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Category Archives: Books
An Excerpt from Damn Yankee Buttons, a book I am working on: ….my experience calls into question some of the fairly blatant generalizations you made back in 1994. Shortly into your observations about humans in the Appalachian Mountains, you grab … Continue reading
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Tagged fueds, hillbillies, incest, monshine, West Virginia
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Homeplace under siege
An excerpt from Damn Yankee Buttons: Essays and Short Stories, a book I am writing Our home place is now under siege by a blight on the land. Bull Creek is empty of people, hardwood trees, ginseng, yellow root, and most … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal Mining, Coal River, Mountain Top Removal Strip Mining
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Robert Byrd
An excerpt from Damn Yankee Buttons, A book of essays and short stories I am working on: Near the end of his life, after a political career of supporting the coal industry, Senator Robert Byrd expressed misgivings about mountain top … Continue reading
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Tagged Coal Mining, environment, EPA, Mountaintop Removal, Robert C. Byrd
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Some Favorite Quotes
A Few of My Favorite Quotes “They put their hand to the flinty rock, and overturn mountains by the roots. They cut out channels in the rocks, and their eyes see every precious thing. The sources of the rivers they … Continue reading
I Am Reading
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin–easy to read, no kidding. The Olcott Correspondent by Jim Ryan. Jim is my barber in Alum Creek, West Virginia Just finished reading The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change and Basketball’s … Continue reading
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Tagged basketball, Black Colleges, Darwin, Mountaintop Removal, Peace Corps, science, Sports, West Virginia
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