Dec
4
The Things A Coal Miner Leaves Behind
My grandfather, Paris Mitchem, was a McDowell County coal miner. Born in 1902 and passed in March 1979, these are the documents he left behind.
Author: Renee Bolden
Nov
22
The Surprising Art of a Coal Miners’ Grandson
How a kid from Wyoming County took a form of art not common in the hills of West Virginia and made it his own.
Nov
17
A Look Inside An Abandoned McDowell County Church
What we found when we explored one of the county's empty churches, the old Mt. Zion AME Church, in Eckman.