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

 

 

STUDENT PAPERS

(PDF Files)

"Food in the Coal Camps" - Larry Vernati

"Clothing" - Nichole Hess

"Coal Company Facilities" - Ashley Gray

"Coal Camp Music" - Dustin Hopkins

"Religion in Coal Camps" - Kevin Osborne

"Immigrants in the Coal Mines" - Amanda Schmitt

"Health Care in the Coal Camps" - Rachel Bennett

"Mortality" - Tiffany Chestnut

"Coal Pollution Invades the Water, Air, and Soil" - Amy Crowder

"Baldwin-Felts Agency" - Eli Smith

"Mother Jones and John L. Lewis" - Brittany Crowder

 

 

 

 

  

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