Title: A View from the Mountain
First published: 2006
Description: Jack Kestner was a talented newspaper columnist who wrote a weekly piece for the Bristol Herald Courier, Bristol, TN-VA, about his mountain heritage, his return from city life to raise his children on Clinch Mountain and his love of nature. Jack's efforts to protect the Great Channels on the Clinch resulted in the state of Virginia acquiring the property above his and creating a state forest to ward off development.
Subjects: Clinch Mountain, Southwest Virginia, Journalists, Biography, History, Nature, Environment, Anecdotes, Social life and customs
Places: Washington County (Va.), Virginia, Washington County
People: Kestner family, Jack Kestner (1921-2005)
LC classification: PN4874.K488 A25 2006