Twilight

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: Twilight and Lindytown are in close proximity along County Highway 26 in Boone County. A coal company’s “ponds,” visible here, are also visible as you drive along the road between the two communities.

: Residents believe longwall mining drained the water from a stream that runs along the road…well now, it’s usually just rocks where a stream once ran.

: Deep coal mining has long gone on in the area, but mountaintop removal coal mining has been coming closer and closer.

: Even from the road now, more and more mountaintop removal is visible.

: But from the air, the extent of the mining is of course easier to see, although the effects of the blasting are sadly far too noticeable on the ground.

: The coal companies have made offers to buy out homes repeatedly. People who have lived in, lived off and loved this land — and whose ancestors for generations have done the same — do not want to leave, do not want to see their heritage destroyed.