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

Category: Coal mining

WV Mine Wars Museum to open May 16

In 2013, 8 West Virginians met in Matewan about the possibility of starting a museum on the history of the West Virginia mine wars.

Controversy over mining, strife between miners/their employers is not a new phenomena, as historian James Green points out in his new book.

The story of an old-time coal miner in “bloody Harlan” (Harlan County, KY) in the early to mid 1900s, told in his own words and dialect.

A precocious, nosey girl, who has eavesdropping down to a science, learns hard truths about coal mining in WV in this coming of age novel.

Activist Wilma Lee Steele surveys the bloody history of WV’s Blair Mountain and the struggle it represents right up to the present day.

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