by Antrim Caskey
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We Live It Every Day
The faces and voices of West Virginians battered by mountaintop removal 0
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago These photographs were originally published in Orion Magazine.In May 2005, photographer Antrim Caskey encountered Maria Gunnoe in Manhattan. Gunnoe had come to protest the practice of mountaintop-removal mining at a Massey Energy shareholders meeting. Two days later, Caskey left for the Cumberland Plateau, where she made these images. "People are scared," Caskey says. "I'd be scared, too."
Maria Gunnoe, 37, Bob White, W.Va. "With mountaintop removal, the species we are losing is the human species -- just because we're hillbillies. Hillbillies are the last people you can make fun of --… Read More
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