In many towns there seems to exist and "underground-society" who conducts black-market transactions of some sort, enabling those folks who live within those boundaries of everyday existence a way to earn a living. In the Southern Appalachian Mountains there exists a cosmopolitan-center of county government and cultural activity that actually does have an existing underground area. In the mid-1920's, Mountain City outgrew its defined skyline allowing the city to make way for newer urban development and expansion. Again, in the late 1960's, there was another building-renaissance of sort. In the process of this urbanization redevelopment a number of people who resided in the affected area were displaced. After their eviction, a small group of those people who had no place to go, chose.as their refuge, the uninhabited area beneath the city which had been simply built-over with each "building -boom". This group of people, whom I refer to as shadow-people, exist in an impoverished environment in relative obscurity.

The shadow-people keep a watchful-eye out for their neighbors who live above ground. My name is Will Reed, and I am fortunate to be one of those whom the shadow-people keep within their sight.