Johnny Kilroy
Member since December 2009
I studied cultures and regions at Virginia Tech, and learned something of how people become who they are. I was offered to lead U.S. Marines, but that culture taught me what I wasn’t. Then I saw what binds us all, that the good earth is our only sovereign.
On a dreary November weekend, in 2006, some friends and I visited a mountain top removal coal mine in West Virginia. Larry Gibson brought us Kayford Mountain. His story is a tragedy that inspires; it left me in rapture for the American highlander.
“If you come here, and see this, and do nothing…you’ve wasted my time,” he said. “Do something.”
It happened. I began documenting things, what I thought reasonable people should know. That might momentarily halt the world’s spinning.
