21 objects

A man discussing the energy industry [coal vs. oil], the coal industry.

W.P. Tams, a former coal operator, discussing unions, John L. Lewis, the death of the coal camp, ...

Coal miner John Hinson discusses working in the mines, being a supervisor, tells stories about di...

Women at Brookside, Harlan County, KY discussing life in the coal camps, bath houses, their famil...

A woman and her boy talking about trading, being raised in Evarts, life in the camps. A woman dis...

Bessie Cornet describing the conditions at Brookside in the beginnings of the strike, discusses t...

Lois Scott discusses union organizing and her personal family experiences with union-related viol...

Field audio tape of Hobart Grills and John Tiller discussing the different clashes between union ...

Coal miner John Carter discussing coal camps, coal mining, and the changes in community and econo...

A woman discussing union organizing, the changing power structures in the UMWA, Tony Boyle, and d...

Former coal operator W.P. Tams Jr. discussing the Virginian Railway, changes in the transportatio...

Interview with Anne Caudill about strip mining and activism associated with the Appalachian Volun...

A short story by Eli Gover about the destruction wrought in Appalachia by the coal economy. Featu...

Willa Johnson, Teri Blanton, Claudia Cole, Erica Urias, Dave Cooper, and Pat Bates discuss the po...

Digging for a Living 
1997 
15 minutes.  Linda Burgen, Jeremy Bussey, Chastity Harris...

A film about surface mine reclamation in Eastern Kentucky. Filmed and edited by Michael Matney & ...

This video from 1993 features testimony and footage from union coal miners on strike at the Beth-...

A wooden barn sheltering a cow and agricultural equipment sits behind a wooden fence. On the hill...

A smokestack connected to a power plant is visible across a body of water. The pond is likely an ...

Three men, one in work coveralls and two others in button down shirts and slacks, stand in front ...