| If you haven't read Jack Cawthon's "Pass the Plate,
Momma! Don't be a Piker with the Biker!" - you might check it
out.
Jack says there is both good news and bad news in the way
West Virginians are currently portrayed in the movies.
The good news is that we may be winning the battle to
overcome the Beverly Hillbillies image; the bad news is
that the latest movie presents us as cannibals.
"The plot of the movie deals with some tourists who become lost in the hills of West
Virginia. They stop to ask a gap-toothed, mentally challenged (sound
authentic to
you?) gas station attendant directions and shortly thereafter find
themselves in a
stew." "You have to admit that this is a welcome change over the
"Hillbilly" image
that always portrays us as lazy no-goods, lounging in the yard filled
with cars up on
blocks and strewn with garbage, with a passel of half-naked kids
running around
while a harried woman leans in the doorway to a porch that is sagging
from car
parts and old washing machines."
The rest of the story under COLUMNS......
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