Living and Dying in Libby

Brian Plonka

The Spokesman-Review

Cloie Boardner watches her grandfather pound a cross into the ground at the Libby Cemetery prior to a memorial service for asbestos victims. Cloie's grandmother died of asbestosis and both her parents have lung abnormalities. It was also discoverd that the soil at her elementary school was heavily contaminated with vermiculite. Cloie won't know her fate from exposure for several more decades.

Brian Plonka, "Living and Dying in Libby," in POYi Archive, Item #32553, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/32553 (accessed November 21, 2024).