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Oral History
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Oral History
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| Education in the southern Appalachian coalfields | |
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"Josie Campbell and a One Room School" - Vickie Lipscomb |
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| Southern Appalachian coalfields | |
| Appalachia, Christmas past - Maxine Corbett | |
| Widen, West Virginia coal camp - Lola Given | |
| "Coal Camp Memories" narrative by: Joan Savilla | |
| "John Doe" West Virginia Coal Miner - "my son would not leave my side", my run over leg felt like a just killed deer, warm, moist and bloody. | |
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Women in Coal - Barbara Burns - "named superintendent without my knowledge"` |
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35 Years Underground - Elza Moore -"after my brother got his arm tore off, I got a little disgusted with mining" |
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Hominy Falls, Nicholas County, WV Black Monday - Barbara Lilly (miners trapped 10 days in mine) - "I was home with 3 small children when Jennings was trapped" |
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Murder-for-hire Yablonski - "Dr. Don Rasmussen traveled to every rally with Jock" |
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Black Lung Bill - Dr. Ken Hechler - "Black Lung kills" the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 |
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Buffalo Creek Flood - Larry Conn - "My daddy said to take mom and the kids to higher ground" |
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Truck Drivin’ Blues/Coal Tipple Man – C. E. “Bill” McCutcheon (79 years old) "I told him, if I don't go back on that mountain, I will never drive again" |
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Coal Miners' Supper - Enon, WV - they served me supper and oral histories of life in the coal mines |
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Memories of Welch - Sammie Wade - "I knew every cigarette brand because I helped to stock them on the shelves" |
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| Homer Hickam's October Sky/Rocket Boys (Coalwood, WVa.) | |
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Quecreek Mine Disaster - Ben Vinzani, Somerset Borough |
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Civil War Letters, Confederate soldiers writes home (from 1862 - 1864) |
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Eddie Caudill, Vietnam, "What in the hell is so special about Eddie Caudill?" J. Branscome |
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Flavie Ellison, "Good Morning Vietnam"
Flavie was country boy, trained to kill |
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Don Summers "Even the Sinners Pray Up There" - "I was baptized by immersion by the Chaplin at Luzon" |
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| Unpublished photos of Remagen Bridge - contributed by David Foster, 1/16/05 | |
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Ted McClung, WWII --"The Statue of Liberty, The Most Beautiful Thing" |
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| Bill McCutcheon WWII - "I can't eat pineapples to this day" | |
| Ralph Baber - WWII -- Invasion of Luzon | |
| Rural Health Care in Appalachia | |
| must read: "On the Wings of a Dove" oral history by Dr. Don Rasmussen | |
| Big City Medicine/Hometown Care - Dr. Paul Conley- Doing residency at St. Luke's he won both awards - featured in New York Times - "Rural Health" | |
| Black Lung Bill - Dr. Ken Hechler - "Black Lung kills" the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 | |
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| Newman Whitman - 102 years old, "The planes swooped down and we knew WWI was over" | |
| Lieber Cutlip - "It is said they buried the men in shallow graves around here" | |
| Lacy Hughart - "My 2 brothers was fastened up in the mines for 10 days" | |
| Rush Justice - "He said, "Can I have something to eat, I am starving" | |
| Buck Wright "Law & DisOrder in the Southern Appalachian Coalfields" | |
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| Robert C. Byrd, raised in coal camp in Southern Appalachian - powerful US Senator | |
| Dr. Tom Hatcher, full-circle - travel abroad, teacher and now back to the mountains | |
| W. D. Mick, (educator), readin' ritin', rithmetic' in the southern coalfields | |
| Homer Hickam, October Sky/Rocket Boys | |
| Immigrants in the southern Appalachian Coalfields | |
| Giulia Ferrante Zando - 98 year old immigrant -"Life was wonderful in War, West Virginia" | |
| Attack on America | |
| Jason's story - West Virginian in Pentagon - 25 year old walks away from 9/11 attack | |
| Al McCloud - attack on America (American Icon - Pentagon) | |
| Betty Jean - Building near Pentagon - aftermath of attack | |
| Vera's Story - Another West Virginian watches attack on Pentagon | |
| Nancy - "Dress for Success" - World Trade Center |
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