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This is a meeting of the Brumley Gap Concerned Citizen's Association. Geographically Brumley Gap is a chip in the rim of a natural cup shaped by the South Virginia Hills. APCO is the Appalachian Power Company, which wants to put a 200-foot-high dam in the notch, turning the bowl into a reservoir for the largest pump-storage facility in the U.S. and putting the old homesteads of nearly all Brumley Gap's 119 families under water. The hope of finding Indian graves and getting the whole area protected from APCO by having it registered...
...Angel Band--Appalachian folk hymn singing for faculty, students and staff. Room 100. Schneider Center...
...Angel Band, Appalachian folk hymn singing for faculty, students and staff. Room 100, Schneider Center...
...country. His unusually sophisticated phrasing-now lagging behind the beat, now scooting ahead of it. twisting and rolling the melody like a champion lariat twirler-owes something to Frank Sinatra, one of his favorite singers. But his high, slightly nasal baritone retains an austere lyricism that goes back to Appalachian hills and hollows and beyond. Where much of commercial country music has only a catch in its throat, Willie's has a touch of iron in its soul...
...high-sulfur coal, say the companies, would necessitate installing expensive scrubbing devices. They rebelled at the cost; one utility reckoned that compliance with the EPA order could cause a 24% rise in electric rates. Instead, the companies said, they would import low-sulfur coal from Western or Appalachian states. That in turn riled the miners, who argue that if the utilities buy out-of-state coal, demand for Ohio coal will fall by as much as 30% and 12,500 people will be out of work...