Catherine Porter toured West Virginia and writes an astonishing article in the Star about mountaintop removal coal mining. It doesn’t take too many people to mine coal this way; in 1950 there were 120,000 coal miners and now there are only 21,000. So the miners aren’t working, they are watching, as the landscape changes around them. “We’re mountain people. You don’t understand our connection with the land,” says [former miner] Gibson, who traces his heritage back 120 years to this very spot. He had never ventured beyond the company store, halfway down the mountain, until he was 11. “We didn’t live on the land, we lived w…Keep reading
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