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...only hospital and the CSX railroad when the Black Fork River flooded in 1985. Another flood in early 1996 provided sufficient excuse for a shoe plant employing 135 to close down and move abroad. That makes a small charcoal plant with 150 workers the largest single employer in Tucker County, where many of the miners reside. Beyond that, most of the jobs are seasonal and part-time in ski resorts or fast-food joints that serve more than 2 million tourists who flock here annually...
...miners are scornful of that kind of work. "These are proud people, and they've been paid well," says Tucker County Commissioner Jerry DiBacco. "They really resent the prospect of having to slave away for tourists who still have good jobs." Until that day comes, miners can be found idling away the hours at the Italian Supper Club in the sleepy town of Thomas, nursing far-fetched hopes that better times will return, even if the mines...
Remus follows a legacy of Radcliffe Crew alumnae who went on to national prominence. Twin sisters Mary and Betsy McCagg (both '89), Lindsay H. Burns '87, and Cecile Ulrich Tucker '91 all competed last summer in Atlanta...
Readings followed from the Hebrew Bible, read in Hebrew by Ethan M. Tucker '97 and in English by Kevin C. Scott '97; the Hindu Vedas, sung in Sanskrit by Kanakalalshmi Pattabiraman '97 and read in translation by Christine M. Perez...
...chance would have it, Simon's parents, Dale and Jolene Tucker of Lewiston, Idaho, met an archaeologist at a dinner party. Privately thinking their son would find the reality of excavating to be, well, the pits, they asked her where Simon might be able to look in on a real dig. She told them about Passport in Time (PIT), a USDA Forest Service program established in 1988 that invites the public (at no cost except for providing your own food, camping gear and, at some locations, water) to join in excavations at its sites. Jolene took Simon on his first...