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Larry Gibson
Larry Gibson (1946 – September 9, 2012) was a renowned anti-mining environmentalist from West Virginia, who spent the majority of his adult life opposing mountaintop coal mining in the area, specifically at Kayford Mountain. He was president of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation and lifetime member of the Sierra Club. He also was a board member for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.〔
==Childhood and Early Life==
The Gibson family originally have lived in the Kayford Mountain area since their ancestors in the 1700s, but when Gibson was a child, his family moved from the home where he was born to an urban town in northern Ohio. Ironically, his father and grandfather were both coalminers and he had many other relatives who worked in the mines.〔 The family were very poor and moved around the different coal camps of the area.〔 Gibson’s father lost his job while Larry was still studying in fourth grade.〔
He went on to work in the automobile industry at General Motors until an injury forced him into early retirement. He returned to Kayford Mountain shortly afterwards, where he found that mountaintop mining operations had become so prevalent that one nearly infringed on his family’s cemetery plot. This cemetery plot was eventually desecrated by mining equipment, an act that he stood by to witness in the early 2000s.〔 Living in such a beautiful landscape inspired Gibson at a young age; he once said, “Growing up here was an adventure every day. I played with my pet bobcat, my fox, my hawk. All of these things, the good Lord provided on this land.”
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