- there s so much negativity surrounding this place that no one ever focuses on the positive. they see us as ignorant or hillbillies. - overdose capital of the east coast. - there s really more here than just poverty and illiteracy and drugs. there s a lot of good people here. - 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 shit burn in your heart, you understand me? we got some ground to make up, but once we make that ground up, we ll take off. let s go! [applause, cheers] [upbeat rock music] both: 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 - la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la - sha la, la, la - sha la, la, la, la sha la, la, la, la, la [instrumental music] new york city, where i live. and it s easy to think, having
who, despite what you may think, are not unrealistic about a return to the glory days of coal and better times. - i drank coffee from the time i could walk. they put coffee in your bottle, coffee or wine. [laughs] - linda mckinney is a true daughter of appalachia. she raised her children here. linda s husband, bob mckinney, is a longtime mine safety inspector. now, your family s originally from naples? is that right? naples area? - yes. yes. came here in 1923 trying to strike it rich in the coal mines. my mother died when i was five, so we went to live with my nonna, and the first day i was there, she pulled me up to a cook stove. - dinner is a not untypical expression of hardscrabble appalachian practicality. - now, i don t measure anything, so nothing has a recipe here. - and neapolitan roots. - this my dad would call piselles; it s peas. ooh, making mama dance. [laughs] now, this is what i m famous for in these parts.