Arson fires in Hinton, West Virginia.

We take off for Main Street Hinton, WV.  Kara used to work around Hinton for the Appalachian Service Project building and fixing homes.  Main Street in Hinton is supposedly a place where there are drugs and prostitutes.  Hinton has had a series of arsons lately.  “Hinton Burning!” reads the the front page of the town’s newspaper.  The locals think otherwise, “It’s meth labs.”

The hills here in Hinton are intense, and it feels like the car is going to flip over.  Main Street isn’t where the arsons have been taking place. It also isn’t the place where there are drugs and prostitutes.  It’s just a residential street over by the New River.

A house on Main Street in Hinton, West Virginia.

An anti-smoking mural on Main Street in Hinton, West Virginia.

The corner of Main and Union streets in Hinton, West Virginia.