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Friday, June 15, 2007

Blowing Rock Pays Tribute to Fossil Fuels 

The Blowing Rock town council voted -- unanimously! -- Tuesday night to ban residential-sized windmills.

There's a mote in their eye. The arguments against wind energy were all about "appearance."

Eventually, one of these peak-oil days, such attitudes are going to seem as stuck in the 20th century mud as a triceratops in the goo of the Permian Basin.

// posted by J.W. Williamson @ 6/15/2007 10:14:00 AM

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• J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.


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