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In Hazard, there is a house built in the shape of a goose. This is important only to persons who consider it vital to know Butterfly McQueen's birthplace or the name of Tonto's, which had published a photograph of the peculiar dwelling. I had not been the same since seeing it. Further, in my advertising days, I had tried unsuccessfully to star the goose in a campaign for Lysol Deodorizing Cleaner . All this made the goose a must-see tourist attraction.
We moved south and east from Akron into the hard-scrabble mountains of eastern Kentucky, a province of lean-necked men and women who work harder for their daily bread than just about any other people you'll ever encounter. It is harsh, humorless land with a physical beauty scarred by an overlay of poverty.
The winding mountain roads of Kentucky are wonderful unless you get behind someone from Indiana. It's not for nothing that Indiana license plates have the word "Wander" on them: it indicates what the driver's mind is doing. "When you get behind a car with Indiana plates and more than three AAA renewal stickers, you might as well stop for coffee," said Arutunoff as he fumed along in a Wanderer-induced parade.
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