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This Is West Virginia

Posted by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, Assistant Editor, Columnist in At TMV.
May 13th, 2008 | Comments

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.

DLS

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.)

archangel

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

DLS

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.

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