1989
Pittston Miners, Striking, 1989, St. Paul
Pittston Miners, Striking, St. Paul
Pittston Miners, Striking, St. Paul
Pittston Miners, Striking/Praying, St. Paul
Renatta Kincaid, Sawmill Hollow, Dante
Earl and Elonore Kincaid, Sawmill Hollow
Sawmill Hollow, Dante
Miss Willie Yancy, Sawmill Hollow, Dante
'Tucker' Tom Taylor, Retired Miner with black lung disease, Sawmill Hollow, Dante
Earl and Elonore Kincaid, Sawmill Hollow, Dante
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Sawmill Hollow, Dante, January 2014 (original coal company house)
James Mabry, retired miner, Sawmill Hollow, Dante
Kayne, Lillie and James grandson, Maybry home, Sawmill Hollow, Dante
Lillie Mabry, Sawmill Hollow, Dante
Dante
Dante was once the headquarters of the Clinchfield Coal Corporation
Dante Museum
Saw Mill Hollow, Dante
Renatta Kincaid greets neighbors in Sawmill Hollow. Renata moved off the Hollow over 20 years ago and married Jim Blevins and lives in near by Castlewood
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Coretta, Saw Mill Holler, Dante
Lillie Mabry
James Mabry planting gardens where houses used to be in his vanishing community, Dante.
MTR is a radically destructive form of surface mining. Coal companies bulldoze the forest on top of a mountain, decapitate the peaks with explosives, shove the shattered rubble into adjacent valleys and destroy the head- water streams and communities. It takes as few as 12 men to destroy a mountain.
Kayford Mountain, Cabin Creek, WV. has largely been destroyed by MTR - 7,500 acres of what used to be a forested and towering mountain range. The blue/green color in the foreground is hydro seed, a chemical that is used to replace the pre-exiting topsoil.
Contaminated water samples
Slurry Impoundment (After the coal is washed what is left is a slurry of contamination). These dams have broken with disasterous consequences on communities below.
Family Cemeteries on top of MTR sites. Families can not go to their relative's graves without special permission from the coal companies and a police escort.
Twisted Gun Golf Course, Wharncliff, West Virginia. This course was built on an MTR site. This is what reclamation looks like. (visit: Ohvec.org)
MTR protestor, Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.
Kathy Selvage, Southern Appalachian Stewards, Wise County, SW VA.
Marie House, Miner, Activist for miner's rights, St Paul, SW VA.
Maria Gunnoe, Activist, Environmentalist, Bob White, West Virginia.
Jena Patton, Clinchco, SW VA. Jena and her family mortgaged their house a number of times during the strike to pay the bail fees for miners who were arrested during the protests. She also housed and fed their children.
Larry Gibson Jr (fighting to stop MTR on Kayford Mountain. The land has been in the Gibson family for 220 years). Standing by his father's grave, Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.
Susan Lapis, flies activists, journalists, conservationists, students (etc) over MTR sites in Virginia and West Virginia. (see www.southwings.org)
Paul Corbit Brown, photgrapher, activist, Fayette County, West Virginia.
Frieda Williams, Activist, Spokesperson, Whitesville, West Virginia.
St Paul
Appalachia
Bruce Burke, miner, St Paul
Renatta Kincaid visits with Otis (retired miner) Castelwood
Mabry Home, Saw Mill Holler, Dante
Members of the Democratic Party
Jim and Renatta Levins voting
Kathy Selvage voting
Lillie Mabry
Dante Polling Station
El Pelanque, Route 58, Castlewood
Helen Lewis (social justice advocate, developed the first academic programs for Appalachian Studies) with activist, Monica Appleby, residents at ElderSpirit Community in Abingdon, Va watching the election results.
Tammy, Dante
St Paul
Castlewood High School Polling Station
Dante
Dante Polling Station
Route 63
Kathy Selvage, Wise
Appalachia Polling Station
Castlewood High School Polling Station
Castlewood High School Polling Station
Kathy Selvage, Wise
Wise Polling Station
El Pelanque, Route 58, Castlewood
Blevins House, Castlewood
Lillie Mabry, Dante
Monica Appleby, Abingdon After Trump's reelection