About Julian Martin Books
Julina Martin is the eighth generation of his family born in West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley. His father once told him of shoveling coal in a coal mine while standing on his knees in a foot of water. Martin has a chemical engineering degree from West Virginia University and worked two years in the chemical industry. After one month training to make sidewinder missiles, he joined the Peace Corps. Since the Peace Corps Martin worked as Foreign Student Adviser at West Virginia University, taught high school chemistry and physics in the San Francisco Bay area and in West Virginia, directed Urban Outreach for the Charleston, WV, YMCA, and was an organic farmer on his family homeplace. The author served several years on the board of directors of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and the Kanawha State Forest Foundation. He is presently a director of the West Virginia Labor History Association and the West Virginia Environmental Education Association. In retirement, Julian Martin has been active in the efforts to stop the destructive practice of mountain top removal strip mining in his beloved Appalachian Mountains. His Peace Corps memoir, Imagonna: Peace Corps memories is available at amazon.com
