Author and environmental activist Silas House will speak Wednesday, April 2

Author and environmental activist Silas House will speak Wednesday, April 2,  at 8 p.m. in Wygal Auditorium. "He will talk about civic engagement as it relates to mountaintop removal mining, which he is trying to stop," said Dr. Scott Cole, associate professor of political science and co-director of the Civic Leadership Institute, which is sponsoring the program. House, currently writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, is the author of the novels Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves and The Coal Tattoo and the play The Hurting Part.