I left Appalachia in 1941..that is when Mom died and I and my Dad moved to Pulaski co. in a place called Parrott where his oldest daughter by his first wife lived..I stayed there until Dad died in 1943 and then went out on my own..went into the army in 1946...worked in Radford where I met my wife (a FCVA girl) in 1948..we married a year later and all our kids were born in Radford..we moved to FCVA in 1963....................Are you in FCVA now? Do you remember "Intermont" in Appalachia where the road turns to go to Inman? there wsa a drug store and barber shop there...have you seen the pictures of Wise Co. and Appalachia on the Wise Co. history site?..I had a sister in Big Stone Gap..she lived in Beamantown, out past the Glencoe Cemetery..Joe Beaman was my uncle....Beamantown was named for him..do you remember the big swimming pool at BSG? there was a big monkey in a cage there back in the late 30's and early 40's........I was born in Appalachia on 12-1-1927...... keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul