appalachia. you talk in the episode about how this is another group of black americans that are being cut off from their land, their culture and their history, but you ve met up with some people working to reclaim these connections. explain both ends of that to us. why are they being cut off, and what are they doing to try to preserve it? the stories we tell about appalachians in it country is same about black folks, white flax, a place who had a thriving industry through coal. that industry is not coal and there s not a new economy that has replace it had so in places like we were in lynch where you see what was there. there were houses all over these hills and this was cosmopolitan area and it s gone, and the young people born there don t really see the same reason to stay and as they leave they lose property and they lose stories. what was the most surprising thing for you about visiting appalachia and meeting the people there? i mean, i guess maybe this is a little personal