Reckoning at Eagle Creek
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As the finale to the Coal Summit, which opened with a screening of On Coal River and a documentary workshop, the campus community reconvened at the Rose O’Neill Literary House for a reading by journalist Jeff Biggers, author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret legacy of Coal in the Heartland.
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