twenty years larry gibson and his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on kafer down outside charleston west virginia i when i met with the coal company to buy all my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about anyone can take our we don't give a damn about what he wants out of that melon or we care about is profit we make and and that was the dollar i would have been and the powerful i know we were playing there and it is a vice president called deal with ducks in a new team kids from magic oh one thousand nights he told me this gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain ridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites. eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me for you to clear my family cemetery and in one thousand nine hundred now in a period of rest and eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get to people to this and now