this is what i would also believe. like some county seat in a county time forgot that is down 50% in population from 1970s numbers, where the land plats got damaged in some floods and nobody wants to fuck with the logging company's lease claims since the mines are all busted. and then there's this very extended, multi-generational family on 30 acres with their own water source at the top of the watershed in the back of a box canyon/hollow/"holler" in cobbled homes, shanties and trailers. maybe the patriarch has a nice old home. maybe they're tapped into some old mine's electricity.
[as a side note, i've seen really old, played out mines that were abandoned that still have to have electricity to run huge fans to keep coal dust and gas from pooling up and exploding / starting a fire underground. so sure, why not.]
back to the family. they were on the side of the strike breakers in the 30s and the 70s, so the sheriff and half the deputies have the same last name. and somebody's somebody is married to somebody connected to the closest state police barracks. maybe even a note in a safe at the governor's mansion that says "leave [x] alone." just enough rumor that nobody knows who to blab to.
they're doin' the dirt with pills and crank and whatever the fuck they want. there are rumors of exotic endangered animal breeding. all the county magistrates, the judge executive, the superintendent, the principle, and county positions go to the family and nobody makes a stink unless they want lose what little they have.
this is what i would also believe. like some county seat in a county time forgot that is down 50% in population from 1970s numbers, where the land plats got damaged in some floods and nobody wants to fuck with the logging company's lease claims since the mines are all busted. and then there's this very extended, multi-generational family on 30 acres with their own water source at the top of the watershed in the back of a box canyon/hollow/"holler" in cobbled homes, shanties and trailers. maybe the patriarch has a nice old home. maybe they're tapped into some old mine's electricity.
[as a side note, i've seen really old, played out mines that were abandoned that still have to have electricity to run huge fans to keep coal dust and gas from pooling up and exploding / starting a fire underground. so sure, why not.]
back to the family. they were on the side of the strike breakers in the 30s and the 70s, so the sheriff and half the deputies have the same last name. and somebody's somebody is married to somebody connected to the closest state police barracks. maybe even a note in a safe at the governor's mansion that says "leave [x] alone." just enough rumor that nobody knows who to blab to.
they're doin' the dirt with pills and crank and whatever the fuck they want. there are rumors of exotic endangered animal breeding. all the county magistrates, the judge executive, the superintendent, the principle, and county positions go to the family and nobody makes a stink unless they want lose what little they have.
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