Ain’t No Neutral Here

Blackjewel Miners, Appalachia, and Solidarity

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Coal Country

He pulls back his sandy blond hair to show the place where his ear once was and tells us that — I kid you not — his name is Choppy.

It was a long story about how he lost his ear, full of dramatic reenactments, swigs from his Coors can, and a couple sidetracked stories that wound around…