Dying to Make a Living
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Old-time Kentucky music duo The Local Honeys (@thelocalhoneys) take us on a tour of Appalachian coal country, where we meet the miners who went on strike at the Blackjewel coal mine and others who are turning hard-luck into new music at the Appalachian School of Luthiery-proving that coal may break their body and break their land, but it can never break their spirit.
A torrential downpour hit Eastern Kentucky in July 2022 causing Troublesome Creek to overflow its banks and destroy the equipment of The Troublesome Creek Stringed Instrument Company that saves lives by offering purpose and community to those in recovery from opioid addiction. Please consider donating to help founder Doug Naselroad rebuild this vital program for the community of Eastern Kentucky.
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Just another day of life y'all. Just another day. The struggles shall continue, and there is no life, rest, or peace without the Lord.
Heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.
People really gotta think about what we are doing!
Constructive jobs are jobs too. Jobs energy and the economy of these areas should not rest on the destruction of our place to belong!
As a fellow film maker. This is unreal, the ability to story tell is extremely hard . I might be an emotional person but damn I cried.
Gotta appreciate Patagonia bringing a story like this to life....and in a new format no less.
Beautifully told, Linda Jean and Montana. You kids brought me to tears! Thank you so much!
Excellent story Patagonia! Taking the story away from the bad corporations alone and telling a story about the interaction between the environment and the people that live there makes the story much more powerful. Great work!
Wow so much truth. God bless coal country and this mission. A purpose is so empowering
Brilliant story filled with sadness and hope. Gutted to hear about Troublesome Creek. Will definitely support the effort to rebuild. Thank you for sharing this.
This was a great watch! Sending our best to The Local Honeys and Patagonia.
Powerful piece! This message doesn't discriminate against other states. The question will start with the Alternative as it always has. "The Climate Crisis" is just superficial. This is much deeper!
Excellent story Patagonia! Taking the story away from the bad corporations alone and telling a story about the interaction between the environment and the people that live there makes the story much more powerful. Great work! Also, awesome format!
Beautiful storytelling (and singing!)
Great storytelling. Looking forward to more videos like this one
Makes you think a lot. Super powerful
Great format! Love the mixed media approach. Beautifully told.
Gripping story, praying for those affected by the floods.
Was already a big fan of the local honeys, but wow! fascinating, passionate, and fricken cool.
This is Amazing!
For those interested in the history of this kind of activism read the essays:
“The Tyranny of Charity” and “The Landscaping of Hell: Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky” by Wendell Berry.
For starters.
Shared & donated. This was deeply touching
Powerful.
But Mitch McConnell is watching out for you.
Loved the video.
Deeply insightful. Thank you for unearthing ( no pun intended) this longstanding issue, that sadly has been glossed over, by design. Powerful ending. Roots run deep. If there's anything Appalachia can offer that other places cannot: sound music.
Spread this far and wide Patagonia!
Powerful stuff. Love to see it!
Thanks for sharing - a proud Kentuckian
Powerful!
Respect to all.
This is a good story for all of us to hear and (hopefully) revisit from time to time. There are better ways. These folks have been represented in the Senate by Mitch McConnell for nearly 40 years! Is anyone going to try to tell me they're better off for it? Vote Democratic like your life depends on it, it literally does.
This is the Great Awakening
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Patagonia does remarkable things
About to head underground now. Sucks but we gotta do it.
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I sympathize. I am writing to you in the south west of Algeria, in Kenadza, where there were coal mines during the period of French colonization. Victims, consequences to this day. 😳 What is still serious here is that these hills of coal residues have not been evacuated or hidden, 😑 they are still the arrogant and obscene witnesses of colonial exploitation and postcolonial neglect. I live a few hundred meters away my son got asthma because of the polluted air...
Legalize cannabis and make entry into the industry accessible like Oklahoma did, lots of new jobs in cannabis and hemp farming. Plus if it weren't for cannabis I'd probably be dead. 15 yrs ago I was addicted to crack and herion bad and I tried multiple rehabs, 12 step programs, complete sobriety. The only thing that worked for me was harm reduction, or as it known Marijuana maintenence. And after 15yrs off drugs i still smoke cannabis and i even grow it, honestly the growing has been the most therapeutic. I can't count on both hands all the other people I know who also use cannabis as a part of their recovery, especially recovering opioid addicts. Cannabis and hemp will bring jobs and healing to these communities.
I would have froze without coal to burn ,So would have half of America. Good thing that nasty old coal burnt ,otherwise trees would have taken their place.
“You’re telling a really beat-up, psychically scarred community that what they have isn’t just acceptable, what they have isn’t just desirable, what they have is EXCELLENT, what they are is EXCELLENT.” 🥲
better trouble