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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Aug 6, 2008
Description: One sees a good many old strip mines among the Appalachians of Virginia and West Virginia.
Date Taken: Aug 6, 2008
Place Taken: West Virginia
Owner: Don Maxwell
File Name: StripMine_0825.jpg   - Photo HTML
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Don Maxwell - Aug 17,2008   Viewers  | Reply
    Someone objected to this photo and to the comments about it . I've deleted the comments, including my original description, but believe that the photo itself is innocuous. It merely shows one of the many old strip mines that one sees in crossing the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. Whether one likes or dislikes the view is personal preference. I'm sorry that the original comments were objectionable to anyone.     
  
John Robert Dunlop - Aug 17,2008   Viewers  | Reply
    Funny, nobody said anything about the strip mine photo I posted (on the way to Oshkosh.)<br />You are just too controversial a redneck Don!     
  
Don Maxwell - Aug 17,2008   Viewers  | Reply
    Well, John, the responses posted were political in nature and somewhat abusive, and they had nothing to do with seaplanes, so I agree with the member who objected that they were unnecessary on this site.<br /><br />Nevertheless, the landscape IS the message, and strip mines are in Appalachia and are hard to ignore from the air, especially on a clear day. Deep pit mining, of course, has been a fact of life in Appalachia for a longer time, and some might say that it has had a much more profound effect upon the people there, if not upon the landscape. I had many students in Virginia whose families included men whose lungs were clotted with coal dust and who might have sung with Tennessee Ernie Ford, 'I owe my soul to the company store.'<br /><br />Whether that was necessary for progress or a necessary evil is, of course, personal opinion, and I wouldn't presume to tell anyone what to think about it. Certainly, there are at least two sides to this, as most issues and conditions of life. That's made clear in a song written in 1931 by a miner's wife, Florence Reese: 'Which Side Are You On?' One might learn more about it at these links:<br /><br />Smithsonian Institution:<br /><a href="http://www.folkways.si.edu/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=46236">http://www.folkways.si.edu/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=46236</a><br /><br />Wikipedia:<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_Side_Are_You_On%3F">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_Side_Are_You_On%3F</a><br /><br />Union perspective:<br /><a href="http://labornotes.org/node/1385">http://labornotes.org/node/1385</a><br /><br />Seeger recording:<br /><a href="http://www.rhapsody.com/peteseeger/greatesthits/whichsideareyouon/lyrics.html">http://www.rhapsody.com/peteseeger/greatesthits/whichsideare<br>youon/lyrics.html</a><br /><br /><br />It's not well known that about 90 years ago, a large portion of West Virginia was taken over by dissident miners who objected to what they claimed was the state and federal governments' collusion with mine owners.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Coal_Wars">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Coal_Wars</a><br /><br /><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05E5DB1138EE32A25752C3A9669D946896D6CF">http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05E5DB11<br>38EE32A25752C3A9669D946896D6CF</a><br /><br /><br />John Sayles made a film about it: 'Matewan.'<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lovefilm.com/product/detail.html?product_id=4077&auto_show_trailer=1&show_trailer=1">http://www.lovefilm.com/product/detail.html?product_id=4077&<br>auto_show_trailer=1&show_trailer=1</a><br /><br /><a href="http://movies.tvguide.com/matewan/review/105821">http://movies.tvguide.com/matewan/review/105821</a><br /><br /><br />What? This has nothing to do with splashing and dashing? I don't know why not. After all, I have splashed my SeaRey more than once in waterways in the Appalachians of West Virginia and Virginia. And you can't get there from here without flying over strip mines. As I said before, the landscape is the message.     
  
John Robert Dunlop - Aug 17,2008   Viewers  | Reply
    If you want an excellent history lesson just come to S&amp;D!     
  
Dan Nickens - Aug 17,2008   Viewers  | Reply
    Good stuff, Don. A little controversy between labor and union factions can obviously get seriously dashing! A neighbor of mine worked in the Kentucky coal mines. He now has inoperable cancer as a result. He was given six months to live three years ago. I'd say he's a pretty tough hombre.     
  
Dave Edward - Aug 18,2008   Viewers  | Reply
    Your original post was right on the mark Don. Lynn and I saw/listened to Pete Seeger last month here in Kingston.( Not Bob Seeger for you younger folk). He is 88 and still going strong and sang a couple of the old union songs from the 30's and 40's. Guys like him are few and far between and make sure the truth comes out and raises our awareness of so many social injustices. Even the McCarthy inquisition couldn't stop him. His clean up of the Hudson River is just one of his many efforts.     
  
Rick Oreair - Aug 18,2008   Viewers  | Reply
    Hey, in Florida strip mines simply become waterfront property for the yankee's moving down here. Several mines (now lakes) in SW and mid Florida have been developed, and advertised as prime waterfront properties. People wonder where the square lakes come from. !!     


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