Yeah, I have fun answering that one too. Lived in Louisville half my life now but I most certainly am not from here. The flip side of that is most people at least have heard of Louisville but nobody's ever heard of my holler. Was born further east in Pikeville but my parents moved right after I was born so it's always been kind of fuzzy.
Christian missionaries, eh? Goddamn. That had to be a lot of things and most of them less than enjoyable. If you don't mind my asking, what flavor or Christian? Between the ones coming in to save us poor Appalachians and the ones heading out to save some other poor people, I ended up with what might be charitably described as a severe distaste for missionaries, can't imagine what it'd be like growing up on the other side of that.
On a totally unrelated note, you ever make it down/over to Ludlow?
RE: Where are you from?