That's Orval "Hoppy" Ray, and Hoppy is in the news because of his former hometown, Picher, Oklahoma. In 2006, the feds bought out everyone who lived in Picher. Why?
Because Picher is "a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites...where kids suffered lead poisoning, where homes built atop underground mines plunged into the Earth and where the local creek coughs up orange water, laced with heavy metals."
Everyone left--except Hoppy (although eventually even he did).
Now the locals are back to celebrate the memory of Picher, and Hoppy? He's a self-published author. His latest offering, Just Call Me Hoppy "chronicles his memories of a pre-toxic Picher, a time he believes everyone else has forgotten."
Be sure to check out the article, via CNN.
I think it goes without saying what label this post gets.
More soon.
JS
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