We’ve just begun reading Ramp Hollow, The Ordeal of Appalachia, by Steven Stoll. Read on for an excerpt courtesy of the author and publisher. West Virginia has been beaten up, used and abused by rapacious mining corporations and their public servants, at the expense of its land and people, for the entirety of its existence.…
The daily reality of living in an extraction economy.
From Downstream, Fall 2015, the newsletter of the Friends of the Lower Greenbrier River. by Ben Luckett, Friends of the Lower Greenbrier River Board Member As we reported in our last newsletter, FOLGR and many other groups around the state continue to oppose the two 42-inch pipelines that are proposed to carry fracked gas from…
Published on Monday, September 07, 2015 by Common Dreams It’s the Surreal Thing Why should the country’s most obese state help Coca-Cola peddle obesity? by Russell Mokhiber We’re number one. In obesity. West Virginia is in a dead heat (emphasis on dead) with Mississippi. That’s according to the most recent ranking (2013) from the Trust for America’s Health —…
Charleston Gazette’s Caitlin Cook gets a great two-minute interview with a very knowledgeable farmer, Clark Sheldon of Putnam County, West Virginia.
Very glad to see the hemp revolution spreading so far and so fast.
Read Cook’s piece in the West Virginia Gazette that this video accompanied.
Oct. 13, 1921. Charleston, West Virginia: Some of the “Caesar Gang” boys demonstrating how to cull chickens to improve quality and quantity of product. Under direction of J. A. Wolfram, County Agent, Webster Co. W. Va. State 4 H Fair. From the National Child Labor Committee Collection (NCLC) of the Library of Congress. Working as…
