Our Town Ohio

is an Appalachian Tiny Town

Another of the documentaries was about a kid whose parents are fifth generation Appalachian Ohioans that made a twenty year move to Alaska while their kids were young, and then moved back.

Mrs. Gibbs! Mrs. Webb! Appalachian-style!

This teen spent his childhood trying to figure out what made his family different from the Alaskans. When he moved back to Ohio he finally figured out that he defines independence differently than very independent Alaskans. - being geographically isolated, Alaskans expect to do everything themselves, as in - solo; Appalachians, also geographically isolated, expect to do everything for their themselves, as in - their families (which are huge! his dad was #16 of 17!).

That's his grandfather in the middle of that photo, and on the left in the older photo, his great grandfather is the one without the hat. This is the several generation family house...does that count as a log cabin?

He then redefines the word understand as under-stand - to know each other so well you stand under each other. to support.

This one is a little bleak.

“my generation got smartphones, consoles, laptops and computers. Somewhere along the way we forgot the virtual world we lived in came with a price. It cost us real life. Somewhere between so…