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The other two founders, a former mercenary who lived on Possum Ridge and a local business contractor, eventually lost the thrill of publication drudgery and let Gary and his wife, Judy, take over in 1984. Gary placed an image of Don Quixote on the cover. They churned it out from their A-frame home off a dirt road in the woods, a couple of miles from a shoulder-in-the-road-sized postal community called Herod. For the next twenty-five years, the couple lovingly laid out each page, collected and wrote stories and historical tidbits and recipes, and eventually took to reprinting forgotten chronicles from the nineteenth century.
They presented their community of coal miners with a simple message: We have a choice. 5 HOURS: THE CHOICES WE MADE 29 jected by the county and statewide officials, who allowed the mountaintop removal operation to proceed. The stranglehold of the Big Coal lobby on local and national politicians, and our history, had never been so obvious. I realized it was time to go back to Eagle Creek. ◊ ◊ ◊ like most children at the tail end of the baby boomers, on the concept of coal-fired industrial progress.
Louis, Missouri. They followed the well-worn hillbilly highway that had carried the unemployed miners, bootleggers, and dirt farmers for several generations out of southern Illinois. But, my parents were not unemployed miners—they were the first children of mining communities that had left on their own terms, not in desperation. They arrived as a successful lawyer and a dynamic schoolteacher, anxious to be part of the middle-class American dream that rested on the rise and fall of the urban smoke stacks from the coal-fired factories and mills and industries.