OT: Northern Miss/Alab/Georg to southwestern NY and the rural mountain areas between. Penn State made an award winning documentary called the , which followed an Appalachian woman and her family for twenty-five or so years, checking in on them every few years from 1970 on, showing their meager existence, terrible housing, etc. I grew up a couple miles from there, intown as they would say. My father was their doctor. The kids went to school with us at one point.