Title: Pickering's Mountain
Description: When Sam and Margery Weatherby leave New York behind and head for the Kentucky mountains for his newspaper job, they think they are headed for a simpler place. But they end up living in Alma Pickering's household and are soon embroiled in complicated Appalachian battles over religion and mountaintop removal for coal mining. They also find themselves behind the front lines in Alma Pickering's own civil war with her "former" husband, the Reverend Joshua Pickering.
Subjects: Mountaintop removal mining, Fiction, Religious life and customs, Journalists
Places: Kentucky