You've done a good thing, Joel. Speaking of limited health care, a
group like "Doctors without Borders" now makes regular trips to areas
like this around the US. Dental care is also seriously lacking.
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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Thanks for the pictures (and your service). CNN recently had a piece on
> Clay county discussing the limited health care available in poor, rural
> areas.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> Recovering from a great service trip to Clay county, Kentucky, where I
>> worked with a crew to do some home repair in a rural area for a family
>> of six, crammed into a structure about the size of my wife's and my
>> first apartment when we were graduate students. Some photos are here
>> (taken with C-8080):
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2014291&id=1261510733&l=ae3cd3cb9f
>>
>> I had very little time to shoot, much to my regret, but that wasn't
>> the purpose of the trip. That part of Kentucky is very beautiful to
>> my eyes, though poor as hell. I can see why people don't leave it
>> despite such a hardscrabble existence. It was considered bad form to
>> shoot before and after types of photos, so you can only get an
>> impression of the structure from the background of the images.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the first of my Kodachrome rolls came back from Dwayne's.
>> I had a recovery day yesterday after the trip and spent a lot of it
>> scanning.
>>
>> Joel W.
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