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Illustrations Builder Levy (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution 1972, Nimrod Workman, School Street, Chattaroy, Mingo County, W.Va. (Page 5) Click for larger view View full resolution 1970, Osage, Scotts Run, Monongalia County, W. Va. (Page 9) Click for larger view View full resolution 1970, Glenda Lee, Pikeville, Pike County, Ky. (Page 10) Click for larger view View full resolution 2008, Shelby Mari Hagan, preschool/kindergarten, Dixie Elementary School, Nicholas County, W.Va. (Page 23) Click for larger view View full resolution 2004, Alysa Estep in the creek bed behind her grandfather's house after rainstorm flooding, Litton Hollow, Chattaroy, Mingo County, W.Va (Page 36) Click for larger view View full resolution 2003, Chopping Branch, which has been flooded 6 times since TECO started mountaintop removal mining on the mountain above, McRoberts, Letcher County, Ky. (Page 42) Click for larger view View full resolution 1971, Charles Blevin's Red Robin Inn, Borderland, Mingo County, W.Va. (Page 47) Click for larger view View full resolution 1972, Lidge Hunter's House, Chattaroy, Mingo County, W.Va. (Page 48) Click for larger view View full resolution 2004. Nathan Coleman, first grade, first day of school, Bartley Elementary School, McDowell County, W.Va., (Page 53) Click for larger view View full resolution 1974, Cloverfork viewed from Highsplint Bridge, Harlan County, Ky. (Page 64) Click for larger view View full resolution 1972, George Johnson and his older sister in Myrtle, Mingo County, W.Va. (Page 69) Click for larger view View full resolution 1970, Coal Camp, near Grundy, Buchanan County, Va., (Page 74) Click for larger view View full resolution 2005, Demonstration to end mountaintop removal mining, state capital of Charleston, Kanawha County, W.Va. (Page 78) Click for larger view View full resolution 1970, Johnny Crabtree and Jim Ed Witt preaching, Sprigg, Mingo County, W.Va. (Page 89) Click for larger view View full resolution 2006, Welch, McDowell County, W.Va. (Page 94) Click for larger view View full resolution 1974, Mae Phillips and her Granddaughter Jeanie, Kildav, Harlan County, Ky. (Page 97) Click for larger view View full resolution 1973, Between Marianna and Cokeburg, Washington County, Pa. (Page 98) Click for larger view View full resolution 1970, Toby Moore, Old House Branch Mine, Eastern Coal Company, Pike County, Ky., (Page 100) Builder Levy Builder Levy has photographed life in coalfield Appalachia for over forty years. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and the author of Images of Appalachian Coalfields and Builder Levy, Photographer. His work has had more than fifty one-person exhibitions of his photographs. He taught at-risk adolescents in New York City for 35 years. Copyright © 2010 Berea College

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