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Pam

Helping the mountains keep their tops on...

About Me

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My Interests

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” ~Native American ProverbMaking pottery, Gardening, Birding, Bringing attention to and protesting Mountain Top Removal. Ousting G.Bush, Remembering and preserving my Kentucky heritage, through the music the cooking and the respect for the natural world.

I'd like to meet:

"Oh beautiful, for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountains majesty above the asphalt plain.America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,And hides the pinesWith billboard signs,From sea to oily sea."~George Carlin

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Music:

June and Johnny, Rosanne Cash, The Carter family, Hank 1, 2 and 3, Willie, Waylon, Merle, Patty Loveless "The mountain soul album", Jean Ritchie, Jack Rose,Talking Heads, The Beatles, Rockabilly, cajun jive, Porter, The White Stripes, Genesis(Gabriel years),Prog rock, 80's new wave, Ralph Stanley, Janis Joplin, Neko Case, Howard Glazer and the el34's... The dixie bee liners. The folk heros who put life to music. Bluegrass. Old time country with a twang! and Gospel sung acappella.

Movies:

Matewan, Harlan County USA, Little Miss Sunshine, Searching for the wrong eyed Jesus. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow!! Tim Burton movies.

Television:

Emeril Live, Discovery channel, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure,The weather channel, CNN, Inside the actors studio, The adams family, Green acres.

Books:

Lord of the rings, Watership Down, All of Silas House writings, Lost Mountain. Natural history books.

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Heroes:

A Coal Company on Kayford Mountain in southern West Virginia has destroyed the Family Cemetery of Larry Gibson..... the founder of Keeper of the Mountains Organization (KOTM)...during a mountain top removal process.IT WAS SPITE. PLEASE BELIEVE IT.DISMANTLE THE COAL COMPANIES THAT VIOLATE OUR COMMUNITIES, WILDLIFE, ECOLOGY, FORESTS, MOUNTAINS, STREAMS, AND WAY OF LIFE.BE PRO-DEEP MINING & ANTI-MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVALSAVE APPALACHIA, DON'T SIT THERE AND LET THIS HAPPEN what if it were the cemetery where your parents and grandparents rest ???THINK ABOUT IT. Popcorn Sutton (Appalachian Distillery Artisan)is a man who is a legend in my eyes...changes for no one and does his own thing. He answers to no one, and will forever be a hero in my eyes and in his own legendary words, we should all remember those who do not conform and stay true to themselves.Everyone who has sought to make a change for the better in this country. Anyone that hates Bush and isn't afraid to say so, The blue people of Troublesome creek. mountain people. Underground coal miners, Larry Gibson Kayford Mountain West Virginia. Maria Gunnoe and all of the people on the front lines trying to end MTR. My daughter. My Mom. Artists, Depression era moonshiners, The mountain people who raised me.

My Blog

Letter to Kelly..

Kel, I promise you that no matter who you choose to spend your life with I will accept and love him or her. There is no one that has the power to keep you from the person that brings life to your...
Posted by Pam on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:47:00 PST

Web site for the mountains.

http://www.ilovemountains.org/   If you love the  Appalachia mountains you need to go to this web page.
Posted by Pam on Sat, 05 May 2007 05:08:00 PST