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When the Smoke Clears

When the Smoke Clears Leigh Ann Eagleston Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 1998, pp. 38-39 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0052 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435461/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:56 GMT from JHU Libraries When the Smoke Clears Leigh Ann Eagleston If you look at a road map of the South, you will see hundreds of miles between Memphis, Tennessee, and Southeastern Kentucky. On a cultural map, the distance is even greater. As a native of Ashland, an industrial Kentucky river town, I find little in Memphis that looks like home. But I have a quick remedy when I get homesick. I just drive by the Mapco Petroleum plant. Mapco is a city in itself, just this side of Interstate 240, with great vats of oU surrounded by skyscraper smokestacks coughing into the hundred- degree sky. So many skyscrapers that they form a skyline of their own-a familiar view to me. Without its factories, Ashland, Kentucky, would have no skyline. And whfle tiiey fiUed our sky with smoke, they lined our daddies' wallets on payday. Thousands of cars would stream out of the hills to the plant entrances every morning. And http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

When the Smoke Clears

Eagleston, Leigh Ann.
Appalachian Review , Volume 26 (1) – Jan 8, 2014
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Leigh Ann Eagleston Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 1998, pp. 38-39 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0052 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435461/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:56 GMT from JHU Libraries When the Smoke Clears Leigh Ann Eagleston If you look at a road map of the South, you will see hundreds of miles between Memphis, Tennessee, and Southeastern Kentucky. On a cultural map, the distance is even greater. As a native of Ashland, an industrial Kentucky river town, I find little in Memphis that looks like home. But I have a quick remedy when I get homesick. I just drive by the Mapco Petroleum plant. Mapco is a city in itself, just this side of Interstate 240, with great vats of oU surrounded by skyscraper smokestacks coughing into the hundred- degree sky. So many skyscrapers that they form a skyline of their own-a familiar view to me. Without its factories, Ashland, Kentucky, would have no skyline. And whfle tiiey fiUed our sky with smoke, they lined our daddies' wallets on payday. Thousands of cars would stream out of the hills to the plant entrances every morning. And

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