Secret Histories | Builder Levy: Appalachia USA

Builder Levy. The Church Family, Thacker Mines, Mingo County, West Virginia, 1970. Gold-toned gelatin silver print.

Appalachia that stretches across the eastern United States, running from New York down to northern Mississippi. The former hunting grounds of the Cherokee and other indigenous groups, Appalachia became home to colonists seeking to escape oppressive British…