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Sisters Of The River |
| After years of being assured a proposed
new "parkway" would bring a better road that would lie gently
on the land, have little impact to private property, respect
private property along it's route, assuring faster ambulance service,
safer school bus travel, a way to meet their activities of daily living,
more than 100 private property owners were invited to a West
Virginia Division of Highways walk through type "public"
meeting in September, 1999. There was an ARMED GUARD at the door,
inadequate seating, forcing those property owners to stand at tables in
a long lines, waiting to get answers to "WHY are you taking ALL my
land (and giving it to the National Park Service)?" Mabel Flanagan, an 84 year old widow, was one of those private property owners waiting in line for answers. On one large display board, was a picture of Mabel's home. (A home she had built, raised her family in, years before that road was much more than a mud rutted weed strangled one-car-tire path along the New River) Through digital imagery in the next picture, Mabel's home had been blipped into oblivion to display how "nice" it would look once Mabel's home was gone! Mabel grabbed her chest and had to be taken home, never to leave her home again except to go to a doctor. In a TV interview with Mabel a few days later, the camera scanned into her little 84 year old wrinkled face, and with a teared twinkle in her eye, Mabel said, "I want to die in my home on the New River". Mabel Flanagan got her wish last summer. |
| MAVERICKLADY
COMMENTS: Now I have a question - was this woman sent to an early grave because of worrying about the government stealing her home right out from under her?? |
     
Ann Roachs' Letter to www.street.mail on Socialism |