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Photo by Steve Lehman  

Iree Bowling on the good and bad times.


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Hollow
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audio Iree Bowling is the matriarch of a family that lives, deep in an isolated hollow of eastern Kentucky, in the ways and with the grit of an earlier time. Bowling, her forebears and many offspring live off their land and their ingenuity – eating from her big garden and canned vegetables, hunting, pulling water from wells, taking from the woods their winter warmth and plants they can peddle. They survive with the help of monthly welfare checks. That money buys cars, appliances, necessities, but the balance is essential: The Bowlings could not have one without the other.

 
 
 
 
 
 





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