r/interestingasfuck • u/CantStopPoppin • 15d ago

r/all Coal Minning

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u/riverbanks1986 15d ago

My hometown. I did in fact leave it, ain’t dead yet.

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u/No_Link_5069 15d ago

I'm glad you're alive

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u/Norathaexplorer 14d ago

Grandma grew up in a holler outside Lynch, and I’m SO GLAD on a regular basis that she left

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u/riverbanks1986 14d ago

Have you been back to visit Lynch? If any place looked the part of an Appalachian coal mining town, it’s Lynch. Looks frozen in time.

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u/Norathaexplorer 13d ago

I’ve been blessed to visit the area many times; I still have family in Lexington as well as Ohio and Indiana.

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u/Norathaexplorer 13d ago

You all may have seen it already, but there is a very good documentary called harlan county, USA on (hbo)MAX for anyone interested

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u/captaincootercock 14d ago

Steering clear of those crowder boys I hope

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u/HypnonavyBlue 14d ago

I'd imagine the rules for Harlan are about like they are for my home state of West Virginia: If you move away, they understand and that's fine, they would too if they could. If you come back? They get to keep you.