What an article, Evelyn. I believe Gail said it best when she stated we were colonized by the coal barons. As is true with so many, my gg grandmother Almira Jarrell Mullins sold mineral rights to her property in the 1880s for a few hundred dollars. That was a fortune to her. Little did she or any of them know what would happen. Almira was born and raised in the area up Pond Fork where the pictures were taken in Gracie's post. Then she married Andrew Jackson Mullins and came to Blair, a community that has been devastated by MTR in the past decade. The coal companies have no regard for "southern hillbillies". Our lifestyle, culture, family ties, history - all meaningless to them. Rick > > From: "Evelyn Sukey" <elsukey@glwb.net> > Date: 2006/05/16 Tue PM 02:10:15 EDT > To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVLOGAN] RE: mountain top removal(OTS) > > Gracie, > > Thanks for sharing the sites. I found this one very interesting: > > http://magazine.audubon.org/incite/incite0105.html > > Brings tears to my eyes when I think of the destruction. > > Evelyn Wilburn Sukey