
Work of the quiet mountains
Updated: Apr 7, 2021
"This is not the Newton County of Dogpatch stereotypes that most outsiders expect. No Daisy Maes and Lil’ Abners. No moonshiners. No corncob pipes. And it’s not my hillbilly idyll of deer-hunting, creek-fishing, overall-wearing, slow-drawl family, either. But that’s an indictment of my narrow sense of the idyllic."
Published in the Bitter Southerner
