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Appalachia: The Dismal Land  

Harry Caudill ▪ November – December 1967

In the fall of 1963 Homer Bigart came to eastern Kentucky and wrote an article for the New York Times that described the ragged, undernourished people with whom he talked, and the flimsy shacks in which they lived. He told …



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