[ cheering ] robie: this place was a boomin . you couldn t get through this town down there. but it s dead now. about eight or ten coal mines shut down at one time. coach: let s go! it s the same halftime speech every single week. quentin: there is so much negativity surrounding this place that no one ever focuses on the positive. they see us as ignorant or hillbillies. daniel whitt: overdose capital of the east coast. quentin: but there s more here than just poverty and illiteracy and drugs. there s a lot of good people here. coach: when you walk on this field, you better have tunnel vision. don t look left, don t look right. you look at that scoreboard, and that should burn in your heart. do you understand me? we got some ground to make up. and once we make that ground up, we ll take off. let s go. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting cold
You look at that scoreboard, and that should burn in your heart. Do you understand me . We got some ground to make up. And once we make that ground up, well take off. Lets go. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la anthony new york city, where i live. And its easy to think, having lived here nearly all my life, that this is what america looks like, thinks like, that the things that are important to me are important to everybody. That every place else is out there. Unthinkable, maybe even unknowable. [ rain falling ] [ water rushing ] [ birds chirping ] anthony 600 miles away from midtown manhattan is Mcdowell County, West Virginia. Another america. In the mind of many of my fellow new yorkers the heart of god, guns, and trump country. The existential enemy. There is a place on gods cr
create something like a lemon pie and you don t have lemon juice. what do you do? put some vinegar and some nutmeg together and you get that same kind of tang. anthony: appalachia has a rich and deep culinary culture. increasingly fetishized, riffed on, appropriated for the genteel tastes of a hipster elite willing to pay big bucks for what used to be, and still is in many cases, the food of poverty. mike: we see that ramps are selling for $30 a pound in new york city that we re harvesting in west virginia, and what s west virginia seeing from that? probably a guy that got about $2 a pound. emily hillard: it becomes just another extractive industry like coal or timber. and you sort of start to see that anthony: that s the story of west virginia. emily: yeah. anthony: chef mike costello and partner amy dawson are looking to keep that culture alive and appreciate it, and paying off locally for the region it originated in.
FAIRMONT — The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center’s Trunk of Traditional Tunes series continues Sunday at 2 p.m. with author and educator Sarah Sullivan.
FAIRMONT — The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center’s Trunk of Traditional Tunes series continues Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. on the campus of Fairmont State University.