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Wayne Meisel Introduction A friend of mine from Chicago retells the story about the first person she met in Kentucky . She introduced herself and said that she was a VISTA. "You're a visitor," the elderly woman replied. "No," my friend responded, worrying that the language barrier was going to be more difficult that she had thought. "No, I am a VISTA, Volunteers In Service To America!" "You're a visitor," the woman said once again. This exchange happened several more times until my friend actually realized that there was no language barrier at all. The elderly woman was indeed saying that she was a visitor. This incident was the first and perhaps the most important training she was to receive during her year-long stay in Kentucky. In her retelling of it and in her conveying its obvious personal impact, it had an impact on me. This region has a legacy of people coming to help. Some like my friend come and go, while others like Marie Cirillo from Woodlawn Community Land Trust and Danny Green from the David School have made their life here and never returned from whence they came. I, too, thought that I was headed
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1999
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