Can the Miner's Daughter Do It?

WEST Virginia; UNITED States

West Virginia is a land of few surprises, where change, is often look at with mistrust and suspicion. What little change occurs appears to be the last spasms of the one-hundred-year degradation that has gripped these mountains. A new strip mine, a new strip mall, both products of the same machineries that pillaged the land of its coal and timber and then ensnared its people in the coils of a tawdry consumerism. But change, like water, finds its way into places where no one would expect it. So perhaps the author shouldn't have been so surprised when she saw Charlotte Pritt on television announcing her candidacy for governor the last day in January.