A child's trip to her grandmother's house located in a coal-mining region result in a memorable Christmas.

An illustrated chronicle of the growing protest movement against mountaintop removal mining (MTR) of coal in Appalachia, including essays, commentary, and oral

Describes life in a small mining town in the 1930s.

"Franz Kline, one of the most celebrated painters of the twentieth century, once described his hometown as a "little Dutch settlement wrapped up in a cloud of c

Story of the life and death of the coal-mining town Shallmar, Maryland. When the coal mine, the town's only business, closed in March 1949, the residents starve