http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/06/traveling-219-project-gathers-wv-oral-histories-along-road-of-same-name.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Sun, 19 May 2013 20:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/06/traveling-219-project-gathers-wv-oral-histories-along-road-of-same-name.html#comment-899669 Clyde Hamrick Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:52:42 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/?p=7402#comment-899669 I can’t help but think how the Great Depression in the Appalachia region inspired the trilogy ‘The Hunger Games.’ It was set in a twisted kind of post-apocalypse Appalachia. Hunger, sickness, and death were painted so well in the film. I hope we don’t forget our nation’s past mistakes, and I believe that Traveling 219 will do a good job in keeping our history’s lessons alive.

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