Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
House, Silas
Howard, Jason
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BOOK SUMMARY
Oral histories on mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of coal mining.
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Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating form of coal mining. Taken together, these voices stand as a testament of what it means to be an Appalachian and the value of preserving a culture's history and spirit through the stories of its people.
The authors have chosen twelve unique voices including Jean Ritchie, the "mother of folk " who doesn't let her eighty-six years slow down her fighting spirit; Judy Bonds, a tough talking coal-miner's daughter; Kathy Mattea, the beloved country singer who believes that cooperation is the key to the battle; Larry Bush, who doesn't back down even when speeding coal trucks are used to intimidate him; and Denise Giardina, the West Virginia writer who ran for governor to bring attention to the mountaintop removal issue. Written and edited by native sons of the mountains, these riveting, personal stories are captured here in this original and highly readable book.
AUTHOR BIO
Silas House is the author of the novels Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, and the play The Hunting Part. His writing has been featured in such publications as Newsday and The Oxford American.
Jason Howard is a writer whose works have appeared in Equal Justice Magazine, Paste, Kentucky Living, The Louisville ReviewΒΈ and many other publications.
BOOK REVIEWS
"This revelatory work is a challenging tocsin shouting out the effects of poverty and exploitations of the Appalachian people by strip miners and other corporate pirates. I am reminded of the fighting spirit of the Eastern Kentuckians when I visited these embattled pioneers in their hills and hollers. Here, Jean Ritchie and others speak out in the fighting tradition of the 1930s and 1960s. It is oral history at its best."
-Studs Terkel
"Something's Rising will be an inspiration for younger activists and should galvanize people to defend our mountains. The book provides a complete primer on mountaintop removal, then goes beyond that: it thoroughly humanizes an environmental catastrophe."
-Ann Pancake, author of Strange as This Weather Has Been
"Something's Rising is the testimony of two sons of the Kentucky coal country, novelist Silas House and activist Jason Howard, who have placed themselves at the center of a grassroots movement to fight mountaintop removal and the hegemony of the coal barons."
-Hal Crowther, author of Gather at the River and Cathedrals of Kudzu.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0813125464
ISBN(13-digit): 9780813125466
Dewey Decimal: 338.2/7240974
Library of Congress: 2008049846
Book Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 312
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