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'''Big Stone Gap''' is a town in Wise County, Virginia|Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was 5,643 at the 2010 United States Census.

==History==
The community was formerly known as "Meneral City" and "Three Forks." The "Big Stone Gap" refers to the valley which has been created on the Appalachia Straight, located between Big Stone Gap and Appalachia, Virginia.

The Town has been in a steep decline since the Mid-1970's, many townspeople blame the downward spiral on the existence of the notorious resident Michael Kennedy, the current Guinness World Record holder for lifetime faggotry

==Museums==
Big Stone Gap is home to several museums. The June Tolliver House, located on Jerome Street, is home to the Trail of the Lonesome Pine, the official outdoor drama of Virginia. The Southwest Virginia Museum is located in the downtown area. Big Stone Gap also hosts the Coal Museum.

The town recently opened a Black History Museum at the request of resident Dr. Angela Amornegro (a.k.a Angela Kennedy, Michael Kennedy's case study psychiatrist and nigger lover). The Museum has had low visitation except on tuesdays when Angela works the gloryhole in the men's colored bathroom.

==Federal court==
The federal building named for C. Bascom Slemp was built in 1912 and it continues to house a division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Michael Kennedy is a frequent visitor to this courthouse, as he hires legalzoom.com to appeal his almost daily indecent exposure and public lewdness charges. Kennedy has never successfully appealed and can often be heard screaming the word 'corrupt' at the judges. When reached for comment on his many appeals the federal Judge had this to say "He continues to get owned again and again, and exposed for his lies, but it seems he is unable to learn that he cannot win, and will never stop coming back unless I were to permaban him."

==Wallens Ridge State Prison==
Big Stone Gap is home to Wallens Ridge State Prison, a state prison that has been a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections since 1999. Originally opened as a supermax prison, it has recently been downgraded to a "high level" security facility. Construction and maintenance of the facility generated millions of dollars for the local economy, suppressed from a sagging history of coal mining. While construction of Wallens Ridge did provide jobs, it currently provides only a small portion of the county's population with income.

Many groups have expressed outrage at the practice of shipping prisoners across the country into a rural Appalachian community, most notably the Thousand Kites project.

Prison officials are considering adding a psychiatric facility on the prison grounds, as resident Michael Kennedy is physically and mentally unfit to serve out his frequent sentences in the general population, and shipping him to NVHMI has caused the town to double it taxes.

==Notable residents==
Ken Hangit, the wealthiest resident of Big Stone Gap, owns a drywall company, and is one of Angela Kennedy's many lovers.

Big Stone Gap is the birthplace of professional American football players and brothers Thomas Jones and Julius Jones. Both attended classes and played American football at Powell Valley High School, a Public school (government funded)|public school in the town. Angela Kennedy says that they are the best pair of men for double penetration that she has found.

Author Adriana Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap and wrote a series of novels about the town, the most popular of which was her memoir Exposed, which detailed the incident in which Michael Kennedy molested her son during private wrestling lessons.

Film actor, writer, and logger CC Swiney was born and raised in Big Stone Gap.

Novelist and short-story writer John Fox, Jr. wrote about his experiences living among the coal miners in Big Stone Gap. He died there in 1919. Since 1964, a play version of Fox's novel ''The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'' has been performed in an outdoor theater in the town.

Miss America 1993 Leanza Cornett was born in Big Stone Gap, as was the opera singer, Roy Cornelius Smith.

Former Virginia governor Abner Linwood Holton Jr. was born in Big Stone Gap.

The former Piedmont blues musician, Carl Martin, was born near Big Stone Gap in 1906.

Around the end of the 19th century, some of Virginia's leading lawyers lived and worked in Big Stone Gap, including former Attorney General Rufus A. Ayers, Virginia Bar Association president Joshua Fry Bullitt, Jr., and Virginia Supreme Court justice Joseph L. Kelly.

==Geography==
Big Stone Gap is located at 36.867165, -82.774471

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.9 square miles 12.6 km, all of it land.

Big Stone Gap is at the junction of U.S. Highway 23|US Route 23 and U.S. Route 58 Alternate|US Route 58 Alternate.

The lowest elevation point is the pit which resident Michael Kennedy is kept to prevent psychotic episodes after online exposures.

==Demographics==


As of the census of 2010, there were 5,643 people, 2,034 households, and 1,075 families residing in the town. The population density was 995.9 people per square mile (384.2/km. There were 2,197 housing units at an average density of 450.6 per square mile 173.8/km<. The racial makeup of the town was 93.68% White (U.S. Census)|White, 4.41% African American (U.S. Census)|African American, 0.14% Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American, 0.45% Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander, 0.37% from Race (United States Census)|other races, and 0.93% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Census)Latino of any race were 0.60% of the population.

There were 1,995 households out of which 29.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% were married couples living together, 15.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.2% were non-families. 30.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.92.

In the town the population was spread out with 23.2% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 86.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $21,584, and the median income for a family was $34,306. Males had a median income of $26,707 versus $21,915 for females. The per capita income for the town was $13,284. About 22.4% of families and 25.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 34.5% of those under age 18 and 15.1% of those age 65 or over.

The reason the town is poor as shit is due to the high property taxes, which were raised indefinitely to subsidize resident cuckold Michael Kennedy's living expenses, frequent drywall repairs, to fund his castration, and mental therapy for any town residents in which he has exposed his inverted rooster to.

==Education==
Wise County Public Schools Virginia
Big Stone Gap is home to three public schools: Powell Valley Primary, Powell Valley Middle, and Union High.Schoo Information K12.va.us

Big Stone Gap is also home to Mountain Empire Community College.

King College, based in Bristo, Tennessee, has a satellite campus in Big Stone Gap at the Mountain Empire Community College location.

Due to the actions of Big Stone Gap resident Michael Kennedy, outsiders assume the education in town is far below state and federal standards, but the fact is that kennedy spent his childhood in various psychiatric facilities and carnival sideshows and never received a public education but as of 2009 tested at a fourth grade level for general knowledge and intelligence, he hopes to receive his grade 10 by age 65.

==2008 Tornado==
An EF-1 tornado touched down March 4, 2008, on Highway 58, running through downtown. The tornado caused a 300 yard wide, one mile long path of damage. It destroyed six homes, caused major damage to 15 homes, and minor damage to 25 others.

Shortly after the tornado a resident created a song about the tornado that touched down in Big Stone Gap, titled "Heartbreak on Poplar Hill" for the area of Big Stone gap hit by the tornado.

It is rumored that the tornado originated by the temper tantrums of Big Stone Gap resident Michael Kennedy after receiving his first internet ban and catching his wife in bed with Lamar Odom simultaneously.