RodeoMan wrote:
Thanks for posting this. There is a famous John Prine song called Paradise about the effects of strip mining in Kentucky. "Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county down by the Green River where Paradise lays, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, Mr Peabody's coal train has done hauled it all away">
I’m not sure this involved Kentucky. A lot of southern Indiana coal was used to generate electricity {before the rules were changed}. A coal strike shut down the entire region when I was in Grad School about forty years ago.