ABC 13 - Top Stories: "An elderly woman who went missing in Haywood County has been found dead.
83 year old Willa Mae Trull was last seen Tuesday around 3:00 p.m. outside her home in the Saunook community..."
Willa Mae was a relation and one of the leaders in the fight to get the Road To Nowhere Built. She, and other members of her organization, published a newsletter and led the fight to get the road built, and from her I learned just how low on the totem pole "hillbillies" actually are. Someone in her group had retrieved several documents from Washington under the Freedom of Information Act that stated, in essence, that the residents of Appalachia were "marginal people" and no one in the "real United States" cared what happened to them so the Federals could come in and play the patriot card and confiscate their land for a pittance of what it was actually worth. And they did, with the promise they would build a road which would bring an economic boom to the area. They built enough of the road to finish Fontana Dam and the land acquisition, then quit.
Of course, we hillbillies have no reason to question people from Washington (or Raleigh) when they arrive and say "We're here to help."
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