the boom days of coal

An intergenerational oral history project documenting life in the coal camps

of the Upper Kanawha Valley, West Virginia
 

 

 

 

                          

The Boom Days of Coal Volume I: Life in the Coal Camps

 

 

PHOTO GALLERY

 

Oral History Interviews

View a pictures of the oral history interviews in progress at Riverside High School

 

Cabin Creek Community Tour

View pictures of the Riverside High students on the Cabin Creek Community Tour,

led by Cabin Creek resident Owen Stout.

 

Student Presentations and Oral History Reception

View pictures of the students' presentations of their senior papers in front of an audience of the oral history interviewees and their guests.

 

Historical Pictures of Cabin Creek

View a PDF slideshow of Cabin Creek during the turnpike survey of 1953

 

 

 

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                                                                                                                                   Rural  Health

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