with their lakes or streams, the first to recognise health problems with the wild game they shoot or their children's health.
You can also go to Silicone Vally and find the top Scientists that commit incest or get their Ass in a pickle over Kiddie Porn, or drugs
Sorry Gina, but as a Yankee living with technology all my life, it is a time of peace for me to visit what some consider trash. A bit different and strange to us but they have their ways that are survival instinct, their home grown artests, builders, and those that have taught themself a trade from Grand pa on up.
Fiddlers convention where self taught people can play that instrument like we seldom hear. Old men come out of the mountins bare foot carring their tap shoes and a piece of corrugate metal. They lay down the metal, put on the shoes and clog their hearts out..
I for one when town life gets to me remembers the life others have, especially the poor that live everywhere.
These are the people that will come running if your barns on fire and help you rebuild it. The people that welcome you to a bean supper at their church, help you round up cattle that find a way to get out into the road.
THERE IS NO SUCH PEOPLE THAT ARE TRASH, THEY MAY BE POOR, DRINK MOONSHINE AND RAISE HELL, LIVE IN THE OUTBACKS IN A SHACK WITH NO RUNNING WATER---THESE ARE THE FIRST TO EDUCATE YOU ON LIFE, READ THE BIBLE EVERY NIGHT, HUNT GAME FOR FOOD AND THE WOMAN FOLK EVEN IF HIGH ON POT CAN MAKE A QUILT TO DIE FOR
.Now on to the inner city trash that has much to teach us and head west to the Latinos that can home cook from scratch food that you will yearn for again for the rest of your life.
These poor folk are BETTER then Me, I realise it, know it, they have survival skills that are generations in the making. I marval at the art work that comes out of the Mountains, the Music and the ability these people--smoking dope or drinking moon shine have to go about their daily lives living on common sense and little modern education.
Stay away from these folks that are benith you, Gina you may know[ PI ]but they know when to spend the night in a barn when a horse or cow goes into labor.
That picture of a woman in a West Virgina traler could have been taken of some house wives in Beverly Hills.
