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The Legend of Weepy Hollow
An excerpt from Missing Mountains, a new book about mountaintop-removal mining |
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16 Feb 2006 |
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| 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 ... |
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| Topics: books, coal, energy, environmental justice, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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