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Details: Moving Mountains 8.22.08 Photo by Donna Binder This week's road session: O beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties... Trailer Talk traveled to the coalfields of West Virginia this summer. I was invited by concerned citizen (hero) Larry Gibson to his home on Kayford Mountain which is about half an hour outside of Charleston. Where do I begin? I've been struggling with what I saw and with the painful conversations I had during this July 4th weekend event which brought together Larry's family in a yearly family reunion, concerned citizens, environmental advocates and activists who are all being impacted by the Mountaintop Removal Sites that surrounded us up on Kayford Mountain. During the Mountain Keepers Music Festival on the mountain I spoke to people for three days as they shared their complex struggles; economic, spiritual and physical with me. I'm putting together programs from these conversations that I'll be featuring in the coming months. Jen Osha is one of the many inspiring people that I met on the mountaintop so I'd like to share with you excerpts from a CD, Moving Mountains: Voices of Appalachia Rise Up Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining that she produced. Please check out the CD, the proceeds benefit local WV activism. Thanks to all the people of Kayford for their hospitality and their dedication! Special thanks to The Homestead School in Glen Spey, New York, for their generous support which made my trip to West Virginia possible.
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