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Jesco White, also known as the "Dancing Outlaw" (born July 30, 1956) is an American folk dancer and entertainer. He is best known as the subject of three American documentary films that detail his desire to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, D. Ray White, while dealing with depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, and the poverty that affects some parts of rural Appalachia.
The Coal Valley News is a weekly newspaper produced in Madison in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [2] Published on Wednesdays, it has a 2016 circulation of 1,176, [1] and is owned by HD Media. [3] The 2014 book The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains identified the Coal Valley News as the "region's principal local ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Garry Neil Drummond Sr. was born in 1938 at Sipsey, Alabama. [1] [2] His father, Heman Edward Drummond, was the founder of the Drummond Company, a coal company, in 1935.[3] [4] Drummond started working in his father's coal mines at the age of fifteen.
Murray was born on January 13, 1940, in Martins Ferry, Ohio. [3] He said he lied about his age so he could work in a coal mine at the age of 16 and provide for his family, had experienced multiple mining accidents including a head injury from being struck by a steel beam, had a scar running from his head down his back from a separate accident, and once was trapped in a dark mine for 12 hours ...
The Cabell Standard was an independent, weekly newspaper covering Cabell County, West Virginia.The paper was first printed in 1898 in Milton, West Virginia, by James R. Dudley. [1]
The youngest of eight siblings, Hayes was born in Conifer, Pennsylvania, to Anna Hivick Hayes, a housewife, and Dr. Leo Z. Hayes, who preceded his daughter as the physician employed by Shawmut Mining Co. [6] The company transferred Leo to Force when Betty was a young child, and she attended school in neighboring Weedville, where most of her classmates came from mining families and many would ...
Coal Valley Township, Rock Island County, Illinois This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 03:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...