"I'm From West Virginia and I've Got Something to Say About the Chemical Spill"

[kentuck]

27. Reminds me of when I was a young child in SouthEast Kentucky...

And we lived a long ways up in the "holler".

But down at the mouth of the hollow, there was a long mound of dirt, like a small hill, and there were "coke ovens" on each side. They were open-faced and the bricks were still in place.

They were left over from the turn of the last century, when the British were exploiting our part of the country for coal and resources.

So we have put up with this exploitation for a very long time. It never seems to change.

It's like you keep digging that hole in the side of the mountain and, after a while, it is so deep that you are never able to get out of it...