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♪ ♪ - 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 mus...

[ 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,...

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 th...

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...