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...hillbilly," Miller says with an Appalachian twang, "and I'm proud of that." The son and grandson of miners, he was born in the town of Leewood (pop. 250), in the Cabin Creek region southeast of Charleston, W. Va. After finishing a ninth-grade education ("It was all they had"), he went down into the mines at 16. He eagerly enlisted in the Army in World War II and fought in North Africa, Sicily and the Normandy invasion, where his face was horribly disfigured by machine-gun fire. Miller spent two years in military hospitals, enduring 19 operations...
...dramas we are trying to breathe life back into today. The testimony of these men and women is both invaluable and unique--a mountain of statistics and doctoral theses has no more legitimacy and is often far less enlightening than a single Dorothea Lange photograph of an Appalachian mother or a waitress musing into Studs Terkel's tape recorder about the joys of serving tables...
...chronic coal-mining wars. Early in September trouble erupted again. Pickets closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed out of their classrooms. What triggered the turmoil in West Virginia...
...long work days, he also received satisfaction from his many recreation activities. At the age of 71, Duncan constructed a 36-foot schooner for his personal use. His "Cruising Guide to the New England Coast" has become a bible for the New England seafarer. As a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Duncan was an avid climber, listing Mt. Katahdin in Maine and Ben Nevis, the highest peak in Britain, among those he conquered when he had passed...
...real find here is the ballet score Appalachian Spring, presented for the first time on disc in the version for 13 instruments (strings, woodwinds, piano) originally written for Martha Graham in 1944. Lighter and leaner than Copland's later scoring for full orchestra, this interpretation is an exquisite way to rehear - or meet - one of the homespun classics of 20th century American music...