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Meredith Sue Willis Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1994, pp. 54-58 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0029 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436560/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:03 GMT from JHU Libraries What I Know About Scott County, Tennessee Meredith Sue Willis After growing up in the Appalachian region, I lived for twenty years in New York City. During my time there, many of the things people dread most about big cities happened to me: I had my apartment burglarized and my pocketbook picked; I was mugged by knife-wielding thugs. But the only time I ever had a gun pointed at me was in Scott County, Tennessee. My Aunt Okey Jo and Uncle Thurman Mullins lived in Scott County. She was a school teacher, and he was a store manager for one of the timber companies working the mountainous Tennessee forests. Uncle Thurman grew up a few mountains away, near Wise, Virginia. After serving in Wold War II, he didn't want to go to college, and he didn't want to dig in the earth or under it, so he signed on with the company. As store manager, he got
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
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