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 II: Folk Medicine of the Upper Kanawha Valley     PHOTO GALLERY   Blood Root Blood Root Yellow Root   Robert Darby and Yellow Root Leaf Dried Yellow Root Dried Ginseng   Ginseng Ginseng   Large ginseng root preserved in whisky Dried Sassafrass   Touch Me Not Black Cohosh Aloe Vera   Ground Ivy Peach Tree

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