Mr. President: Our lives are in your hands
Urgent letter from Bo Webb on Coal River 1
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Posted 2:35 PM on 20 Feb 2009
by Jeff Biggers -
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Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of The United States of Appalachia, and In the Sierra Madre. His next book, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, is forthcoming in January 2010 (The Nation/Basic Books). His website is: www.jeffbiggers.com
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Pompey Road Posted 9:26 am
20 Feb 2009
Family here since early 1800's, father died in coal mine accident.
20th Combat Engineers, "Land Clearing" 509th Heavy Maintanence Co. Vietnam
I thought I had seen destruction until I come home to by own valley. The is irrepairable
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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