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a forty-five minute hike to the state road, a change of clothes in the truck, and a drive to the school, where she hung her snow-caked clothes in the boiler room to dry.
She relied on a “strong spiritual base" to cope with hardships and uncertainties and loneliness. Her walks in and out provided opportunities for “privacy and meditation.” She didn’t mind the long walks. “I’m a private person,” she asserted.
Rick usually stayed at the farm, clearing land, gardening, tending his honeybees and crops. His plan was to establish a canning and preserves operation, selling a variety of products made from small fruits and honey.
Devotion, hard work, persistence, imagination, and the intrinsic fertility of the farm yielded their rewards. Rick and Susan found a ready market for their raspberries. Rick, especially, loved the farm and farm work. Susan enjoyed the "cycles” of farm life — the, sequence of crops, the seasonal changes. “The first whippoorwill just thrilled me to death. I just loved that whippoorwill and waited for him every spring.”
They loved the farm, and. wanted it to be their permanent home.
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The effects of acid drainages from coal mine spoils are devastating and permanent. The “overburden” material which must be removed to expose a coal seam often contains iron sulfides, which oxidize when exposed to the air. Rainwater or groundwater which passes through the disturbed overburden forms sulfuric acid.
On strip mines, says Rick, “the problem of revegetation and sediment control is
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