I don't know of any "company store" although they were in existence many years ago.
I'm not sure what you mean by "own kind of people."
If you mean hard workers who care about faith and family and community, I might agree.
It gets old when outsiders continually portray WVians as dumb, barefoot hillbillies who don't know better, who are psychological misfits warped by years of inbreeding.:sleep:
Matt, I don't know that ANYBODY can explain Tiny Tim!
Shhhh. . .There's lots of theories, but I think he was
planted here as part of a government conspiracy. . .that or his mama dropped him down the mountainside too many times when he was little.