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[ 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,...

Inspector. >> anthony: now your family is originally from naples, is that right? >> linda: yes. >> anthony: naples area? >> linda: came here in 1923 trying to strike it rich in the coalmines. 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. >> anthony: dinner is a not untypical expression of hard scrabble appalachian practicality -- >> linda: now i don't measure anything, so nothing has a recipe here. >> anthony: -- and neapolitan roots. >> linda: these my dad would call pisellis, it's peas. mm, making mama dance....

To the glory days of coal and better times. >> linda mckinney: i drank coffee from the time i could walk. they put coffee in your bottle. coffee or wine. [ laughter ] >> anthony: linda mckinney is a true daughter of appalachia. she raised her children here. linda's husband, bob mckinney, is a long-time mine safety inspector. >> anthony: now your family is originally from naples, is that right? >> linda: yes. >> anthony: naples area? >> linda: came here in 1923 trying to strike it rich in the coalmines. my mother died when i was five, so we went to live with my nonna, and the first day i was th...

♪ >> sarah slone: the people here are very good. they'd give you the shirt off their back. come together in times of tragedy or anything. >> anthony: christian values means something here. they are practiced on the street and in the home. >> linda: most of you've all got your potatoes, right? >> anthony: linda runs "5 loaves & 2 fishes", a food bank that holds many of the lives here together during tough times. 16,000 people walk through these doors annually, in a county of 20,000. >> bob: gracious god, we just thank you for this day that we're able to give food out again, this is not a regu...

>> linda: yes. >> anthony: naples area? >> linda: came here in 1923 trying to strike it rich in the coalmines. 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. this is a dish that my nonna cooked during hunting season, with squirrels. these aren't squirrels. this is chicken. >> anthony: dinner is a not untypical expression of hard scrabble appalachian practicality -- >> linda: now i don't measure anything, so nothing has a recipe here. >> anthony: -- and neapolitan roots. >> linda: basil. >> anthony: home kitchen ...