Closing circle of the Mountaintop Removal Summit

Event: Mountaintop Removal Summit.
In August of 1999, Sam Cook, an anthropologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, organized a Mountaintop Removal Summit. The summit, held at the Appalachian South Folklife Center near Pipestem, brought together activists working with community-based organizations, as well as from regional and national organizations concerned with the cultural and environmental costs of mountaintop removal mining.
Photo donated to the collection and reproduced with the permission of Laura Foreman.