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See how two missionaries helped change life on Stinking Creek, a small Appalachian mountain community in eastern Kentucky. Over the past 50 years, a nurse midwife and a school teacher brought health care, education, birth control and loving aid to poor people there. Garrett Hubbard/USA TODAY

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  • who were these men ? in 80`s ? an why did they want to burn them out? and seeing pictures of fire and brnt place? I gues they burn something? whaat?

  • She didn't just midwife for povished families. My mom had 3 children in the hospital, then Peggy delivered me and my sister. She had easy pregnancies, so she wanted to try a midwife. Whoever said this was Tennessee was wrong.

  • People lived like that 40yrs. ago, they still live like that on our Indian reservations! It is a disgrace!

  • @olobertini this is Kentucky. There is a stinking creek Ky, This is where my family was from. There is also a stinking creek, Tn.

  • America watched the anti-American left oppose the Iraq War as a war without end, an un-winnable war that is too expensive. well? $17 trillion of money looted from the American taxpayer and not only is poverty not gone, it has worsened and American families are decimated by the dependency and the pimp mentality of Washington. Why do Democrats support the open-ended, un-winnable war on poverty with tax dollars but opposes removing anti-American dictators? Don't "Progressives" believe in facts?

  • @olobertini This is in Kentucky, this place is about 4 miles from my house . I beleave I know what state I live in!

  • When we see our government give millions of dollars to other countries and our own country is poor and fighting to make it, it makw you wonder.

  • The most unfortunate part of this whole thing...is that it is in Tennessee...not Kentucky.

  • @trisgilmour my family is from there. the story is....the indians would skin animals in the creek and the rotting flesh made the creek stink. I doubt that story. You'd think the indians would be smart enough not to contaminate the creek.

    I suspect the high sulpher may have been the reason. It makes the water taste and smell bad.

  • WHY STINKING CREEK?

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