What People Are Saying

About Something's Rising:

"This revelatory work...is oral history at its best."

            - Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize winner

"Something's Rising is a humble call to those who believe that man is capable of all things."

            - The Washington Times

"In this powerful volume, the authors give voice to people trying to save their mining towns."

            - Southern Living

"A landmark of oral history."

            - The Courier-Journal

"In Something's Rising, we read about children playing on creek bottoms coated with carcinogens and in streams full of dead fish. But we also hear about ordinary Appalachian people overcoming fear and fatalism to stand up for their homes and for God's creation."

            - Sojourners