Focus of website & Biography of webmaster
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http://www.AppalachiaCoal.com
The
goal of this site is to help sustain, preserve and enhance the
Appalachian Heritage culture to raise awareness of the individualist
spirit that has sustained this region.
The site has numerous first-person interviews with the Scots-Irish
settlers and other immigrants who have struggled through coal
mine tragedies, union wars, floods, and industrialization and
de-industrialization to help form the modern Appalachia. It has prescriptions for
reform,
celebrations of things that are worth preserving in the modern
world, and paints a unique portrait of mountain people in their own
words.
jim branscome -
2002 |
B. L. Dotson-Lewis, creator
webmaster@appalachiacoal.com
My family is from Buchanan
County, Virginia. Their parents came to Virginia as early settlers from
North Carolina and Tennessee.
We moved to Summersville, West Virginia when I
was small so I attended public schools in West Virginia.
I graduated from Nicholas County High School in Summersville,
West Virginia and attended Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. I
graduated from Glenville State Teachers College where I serve on one its
advisory boards
I am employed by the Nicholas County Board of
Education (21st Century sponsors my site).
Named to the Glenville State Teachers College Advisory Board,
Community-Technical Division.
Member of Economic and Development Council, City of
Summersville, WV.
Living so high in the mountains where you can nearly touch the stars by night
and the clouds rest on the treetops by day, gives life a new meaning
daily.
Until this website, I spent my free time as an
Appalachian Artisan, specializing in textile arts; designing and making quilts,
wall hangings and flags with an Appalachian theme.
This website was published in June, 2001.
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