i want to read 10 minutes from my new book, along with jason howard, my co-author, who will read of after me and we spent about two and a half years working on this book and it was the most emotionally devastating book i ever worked on. we traveled all over the region, all over appalachian, met all kind of people that are not in the book. finally focused on 12 people that we wrote long magazine style features on and turned it over to them and let them do an oral history too, so it was anser sighs in capturing people's voices. one of the things we know is being lost, in mountaintop removal, is the storytelling and the people's voices. that's what's being ground down into the ground, are the voices of the people and so we wanted to make a book to preserved those voices and would let the people tell their own stories, so this section i'm going to read from is about bev may, who was very involved in the fight against platform d, has already been active in standing up for other people, and as you'll see in this little bit that i'm going to read, now her own land is under threat, after she foug