Interviewing with Mrs. Joe Gaynell Begley while Studs was in Blackey, Kentucky.

Blackey, Kentucky resident, Joe Begley, is all for deep mining and totally against strip mining. Rattlesnakes, explained Begley, are those individuals who come in from other states to destroy the land with their strip mining. Begley also talks about the poor and illiterate of Appalachia, some of whom will get Black lung disease from the coal mines.

Interviewing with Joe and Susie Haynes while Studs was in Blackey, Kentucky.