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Looking At Appalachia

By Frank Stasio,
Laura Lee
Published January 22, 2015 at 11:57 AM EST
Ronald Sowder cuts Tom Fitzsimmons hair in Hinton, Summers County, West Virginia .
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Ronald Sowder cuts Tom Fitzsimmons hair in Hinton, Summers County, West Virginia.
Ryan Stone / Looking at Appalachia
Berea, Madison County, Kentucky
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Berea, Madison County, Kentucky
Meg Wilson / Looking at Appalachia
Radio personality Tommy Jett sets out for the Tennessee Radio Personality Hall of Fame dinner from his home in Flintstone, Walker County, Georgia.
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Radio personality Tommy Jett sets out for the Tennessee Radio Personality Hall of Fame dinner from his home in Flintstone, Walker County, Georgia.
Maura Friedman / Chattanooga Times Free Press
Rachel Hartzler, 7, takes a minute in between sessions of playing tag behind the Sugar Tree Country Store during the Highland Maple Festival in McDowell, Highland County, Virginia.
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Rachel Hartzler, 7, takes a minute in between sessions of playing tag behind the Sugar Tree Country Store during the Highland Maple Festival in McDowell, Highland County, Virginia.
Katie Currid / Looking at Appalachia
Sandy Hook, Washington County, Maryland
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Sandy Hook, Washington County, Maryland
Kristian Thacker / Looking at Appalachia

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty. The images of the Appalachia region from that period created stereotypes of its people and land for the rest of the country.

Map of Appalachia
Credit http://www.arc.gov/images/appregion/AppalachianRegionCountiesMap.pdf
Map of Appalachia

Some of the images will be on display at the inaugural Looking at Appalachia exhibition at the Spartanburg County Public Library in May 2015. The project is receiving submissions for 2015. Details found here. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Laura Lee
Laura Lee was the managing editor of The State of Things until mid February 2017. Born and raised in Monroe, North Carolina, Laura returned to the Old North state in 2013 after several years in Washington, DC. She received her B.A. in political science and international studies from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002 and her J.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in 2007.
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