Loading...
Flash Player 9 (or above) is needed to view slideshows. We have detected that you do not have it on your computer.To install it, go here
Slideshow Transcript
- Slide 1:Appalachia Culture Training Presented by Malcolm Lanham
- Slide 2:What is Appalachia?
- Slide 3: How to pronounce it Ap·pa·la·chi·an [àpp láychee n, àpp lách n] adjective Ap·pal·a·chi·ans [àpp láychee nz, àpp lách nz] Ap·pa·la·chi·a [àpp láychee , àpp lách] noun
- Slide 4: What is Appalachia? •A 200,000 sq. mile region •Includes parts of 12 states and all of West Virginia •23 million people live here •Divided into three sub- regions •Central region, where we minister is characterized by extreme poverty, coal mining and high illiteracy rates
- Slide 5:How did it all start? Pocahontas, VA & Pocahontas Coal
- Slide 6:Bramwell, WV Capital of the West Virginia coalfields and home to millionaires
- Slide 7:Bramwell, WV How to say it It is not Bram-well... It i

