Helen Lewis

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Helen Lewis, activist and scholar, was a founder of the Appalachian Studies discipline. After moving to Wise, Virginia, in the heart of coal country, in 1955, she came to despise the human and environmental devastation caused by the coal and chemical industry.

Courtesy of Appalachian State University, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection.

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