We got a really great (and somewhat disturbing) comment from Lisa Leavitt, a former resident of Odd, West Virginia, a place we posted about a little while ago. It reads like the basis for a novel or some soon-to-be-made series for HBO. Thanks for sharing, Lisa!
I lived in Odd, WV from the 6th grade through graduation, looking at
your pictures I realize the little "town" has grown. There was a little
country store with a coal stove and a teeny little post office when I
lived there. There were hollers I remember driving to a little Baptist
church where there was a family (I won't mention the name) that had long
been an incestual family - I remember one of the brothers chasing our
car down the dirt road with an axe. It was beautiful there - our
nearest neighbor I could only see in the winter when the smoke from
their chimney raised over the mountain. I got my first and only taste
of moonshine standing waiting for the bus at 6:30 a.m. to take me to
Stoco Jr. High and a boy named JimJim let me drink from what I thought
was his "7-Up" can, to take some aspirin for a headache - needless to
say, after that drink, I didn't think of my headache, too busy trying to
catch my breath. Thank you for posting the new "modern" Odd, WV
pictures.
Day 8: Some Tennessee
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This post covers the day spent in the northwest corner of Tennessee en
route to Kentucky. At the Tennessee/Kentucky border in Hazel, KY —
representative fr...
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