M.C. Higgins, The Great: Virginia HamiltonMayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain and surveying the Appalachian hills that slope to the Ohio river. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the ugly wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of rubble that may one day fall and bury his home. M. C. dreams of escape for himself and his family. And, one day, atop his pole, he thinks he