Ernie Mynatt grew up in the hills of Kentucky and moved to Cincinnati with the Appalachian migration in the ‘SO’s. To 600 teenagers, he was more or less officially Papa to his People in the city. He spent the next 30 years helping “hillbilly kids” learn how cope with urban life – street kids like Larry Reddin, who were essentially homeless at age eleven. “The way we were growing up, there was no vision of the future. Ernie gave us to way to see what might be.” Today, Larry helps run Ernie’s Urban Appalachian Council, which provides social services and cultural programs for 250,000 citizens of Appalachian descent. “With Ernie it wasn’t just a second chance,” Larry says, “For a lot us there was a third and fourth chance…he shepherded an entire generation into adulthood.”