Life and Death in Appalachia

Timothée Barrus
Nov 3 · 1 min read

Every fall, folks out here in the piney woods begin to take having firewood to make it through the winter seriously.

We start chopping. The chips do fly.

You chop it with an axe. Only rich people have chainsaws.

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