Here's Why People Still Live Up These Hollers (From An Appalachian Local)

If you want to walk up into this country and come back down alive: www.Otisboone.com Up these hollers, a man went to jail singing the national anthem, a widow lay down in front of a bulldozer, and another man turned down millions of dollars, all so they wouldn't have to give up their ground. Folks on the outside figure the people at the end of those one-lane dirt roads are too poor or too stubborn to leave. I'm from these mountains, and the real reasons go back generations. In this video: The 2022 eastern Kentucky flood, and why so many families rebuilt in the same spot Corbin Hollow, and the 1933 book that called mountain families "not of the 20th century" How Shenandoah National Park was made, and the families who were moved off that mountain The broad form deeds that let coal companies strip the land out from under families The family graveyards on the hill, and why they face east If you've ever driven past a holler and wondered why anybody still lives up there, this one's for you. Subscribe for more of these mountains, told by the folks who live up them. #Appalachia #AppalachianHistory #Hollers #AppalachianMountains #ShenandoahNationalPark #WestVirginia #EasternKentucky #OtisBoone