How to Extract the Story of Appalachia
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“I can’t help but think of the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Called by aliens, the main character sculpting the mountain over and over again.”This is how Fia Backström describes her experience of West Virginia in The Great Society, on view at the Queens Museum. The comparison echoes a long history of Appalachia being framed as strange and backward.For Backström, West Virginians might seem alien. For me, they are family and friends.I am writing on behalf
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