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Episode 36: Eminent Domain

Old Gods of Appalachia

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Tourniquit, West Virginia, Was a Place That Had Never Been Right

Tourniquit, west virginia was a place that had never been right. Tourniqit wasn't even really a town, because people live in a town. For decades, they had dug and blasted and hauled the meat of the mountain from its deep places up to the surface. One by one, the larger coal companies began to drift from the area when new digs didn't yield the same tonnage or the same quality of coal.

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