How Does Mining Affect the Environment?
Athens, W.Va. – Geoff Buckley, assistant professor of geography at Ohio University, will be speaking on the historical and environmental effects of the coal mining industry in Appalachia in a lecture called Extracting Appalachia, on Wednesday, February 28 at 1 p.m. in the Main Theater of the Alexander Fine Arts Center at Concord University. In his lectures Geoff Buckley emphasizes how global and local environmental issues affect the audience directly and helps them realize the positive impact these issues have on them. In Extracting Appalachia, Buckley wants to help students and the public understand the power and meaning of mining in everyday early twentieth century life. “Extracting Appalachia is a study that supplements the existing discussion of the industrialization of Appalachia with an imaginative use of new sources,” says Gordon B. McKinney, professor at Berea College and director of Berea’s Appalachian Center. “Scholars of industrialization, photography and Appalachia will fin
