Patti Adamson·Aug 16Forgotten Foods Appalachian Coal Miners Carried in Their Lunch PailsThis is the story of eight foods that rode two thousand feet underground in a metal bucket every single day, foods built specifically to…
InNo TimebySteven David Justin Sills·May 30Man of CoalFrom the Collection of poetry, An American Papyrus You knew it was coming: Twenty-three years and the mine Would notice you one time…
Andrea Zuehlk·Sep 4, 2025The One About A Coal MinerMikita Hotra (1873–1937), also known as Michael or Mike, was my maternal great grandfather who worked in the bituminous coal mines of…
Scott Douglas Jacobsen·Apr 5, 20251067: Coal Miner’s VietnamBeing a coal miner during the Vietnam War was eventually more dangerous than being in the Vietnam War.
Nikki Broadwell·Dec 21, 2021Joe Manchin is now in competition for the most hated man in America…He and McConnell will have to duke it out for the prize. Not sure how Manchin can call himself a democrat…he has single handedly taken what…
Theodore Block·Jun 8, 2021The land where almost no one visited and its favorite son, Joe, Duke of ManchinThis story was originally published in www.around-the-block.com
InThe Story HallbySusan G Holland·Jun 10, 2017Back Under? Back into the Coal Mines?by Susan G Holland
Ross McCluney·Feb 28, 2017Open Letter to DNC Chairman Tom Perez and Deputy Chairman Keith EllisonI heard Chairman Perez’s 26 Feb statement on Meet the Press, almost in passing, about out-of-work coal miners. Here are some things I think…
