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Coal mines and mining Environmental aspects West Virginia Coal mines and mining West Virginia Hickam, Homer H 1943- Childhood and youth Hickam, Homer H 1943- Homes and haunts West Virginia Mountaintop removal mining Economic aspects West Virginia Mountaintop removal mining Environmental aspects West Virginia Novelists, American 20th century Biography West Virginia Social life and customsShnayerson, Michael.
Summary: One of America's most dramatic environmental battles is unfolding in southern West Virginia. Coal companies are decapitating the mountains. The forested ridge tops and valley streams of Appalachia--one of the country's natural treasures--are being destroyed, along with towns and communities. An entire culture is disappearing, and most Americans have no idea it's happening. Journalist Shnayerson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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Summary: In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001