Table of Contents

Foreword Orville Schell Robert B. Reich Acknowledgments Introduction: Slag Melanie Light PHOTOGRAPHS Ken Light ORAL HISTORIES Melanie Light Preface: Field Notes A Short History Lesson Mountain Woman Retired Coal Miner Snake Handler Preacher with a Mission Return to the Mountains The Lost Generation Mayor of North Fork Local Coal Industries Owner Justice for West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Novelist and Political Activist

About the Author

Ken Light, a social documentary photographer, is Adjunct Professor and Director of the Center for Photography, Graduate School of Journalism, at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers (2000), Texas Death Row (1997), and Delta Time (1995). Melanie Light is a writer and Executive Director of Fotovision.org.

Reviews

"Ken Light is a social documentary photographer in the classic sense ... he photographs people who otherwise would never be seen or heard." -- Ken Lassiter Photographer's Forum