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Soudan Mine

Soudan Mine Nancy Sather Appalachian Heritage, Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 1999, p. 9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1999.0005 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435507/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:58 GMT from JHU Libraries Maybe that's the way it should be. Leadership is a living thing, not a chapter in a book. Leadership isn't like money or power. It's not something that can be kept safe in a bank. Leadership exists only when individual vision joins with a community's respect. It's fleeting and it's rare. Everything here is red and silent and smells of iron. In the crusher house the steps are worn rounded by generations deafened by the pounding. The town waits timeless without the whistle from the mine. Dogs bark in the valley. Children's voices ring in the silence. Cars slur along the highway, rising to a roar. I have heard these towns before under dead tipples in the Cumberlands where everything is coal-dust black and silent and good houses stand empty draped in kudzu vines. -Nancy Sather http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Soudan Mine

Sather, Nancy.
Appalachian Review , Volume 27 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Nancy Sather Appalachian Heritage, Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 1999, p. 9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1999.0005 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435507/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:58 GMT from JHU Libraries Maybe that's the way it should be. Leadership is a living thing, not a chapter in a book. Leadership isn't like money or power. It's not something that can be kept safe in a bank. Leadership exists only when individual vision joins with a community's respect. It's fleeting and it's rare. Everything here is red and silent and smells of iron. In the crusher house the steps are worn rounded by generations deafened by the pounding. The town waits timeless without the whistle from the mine. Dogs bark in the valley. Children's voices ring in the silence. Cars slur along the highway, rising to a roar. I have heard these towns before under dead tipples in the Cumberlands where everything is coal-dust black and silent and good houses stand empty draped in kudzu vines. -Nancy Sather

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