10 objects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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