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This Is West Virginia
Posted by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, Managing Editor of TMV, and Columnist in At TMV.
May 13th, 2008 | 3 responses
May 13th, 2008 | 3 responses
This is West Virginia’s Beartown State Park . It is 107 acres purchased in 1970 with funds from the Nature Conservancy and a donation from Mrs. Edwin G. Polan, in memory of her son, Ronald Keith Neal, who fought and died in the Vietnam War.
West Virginia is a place of odd and delightful place names. Beartown State Park is located on the eastern summit of Droop Mountain where a major battle of the Civil War was fought by West Virginians in 1863. Pearl S. Buck, the venerable author, was born only a few minutes away.
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3 Responses to “This Is West Virginia”
Dr. E: Thanks for the two contrasting photos on West Virginia, with which I'm quite familiar, as I am with Iowa — unlike the hate-filled stupid, ugly stereotypes about the state (more precisely, about its residents), as I also saw committed against Iowa (that is, against its residents) earlier this year. (How contemptibly predictable.)
you are very uncanny DLS. Thank you for holding that viewpoint about people. A drop of clarifier can sometimes clear a whole bowl of murky water.
dr.e
As to the other, “scarred earth” photo, I'm sure Elrod could tell you about the same kind of stuff in Tennessee, and for all I know both he and you have read some of Caudill's books.