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Letter From Appalachia: Home, Sweet Home

Coal miner. What’s that bring to mind? Someone dumb and dirty? I used to think so, and I’m born, raised, and living smack in the middle of Virginia’s Appalachian coalfields. Well, actually not the middle. More like the fringe. Virginia has 95 counties but only seven that are coal-producing, and all seven are in the...