Boston Globe – A music and art festival nestled in an Appalachian river valley wouldn‘t immediately seem like a place where President Trump’sDepartment of Government Efficiency would be top of mind.
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But outdoorsy locals at the annual Cheat River Festival last weekend were indeedruminating on the many ways the long arm of Washington has disrupted life in these verdant woods.
Sitting in lawn chairs with friends listening to a folk band was a Forest Service employee who’s lost so many colleagues to layoffs and buyouts that he worries about the cascading effects of the cuts on local communities and forests. An artist selling wood work inlaid with stone lost a grant to help grow the whitewater rafting business she owns with her husband.
