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Kathy Shearer Author & Publisher Clinch Mountain Press P.O. Box 117 Emory, Virginia 24327 276-944-5355 clinchmtn@gmail.com

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I have been collecting oral history and old photographs in the Southwest Virginia mountains since 1996. My first book, Memories From Dante, The Life of a Coal Town, was published in 2001 by People Incorporated, and is now out of print but available from time to time on amazon.com and ebay.

For twelve years, my husband, Rees, and I lived on Mudlick Creek Farm, tucked into a cove on the south slope of Clinch Mountain near Hayters Gap in Washington County, Virginia. When we weren't working, we were often roaming the mountain's folds and peaks.

Two years after our son, Daniel, was born in 1982, we left the farm to become a part of community life in Emory, a few miles south.

I named my publishing company Clinch Mountain Press in recognition of this towering range which we continue to explore.
 

Lucille Whitaker, 1925-2007, helped me gather stories and pictures for the Dante History Project exhibit and then persuaded me to write my first book, Memories from Dante: The Life of a Coal Town...."Honey, we need a BOOK!" Lucille never met a stranger. She was a very special woman.

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