VIDEO: Go Tell It on the Mountain
A Film by Rebecca MacNeiceLarry Gibson's family roots on West Virginia's Kayford Mountain go back to the 1700s. In 1906, after being swindled by a land company representing coal mine owners (as happened to countless other mountaineers), his family found itself with only 50 acres of its original 500. Now, Gibson hangs onto his mountain and observes family traditions, despite the disappearance of landscape all around him - the result of total environmental destruction caused by mountaintop removal mining. Keeping to family and Appalachian traditions of annually visiting the family graveyard, Gibson this year took other locals, environmental activists and journalists along with him.
Watch this film by Rebecca MacNeice here (TruthOut multi media).
posted by Annamarie at
1:56 AM
1 comment(s):
Wonderful and informative web site. I used information from that site its great. » »
By
Anonymous, at
12:20 PM
Post a comment
<< Home