who, despite what you may think, are not unrealistic about a return to the glory days of coal and better times. - i drank coffee from the time i could walk. they put coffee in your bottle, coffee or wine. [laughs] - linda mckinney is a true daughter of appalachia. she raised her children here. linda's husband, bob mckinney, is a longtime mine safety inspector. now, your family's originally from naples? is that right? naples area? - yes. yes. came here in 1923 trying to strike it rich in the coal mines. my mother died when i was five, so we went to live with my nonna, and the first day i was there, she pulled me up to a cook stove. - dinner is a not untypical expression of hardscrabble appalachian practicality... - now, i don't measure anything, so nothing has a recipe here. - and neapolitan roots. - this my dad would call piselles; it's peas. ooh, making mama dance. [laughs] now, this is what i'm famous for in these parts.