Hillbilly Rising
Language: English
Published by Way Opens Press, 2024
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In 2017, I read JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and was "energized" in my blood, bones and DNA. I started writing and could not stop until I finished Hillbilly Rising. When JD became VP candidate, I knew HR's moment had come. HR joins the many Appalachian voices saying it is time for Appalachia to rise, not die. In this memoir, another family rises above hard times. The strengths of Appalachian people are unparalleled anywhere in the USA. Let's find our common ground; let go of the strife, let go of the lament to the dead, let go of limiting stereotypes, look to the Cosmos, see the smallness of all humans, and the preciousness of all Life, let's inspire the "hillbillies" to rise, Hillbillies Rising again, together.
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- Title
- Hillbilly Rising
- Author
- Jennifer Elam
- Publisher
- Way Opens Press
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 097165252X
- ISBN 13
- 9780971652521
"Hillbilly Rising" is primarily a memoir of my life rising after being called "hillbilly" in the worst sense of the word. Not being able to make a living on the farms where we lived in Ky, my family left on the "hillbilly highway" to move to a working-class town, Carpentersville Ill, so that my parents could work in factories. They saved enough money to buy a home and then came back to KY.
My dad always told the story about me as an 8-year-old working in the tobacco patch, one day raising my arms to the heavens and saying, "God, I don't know what it is, but I want to go to college." With a lot of support and very hard work, my prayers were answered.
Appalachia is not dead or dying so an elegy is not needed, JD. Appalachia is rising! We rise together to co-create; I grew up hearing we must pray hard, work hard, and play hard.
Now, the planet is faced with new challenges, threats to our existence. The time has come to have a bigger vision than our identities that divide us. The Kosmos (with a K to indicate both the scientific cosmos and the spiritual working together) is calling us to seek the energy of Co-Creation and Re-Birth, dancing beyond the divisions and polarization. My daddy always said, "An enemy is someone you don't know well enough yet" and "What does comfort have to do with real life?" The time is now to hear God, Spirit, the Collective or whatever word you use for God of the Kosmos asking us to both see how small each of us is and to value the preciousness of human life, beyond wars about our very small identities.
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