People, let me tell you, I've never seen the beat. Blue people! I've heard this story all my life growing up in Dwarf, so I thought I'd share the story and the link with you.
Once upon a time, far far away, deep in the mountains of Appalachia... So, this dude, Martin Fugate, has a recessive gene that if dominant would turn his skin blue, smurf him, essentially. He comes all the way from France to Ball Creek, Kentucky and marries a broad who also has this recessive smurf gene. With their genes combined, their offspring will be as blue as Captain Planet for years to come. Martin and ole gal breed, and because it's 1900 and they're in BFE Kentucky, their offspring inbreed. Ball Creek looked like Smurf Village. Gargamel showed up in the '60s to snatch up some smurfs (descendants of Martin and ole gal) for testing. He found out that their blue skin is due to the lack of the enzyme diaphorase...or something like that. So, since he figured out what the deal was, he found a cure, and gave the pills to the guinea pig smurfs. Magically, they turned pink. The smurfs take the dope Gargamel gives them, and stop inbreeding, and now people on Ball are a normal color...but they're still crazier than shithouse rats.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyperry3/Blue_Fugates_Troublesome_Creek.html
To further enlighten you on southeastern Ky...how Dwarf got its name:
The local post office was established on July 24, 1878 and named Tunnel Mill, for the tunnel which Sam and Felix Combs, using hand drills and gunpowder, had recently cut through 172 ft of solid rock for the purpose of carrying water to their mill. The post office closed in 1881 but was reestablished on July 13, 1883 as Dwarf, honoring the Combs brothers' brother Jeremiah, called "Short Jerry" for his stature.
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