Vol. 23 No. 2 - Summer 1995

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Eminent Domain

• From the Editor

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• Letters

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• Roundup

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• Followup: More Tales from the Trough

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• Sterilization Survivors Speak Out

  Eugenics survivor show for whom the Bell Curve tolls. By Mary Bishop

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• Eminent Domain Carves up a New South

  By Margaret Lynn Brown

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• Drawing the Lines in West Virginia

  The balance of power lines is being drawn in rural Appalachia. By Charlotte Pritt

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• Irrational NIMBYs vs. the Technocrats

  How to fight when they come for your land. By Jim McNeely

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• Re-Creation of the Mountains

  The Smoky Mountains were farmland until the tourists came. By Margaret Lynn Brown

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• Damming the Valley

  With its promise of cheap electricity, the TVA casts a long shadow. By Wayne Moore

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• Portrait of Watauga

  A community had to move for the TVA. By Jeff Whetstone

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• The Home Front's Dispossessed

  Black residents of the North Carolina Coast gave their homes to the war effort. By David Cecelski

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• A New Take on Takings

  Developers and other property owners are donning sheep's clothing to gut environmental laws. By Ron Nixon

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• Resources

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• Fiction: Water

  By Janet Hearne

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• Junebug: Bo Willie Redd and Princess Geraldine II

  By Junebug Jabbo Jones

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• Blueprint: Slow Burn in Louisiana

  By Sara Shipley

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• Voices: The Graduates

  By Berthrone L X Mock and Jo Dale Mistilis

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• Review: Life in Two Worlds

  By Ashley Byrd

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• Review: More Personal Journeys

  By Kevin O'Kelly

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• Still in the South: Air Conditioning

  By Raymond Arsenault

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