by Amanda Moore
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The Legend of Weepy Hollow
An excerpt from Missing Mountains, a new book about mountaintop-removal mining 10
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
Missing Mountains, Wind
Publications,
220 pgs., 2005.In August of 2002, Amanda Moore, a lawyer for the Appalachian Citizens Law Center, took on what she thought was a cut-and-dried legal matter for Granville Lee Burke, a resident of Chopping Branch Hollow in eastern Kentucky. Earlier that year, a flood that wreaked havoc throughout the hollow had severely damaged Burke's house and toolshed. Like almost everyone in the hollow, Burke blamed Premier Elkhorn Coal Company for the flood. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the company had conducted… Read More
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