Article: MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL: ; W.Va. family has always resisted 'skinners'

One of our family stories is that a Mr. Skinner came up Coal River from St. Albans buying mineral rights at rock bottom prices. He made his "generous" offer to my ancestor who told him, "You are Skinner by name and you are Skinner by trade, but you will not skin old Isaac Barker."

Consequently my uncle owns 40 acres with the mineral rights intact on Big Coal River in Boone County.

Mountaintop removal strip-mining is closing in from all directions on our beautiful farm. The farm has 10 acres of fertile bottom land and a barn built in 1917 by lumber washed ashore in the 1916 flood. The ridge running toward our farm and parallel to Big Coal River from Ashford to Bull Creek is being destroyed. ...

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