Are you hill folk or flatlander?
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Hmpff! Casting aspersions at my betweenness!! 
Always a thrill on my bike.....
Proof? One leg slightly shorter.
You should see the cows, horses and mules......
My family was poor and a trip to the Smokies was a huge treat. As an adult, the circular trip around through Cherokee, Fontana Dam, Maryville and then to Pigeon Forge in a sporty car was one heck of a treat. Too old for that now.
I'll always remember that long stretch of central Ohio driving east out of Columbus toward Cambridge. Sort of like driving through Nebraska, LOL. Quiet, sleepy farm towns abound.
Was raised not far from Nashville and it's one of my favorite cities although like most, it's grown a lot since my day. Best BBQ on the planet, IMO and lots of gentle people. Plenty of nice areas to retire in that zone of America even though it converted from blue to red during my youth (Al Gore, Sr. years). Hopefully that disease will be cured in the next 50 years or so.
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Of Marsha Blackburn, but instead make it Mitch.
I am 2 blocks off I 70, not far from 75. That awful 10, 11 hour drive through every little Ky. Town on 25, ( Appalachian Highway,)was cut to 4.5 by 75. Called that because on Friday night the workers headed home to Ky. Or Tennessee.
but we'll keep going until he's gone. It would be such a relief for KY Dems if he were impeached. We must find a way to counter this right-wing entrenchment in states like KY and TN caused by brainwashing of millions of previously decent citizens in rural areas by talk radio and Faux News, along with co-opting a significant percentage of protestant churches. This will be a very long road of change.
My wife and a group of her fellow retired friends will be visiting your fair state in July, when they'll rent a cabin at Hocking Hills State Park, about 30-miles southeast of Columbus. It's one of their favorites in their rotation of several places to take mini-vacations that also includes the Great Smoky Mountain area.
The nastiest job I recall during my days as a service engineer was in a steel mill in Lima. But, like much of northern Ohio, the special treat always was the great Italian family restaurants that are rare here. Same during some work I did in Lorain, northern Indiana and western PA. I always tried to find something local and special everywhere I traveled.
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who worked in timber all his life and dragged logs out of forests with mules during the Depression. The nature of mountain people best matches mine with their slow, quiet ways. I always feel at home there. One of the most serene places I've been was during weekend caving expeditions while in college in Cookeville in the late 60s in places near Livingston and Sparta in very remote forest. No sound of mankind for hours on end and always a cool gentle breeze. Really miss those days of innocence and peace.
As you suggested, one big negative back in those days was extreme racism against blacks, especially in remote mountainous areas. Most folks there knew little or nothing about the outside world, had almost no exposure to other than white people and had none since the Civil War. So, maybe not so surprising and much of that cultural isolation and backwardness remains today.
My home area closer to Nashville was more racially moderate although still very backwards in many ways. When we graduated from high school in '65, we had hardly even heard of religions like Islam or Buddhism, had no exposure to Latino or any other cultures and had no knowledge about LGBT people, drug use or abortion. We thought Catholics were horrible sinners because they spoke in tongues and allowed drinking and dancing in church. For me, a move northward after college slowly changed all that.
How times have changed!.......
One leg shorter than the other?
that is almost the drop from my house to the barn 
(yes slight exaggeration 
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we have a pipeline that runs a 600 foot lift/drop and that doesn't include the well depth.
While it does give a nice view, it is really not much of a valley below us!
Considering that my MIL's house is on "high" ground in Panama City at 14 feet above sea level, a 200' ridge is quite a hill to that side of the family.
And I grew up in Southeastern Ohio.
I worked with a woman from Ky. She was always talking about her late husband,Jmearl. Finally after listening to her I asked,” Are you saying Jim Earl? She answered, That is right, Jmearl!”
Sure you are not still?
