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Above are photos of honors Roger Osborne received Oct. 9, 2004. Bestowed upon him by the West Virginia Division of Highways, the Boone County Board of Education, and a multitude of readers and friends. They are located in Bim, Boone County, West Virginia.
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"I write from the heart. It's the only way I know how to write." - Roger Osborne

Osborne has written five books and publishes a quarterly newsletter. Three of his books, Land of Yesterday, Pilgrimage to an Appalachian Mining Camp, and Voices from Appalachia, are nonfiction. The Mountains Wept and My Mountain Angel, are fiction.

But even the fiction books are virtual mirror images of what it was like growing up in an Appalachian coal mining camp during the '40s and '50s, just before the automation  upheaval forced millions of Appalachians to leave their homes and find a new life outside the mountains.

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