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Listed below are comments made by Seldom_Seen_Smith between Saturday, 11th October 2008 and Saturday, 11th October 2008.

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Surface tension 5:17pm on 11 Oct 2008 Back in the late '60s a songwriter named John Prine wrote a song about a Kentucky town called "Paradise". The chorus says "Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away."

Mr. Peabody's still at it in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, and the Black Mesa of Northern Arizona.

A description of Powder River can be found in John Mc Phee's "Annals of the Former World"

Edward Abbey wrote about Black Mesa in "The Monkey Wrench Gang."

John Sayles' movie "Matewan" describes an labor conflict that preceded the Battle of Blair Mountain.

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