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Winds of Change Newsletter, October 2009 See sidebar for table of contents
Lindytown - From Nice Little
Mountain Town to Virtual Ghost Town
Lindytown is in Boone County in southern WV, near other
places threatened by mountaintop removal mining, slurry injections and
coal sludge impoundments, which are familiar to Winds of Change
readers - Twilight, Bob White, Prenter, Marsh Fork ... the list gets
longer every month. OVEC volunteer organizer and board member Chuck
Nelson (white hat) and a reporter (back to camera) caught up with
Lindytown resident James Smith on his last day in the area.
Like Webb, Smith did not want to move, but the
approaching mountaintop removal mine, with its constant dust, blasting
and noise was driving him away.
Each month, there are more abandoned homes in Lindytown.
The one at left, ironically, has a large Friends of Coal sticker in the
front window, defaced by paintball vandalism.
Photos by Vivian Stockman
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