Coal Country

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“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I ... believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)