Erik Reece will talk about his book Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia at the ASU Library. A writer in residence at the University of Kentucky, his work appears in the New York Times, Harper's, Orion, The Nation, and The Oxford American among others.
Reece's book concentrates on a new form of strip mining that has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it, a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction.
Location :: Carol G. Belk Library
Appalachian State University
Date :: Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Time :: 7:30 pm
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