The 1990 Census indicated that the poverty rate in central rural Appalachia was 27 percent.

The state's rugged geography, coupled with the endemic poverty of rural Appalachia, has severely limited the ability of both local and state government to extend water lines.

Childbirth in rural Appalachia has long been a subject of concern.

For students, Marywood sponsors opportunities to participate in service projects, from rural Appalachia to poor communities in Ecuador and Peru.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, dozens of settlement schools and mission schools were established across rural Appalachia.

He is the director of the Craddock Center, a non-profit service group which operates in rural Appalachia.

A white applicant from rural Appalachia may contribute more to the student body than a nonwhite applicant from suburban Atlanta, the judges said.

"I recently toured rural Appalachia and saw 1,200 people lined up at a food-bank soup kitchen," he said.

In recent years, 50,000 blacks and 300,000 whites had arrived, mostly from rural Appalachia and the American South.

It is set in a traditional setting of rural Appalachia, away from the town's activity, where artisans create their craft each day, and they sell them too.