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By Vicki Smith
Morgantown, West Virginia (AP)
In Maria Gunnoe’s 11-year war over the strip mining that has ruined her homestead, there have been casualties: Family dogs poisoned and shot. Her truck’s fuel tank stuffed with sand. The innocence of her children, guarded in sleep by volunteers “when things heat up.”
And in what she sees as a grim nod to her American Indian heritage, Gunnoe herself was threatened one day at a southern West Virginia post office. “Dead Woman Walking,” they called her.
Morgantown, West Virginia (AP)
In Maria Gunnoe’s 11-year war over the strip mining that has ruined her homestead, there have been casualties: Family dogs poisoned and shot. Her truck’s fuel tank stuffed with sand. The innocence of her children, guarded in sleep by volunteers “when things heat up.”
And in what she sees as a grim nod to her American Indian heritage, Gunnoe herself was threatened one day at a southern West Virginia post office. “Dead Woman Walking,” they called her.
