Park Hills neighbors defend towering pile of mining waste
Monday, May 16, 2005
PARK HILLS, Mo. -- You won't hear Elwood "Knot" Ragsdale or many others along Buckley Street call the mining waste towering 30 stories above their homes a neighborhood eyesore, a wind-swept legacy of the community's bygone days of keeping the nation supplied with lead.
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