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'I love Mountains Day' Protest

Ella Lemley-Fry, right, holds a flag as members of the Buddhist Nipponzan Myohoji play the drums while chanting a prayer for peace Monday afternoon as they travel down U.S. 60 from Versailles into downtown Frankfort.
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Ella Lemley-Fry, right, holds a flag as members of the Buddhist Nipponzan Myohoji play the drums while chanting a prayer for peace Monday afternoon as they travel down U.S. 60 from Versailles into downtown Frankfort.

Dozens of protesters have staged sit-ins outside the governor’s office leading up to “I Love Mountains Day,” but the last shift before today’s big rally went to Footprints for Peace. The group deserved a break – its members spent the last two weeks walking here from Eastern Kentucky. About a dozen people, hailing from New Jersey to rural Kentucky, spent the last 12 days walking from Prestonsburg to Frankfort – about 150 miles – to protest mountaintop removal mining.

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