Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Coal mining

30th Anniversary Screening of the Movie “Matewan”

The Mine Wars Museum partnered with the West Virginia Humanities Council and the Appalachian Community Fund to host the screening.

A faction developed unfriendly to Mr. Carter, and in 1901, by snap methods, the company was thrown by Moore and Schley into receivers’ hands.

Theodore Dreiser organized a committee to infiltrate KY’s Harlan coal mines to investigate allegations of abuses against striking miners.

What was it like in Moore Hollow after the mines got started? It was booming. New York didn’t have any more business than Moore Hollow.

The school bells rung, and the peoples’ wonderin’, well they hadn’t heard yet that the Armistice was signed.…and then they all celebrated.

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