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Bill Fulkerson

ramp hollow: the ordeal of appalachia - 1 views

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shared by Bill Fulkerson on 04 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Steve Bosserman on 04 Mar 18
     
    NY Times review: "The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains" by Dwight Garner https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/books/review-ramp-hollow-ordeal-of-appalachia-steven-stoll.html
Bill Fulkerson

Book Review: The Ordeal of Appalachia - ProPublica - 0 views

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  • Bill Fulkerson on 02 Nov 17
     
    "Stoll offers the ideal complement. He has set out to tell the story of how the people of a sprawling region of our country - one of its most physically captivating and ecologically bountiful - went from enjoying a modest but self-sufficient existence as small-scale agrarians for much of the 18th and 19th centuries to a dreary dependency on the indulgence of coal barons or the alms of the government."
Steve Bosserman

A Road Trip Through Rusting and Rising America - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Steve Bosserman on 25 May 17 - No Cached
  • The big divide in America is not between the coasts and the interior. It’s between strong communities and weak communities. You can find weak ones along the coast and thriving ones in Appalachia, and vice versa. It’s community, stupid — not geography.The communities that are making it share a key attribute: They’ve created diverse adaptive coalitions, where local businesses get deeply involved in the school system, translating in real time the skills being demanded by the global economy.
  • Show me a community that understands today’s world and is working together to thrive within it, and I’ll show you a community on the rise — coastal or interior, urban or rural.
  • What is wrong with America is that too many communities, rural and urban, have broken down. What is right with America is the many communities and regions that are coming together to help their citizens acquire the skills and opportunities to own their own futures. We need to share and scale these success stories.
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