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Show etters to the Editor ostalgia : touch of homesickness over-my over-my wife and me upon reading Brumfield's "Mr. Spence's ,! gework" in the Sept. 27 Chron-Being Chron-Being from Columbus, and ti'ng driven 1-75 through Cinn-i Cinn-i into Kentucky a few times, ire familiar with both the bridge the events described. Espe-fy Espe-fy nostalgic is the episode with Gene with his jalopy and Ap palachian dialect, which is almost unintelligible to those who haven't grown up around it. It is said that the three "R's" in West Virginia are "readin', 'ritin', and route 33 t'Clummus" (Columbus, and Cleveland, Cleve-land, Detroit, Toledo) where the jobs are. Since the older generations genera-tions stay on the old homesteads in the hills and valleys of Appalachia, the migrations such as Billy Gene's are extremely common. "Yew dun reel good b'printin' thet there piece!" Ryan Hoover Marriot Library |