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Let Them Rot?

Let Them Rot? Thomas Parrish Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 1992, pp. 3-4 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0057 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438387/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:39 GMT from JHU Libraries THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Thomas Parrish One day in the midst of the antipoverty skirmishes of the 1960s, a staff member of the Council of the Southern Mountains drove from Berea up to Harlan County, Kentucky, on a mission that was partly errand of mercy, partly an attempt to handle a personnel problem. Council head- quarters had been informed that the director of a small community center sponsored by the council had been flung into jail for a drearily familiar offense, failure to pay child support. Underlying this man's bad record was his real problem, active alcoholism. For a long time before he got the community-center job, he hadn't worked anywhere; the job, which he had held only briefly, represented his first chance in several years to have any kind of regular income. Council staff members knew that in hiring this man they were taking a gamble. They could encourage him to get and stay sober, but http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Let Them Rot?

Parrish, Thomas.
Appalachian Review , Volume 20 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Thomas Parrish Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 1992, pp. 3-4 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0057 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438387/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:39 GMT from JHU Libraries THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Thomas Parrish One day in the midst of the antipoverty skirmishes of the 1960s, a staff member of the Council of the Southern Mountains drove from Berea up to Harlan County, Kentucky, on a mission that was partly errand of mercy, partly an attempt to handle a personnel problem. Council head- quarters had been informed that the director of a small community center sponsored by the council had been flung into jail for a drearily familiar offense, failure to pay child support. Underlying this man's bad record was his real problem, active alcoholism. For a long time before he got the community-center job, he hadn't worked anywhere; the job, which he had held only briefly, represented his first chance in several years to have any kind of regular income. Council staff members knew that in hiring this man they were taking a gamble. They could encourage him to get and stay sober, but

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