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Sago Mine Disaster (Featured Story) 
Appalachian Coalfield Stories


 

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 June 26, 27, 28, 29, 2008
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B. L. Dotson-Lewis, Author
 about the author: 
 History Channel Interview - Hatfield & McCoy Feud, 2005
 Akabira, Japan - International Mining Congress - Historian, 2004
 Nagasaki, Japan - Town Meeting, speaker on local/regional history preservation, 2004
 West Virginia Festival of Books, 2004
 National Black Lung Conference Speaker, 2006  
International Women's Writing Guild member


       
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Christmas in Appalachia
W.Va. leads nation in free and reduced meals
Stories, articles & Featured WriterrgiNicholas County Potato Festival Sept. 2006
"Jar Flies"  click here for essay   
new:  How Journalism Affects Rural America
new:  What Rural Folk Want from Journalists
new:  Fayette Lung Association Offers Support
new;  Kentucky Coal Camps

James Branscome, Appalachian Author,
National Advisory Board -
Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky
 
(Special Collection) click here

Annihilating the Hillbilly
Strip mine hearings (1971)
The Case for Appalachian Studies
Co
ld Days, Dark Nights" (NYT)
Mountain  Eagle Newspaper ,
Federal Government in Appalachia, excerpt

 
 

King Coal (Appalachian History)

History of Coal 1923
Harlan County, KY
Coal Mine photos
Blair Mountain Mine War photos

Mountaintop removal
UMWA rally, Horizon bankruptcy
Cannelton Hollow, WVa.- Cecil Roberts
Coal Mine Related Deaths May Appear
Mountaintop removal, Kayford Property, WV,

Appalachian Culture
Blacksmith  will travel
Appalachian Stories
Coon Hunting with a Cripple -
Appalachian Folklife Center

War Stories
Civil War - sites and letters
USS West Virginia
Veterans high school Graduation
War Letters from Gen. Wing
Roy Dotson, WWII
WWII
Invasion of Luzon -
 Ralph Baber

    updated:June 11, 2008