Another Really Old Picture

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Another Really Old Picture This is a picture of my DAD, when he was very young. He was born in 1908, so this picture is over 100 years old and I have the original photo. Don’t you just love his outfit? He was the youngest of ten children. He grew up on a farm in West Virginia. The last time I went to visit the farm where he was born and raised, I found out that the land had been strip mined for coal. The house, of course, was long gone and the land was scarred from the mining of the coal, to the point that it was unrecognizable to me. It’s a sad situation in West Virginia where a lot of strip mining still goes on today. In years past the coal was taken from deep mines mostly. Now they just cut right into the hills and scar the land. Legislation has been passed so that the mining companies have to do some repair to the areas that are stripped, but this type of mining has completely changed the landscape. Where there used to be “the beautiful West Virginia hills, how majestic and how grand” (words from the West Virginia state song) now there are flat tops to most of the hills and it looks so different. How far will humans go before they ruin everything? Read Revelation 11:18