I just learned that Goodbye Wifes and Daughters is available on Kindle. This is very exciting to me, though I wish I could see it in its Kindleness. I might be forced to buy one. This link should bring you to the Kindle store, which I've also just discovered.
I love how Senator Byrd scolds Blankenship in this Senate hearing, though it's still not enough. He needs a time out in a locked corner.
http://wvgazette.com/News/201005200622
http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1362
West-Mountain - Best Regional Non-Fiction Gold: Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, by Susan Kushner Resnick (University of Nebraska Press) Silver (tie): Voices of the American West, by Corinne Platt and Meredith Ogilby (Fulcrum Publishing) and Theodore Roosevelt Hunter-Conservationist, by R.L. Wilson (Boone and Crockett Club) Bronze: Storm of the i: An Artobiography, by Tina Collen (Art Review Press)
West-Mountain - Best Regional Non-Fiction Gold: Goodbye Wifes and Daughters, by Susan Kushner Resnick (University of Nebraska Press) Silver (tie): Voices of the American West, by Corinne Platt and Meredith Ogilby (Fulcrum Publishing) and Theodore Roosevelt Hunter-Conservationist, by R.L. Wilson (Boone and Crockett Club) Bronze: Storm of the i: An Artobiography, by Tina Collen (Art Review Press)
It's ok that they misspelled my title and criticized my foreshadowing. I love this review simply because it exists!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR2010050702351.html
Let's hope and pray that this isn't just rhetoric once again.
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2010/04/25/president-obama-at-miner-memorial-how-can-we-let-anyone-in-this-country-put-their-lives-at-risk-by-simply-showing-up-to-work-by-simply-pursuing-the-american-dream/
3:30 on Monday, to honor the disaster of one week ago at that time. Personally, I think we should all shut off our electricity for half a day because half of it comes from coal. And coal miners.
Rest In Peace. 75 men from Montana will meet you in heaven.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/10/upper-big-branch-mine-res_n_532696.html#postComment
AOL's Steve Pendlebury interviewed me about how this week's tragedy echos the Smith Mine disaster of 1943. Here is the article.
My take on the latest disaster, from the Boston Globe.
I had hoped my book on the 1943 coal mine disaster that killed 75 (Goodbye Wifes and Daughters) would inspire people to do all they can to prevent disasters like the one that happened in West Virginia yesterday. 25 dead, so far. Three from one family. A mining company, Massey, with a history of safety violations. Lives are still cheaper than fixing whatever needs to be fixed. No one knows exactly what happened yet - or at least they aren't saying - but the fact that it happened at all is shameful. We know better....My prayers and tears go out to the families.
