But the decade of the 70s brought VISTA workers and a variety of social welfare programs to the hills, opening a door to the world and bringing the world to Appalachian doorsteps.
Riots and demonstrations and parading 'flower children' were seen only on the six o'clock news. As far as mountain people were concerned, the much-talked-about '60s' happened primarily on television. Fawcett herself grew up in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, though she now lives in McLean, a suburb of Washington DC and certainly, she has seen the world: she writes often about her travels in Mexico and elsewhere on her blog, Kite Dreams.Ībout Appalachia, and her novel, which is set in 1975, Fawcett notess, "In the early 1960s this region was still one of the most isolated areas in the country. Guest-blogging today is Katie Pickard Fawcett, author of the just-published novel for young readers (ages 9 - 12), To Come and Go Like Magic, about 12 year-old Chili Mahoney, who feels cramped in her small Appalachian town and yearns to see the world.
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