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Perfect day for a swim! This is a picture I took along the Tygart River in Barbour County. Click it to see the photo in all of it's fabulous panoramic glory.
The water was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. I hated to get out! Happy Memorial Day weekend!
A sign in the Centre Market, Wheeling, WV
Ad in Grafton, West Virginia. One of my favorites!
Wheeling, West Virginia
Ironically, I believe it did actually catch on fire on one point and is now out of use.
Wheeling, West Virginia
Here's a fabulous website that lists many of the state's best swimming holes. I can't wait!
Neat little article about historic preservation in Thomas, West Virginia.
our cabin. my favorite place in the whole world and my home sweet home!
Good morning Appalachia (Taken with instagram)
"Hollow is an interactive documentary and community participatory project that focuses on the lives of residents in McDowell County, West Virginia. Hollow combines personal portraits, interactive data, maps and user-generated content on an HTML5 website designed to address the issues stemming from stereotyping and population loss in rural America. Community members will take part in the filmmaking process by creating their own documentary portraits. Hollow strives to bring attention to issues in rural America, encourage trust among the community and become a place where users can have a voice and share ideas for the future."
Jackie Browning, 56, Horse Creek, W.Va. Browning was poisoned by chemicals used at a coal preparation plant. “I thought I was going to lose my mind. I tingled from my groin to my feet, my mouth burned — I felt like I ate a hot coal. I had diarrhea for four years and a severe sore throat for seven months.” Browning claims that a Massey representative monitored his medical examination. “Massey is rock bottom. They’re cruel people.”
May 2005
A massive dragline, dwarfed by the huge scale of the operation, at work
on a mountaintop removal operation near Kayford Mountain, W.Va
Photo by Vivian Stockman, Oct. 19, 2003
In the 1999-2000 election cycle, the coal mining industry contributed more than $3.6 million to federal parties and candidates.
West Virginia has 4 percent of the coal in the world. The U.S. has 21.1 percent of the world total.
The U.S. is responsible for 22.3 percent of the world's coal-related carbon emissions.
52 percent of U.S. energy is powered by coal.
Over 1000 miles of streams have been buried by strip mine waste in Appalachia.
In 2000, almost 170 million tons of coal were mined in West Virginia, with 60 million tons coming from strip mines.
In 1950, West Virginia employed 143,000 miners. By 1997, that number was down to 22,000. (The largest employer in West Virginia is currently Walmart)
75 percent of West Virginia's streams and rivers are polluted by mining and other industries.
300,000 acres of hardwood forest in West Virginia have been destroyed by mountaintop removal mining.
St. Louis-based Arch Coal is the nation's second-largest coal producer and accounts for about 6 percent of U.S. energy.
In 2001, Arch Coal reported revenues of nearly $1.5 billion.
Hiram Lilly, 84, Stands on the Porch of His Daughter's Home in Fireco, near Beckley, West Virginia. The Retired Miner Lives with Her Fireco Was Once a Great Mining Town, But the Region Has Been Mined Out 05/1974
Harry Schaefer
Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant loom over a home located across the Kanawha River, near Poca, West Virginia, in August of 1973. (Harry Schaefer/NARA)
Fall color along the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River, located in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia near the town of Petersburg.
© Bill Dickinson
