35th Anniversary 2/26/07
Buffalo Creek
Remembered: Survivor recalls horrifying moments, haunting memories
(Charleston
Gazette, 2/27/07)
Documenting
Fatal Disaster: Santa Clarita man to tell of 1972 coal dam collapse
(LA Daily
News, 2/25/07)
The Disaster Too Sad to be a Movie (Hollywood that is)
Opinion by Dave Peyton (Charleston
Daily Mail, 2/23/07)
Death, Destruction
of Flood Still Vivid (Huntington Herald-Dispatch,
2/24/07)
Feds Find Hundreds of Unsafe Mine Seals
(Charleston Gazette,
2/25/07)
See what mountaintop
removal mining is doing to the Appalachian Mtns at www.ilovemountains.org.
The "National Memorial to the Mountains" uses Google Earth maps
to reveal clear views of sludge ponds, blasting holes, & mountains scraped
of their peaks.
Our Future In Retrospect?:
Coal Miner Health in Appalachia exhibits the 1946 photographs of Russell
Lee with images by Earl Dotter from 2006. The site contains a wealth of
information about coal miners and their health and safety in addition to
the powerful photos.
In late 2005,
the Librarian of Congress selected The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of
Man for the National Film Registry. "This is a great honor as
the National Film Registry constitutes our National Film Treasures,”
stated Stephen Gong, former Deputy Director of the University of California
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Read
more.
The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man chronicles the 1972 disaster which killed 125 people and left 4,000 homeless when a coal-waste dam collapsed at the head of a hollow in Logan County, WV. In 1984, filmmaker Mimi Pickering completed Buffalo Creek Revisited, an update on the flood and its consequences.
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