That. Its in the december morning and im on a bus headed down south from chinatown new york there breathless driver speeds up on the ice who really its im traveling across the states in a snowstorm because of a book. Written over dishpan of twenty years back and forth from the mining areas to Eastern Kentucky the book by italians corner. Is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle words to round mining of coal when amy grants were to come to the area to work well paid but often has faded jobs the book tells the story of Harlan County thats where im going. To bury. This repast. Own. Land. Im headed to the depot mary kom. I want to see whats left of the. Three years since this first base is now that the us is shifting to major and gas and coal mines for shutting down one after another i do not expect to find a lively city when i drive into harlem i find a ghost of the city where people are stuck like car turns him black and white picture their stories and their. Have not changed much from those recorded by pushed Fields Research and that they are leaving me in this journey round. The world. Well when i really dont know what. They. Would have been in thirty. Plus at least two it would be. Worth. No maam. But in their place now its. Like appalachian man but. Appalachian male eating. Its. Very. Trying on a farm or falls. Are shallow. I got married when a. I was sixteen years old and my husband was seventeen years old and lead me in myriad about six months then he went into the mountains and then six months after that dad and i went to court accident. I had two week old son. Lady who lived down the street here only. Killed. Vertebra that he would hit really. Low. Where no. Company wants to cold real thats george said also the coal ready for the christmas they wanted him there and we. Shot the whole milk but done it was done by that old wallet which. Killed him if. They know it much. To tell them both that locket one through to it and that shielded. That they paid to see it there i would say oh. I see. Any other. Field am. I. I find remnants of the mining history or longer memories of the casualties and the hard labor are alive in the stories told by the young and the like theyre not had to crowd the glory of collective childhood and hard work paid off. Speaking to the local scene dusty barson saloons he can see that their life was and still is mine mines harder now. Relief their collective legend and whether played a part where sid would try to steer says by the words disappearing before day i ask for the rose parade rest. In their stride brand is a bit of a work first year raises go on field but first you have like i went sixty of them at minus grill so. It was work and i got there as my grandpa grandma a six awful sweater. But maybe you mean you. Will. Go. In every lady made home a and at it. He always had police because you know now with bates the life that youll say. Youre going through. You wont want to hear that theres no water in the mine and soon you would have to drown through water it would get it over your knees and. The horses would have to pull through to homeowners from there and then they would be laid to mouthfuls for a track sometimes when theyd run out of traffic people here name were you know anywhere. Theres nothing for him today and there have been all the young pay for the turning to. Alcohol. And. If someone would have a state and. Say our government would get interested in this place this party can tell you i think we can. These young people could make it but if they dont im there every day. For dos in this say. This or pop. Eight point seven debbie m. T. V. To downtown weisberg this is johnson brains in arcade until ten oclock tonight so im talking to some of the best music of two thousand and thirteen right now playing the song but all. Is holding its own proof. In one thousand nine hundred i was the first woman to work in this one particular mine and my job was what they called the belt boy and then they started calling me the belt person because i was a female so when i would go into ground everybody would be kind of gathered to see the. Woman coming out of the mines you know and then i remember my face would be all black with the coal dust and i was a little bit vain so i would have a handkerchief and i would wipe my face off before i would come outside so it be all cleaned. So that it but the guys would always be looking for me to come out because it was just so amazing i guess to them to see a Woman Working in the mines. Its all true. More and more manalo no. I remember when i was in high school i loved Earth Science i love the mountains of anything he was brocks and my Earth Science teacher back then said theres going to be eight hundred years of coal and when he said that thats when things were good you know where everybody was working like the guys that worked in the mines they always had the nice cars like the camero i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and its happened its happened. We now know. That it is what. I am and its time to check. It out. Now. Im max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is fun its a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. Thats right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and were just adding more and more to the. Totally destabilize the Global Economy you need to protect yourself and get in for gods guys are. Good politicians to. Put themselves on the line big get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president and. Want to be. The two going to be press thats what before three in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters of our. First. Runs up the up close to the best out of the jewels with. The concepts those paying to perform i have a cheaper pass myself to die i. Dont know said hed what to say trust when it. Was not so. You will know it was snowing and home will start turning. Her cause. The sun to close. She had the goods sold on. So well see of getting. More traditionally if it was that he could with out west if not yet more here to depreciate so i thought of shift education and all that a couple. B. S. Ive heard it. Was. I was. Looking for the past from. The class struggle still believe. Maybe in those. Terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the empire. That you came phatic only. Nobodys ever found on. Your waist in your town they are. Very evil people you know they do things to families. They do things to the young and. As you say if you notice in season in the never never seen it. All kentucky county its hardly and produce the most cold at a time in which most of what powered the United States came from kentucky. Today the thirty three active minds in harden employ less than two thousand. Some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. Laid off and left with nothing since the ninetys many laid off was for they dont see any other options in the fuel handouts in time unemployed man are the usual customers. Will Orange County was founded on co and theres a reason marin county was a deal its the reason. The. Baby is born care is why the if the best was Warren County as it didnt go in they got coal theres nothing else here we dont. Go to big cities we dont have factories we dont in the reason one of those guys because those are closed in the mountains we dont have the road boys in which the largest cement trails going to be in a day and that will go fifty years if the local mcdaniels already go down there peace joy and make it pay to. Work thats not open and deals. Voice. You can walk straight phaneuf removed if you did more to give you know you people goes both ways you will be. Very strong and move is good more for their bodies everywhere you home will. Continue as. If. You give a. Speech. Theres a scene and it was. Featured on. Graham was he was working to save these. Figures. And i dont know if youre going to be. As i dont use them in here and you know there were three and five years ago im going to be a ghost and. They were going oh well youre rich or they will be able to be all that so. When i went in the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around again and. I worked in a coma for five years and youre going to hear surface. Why youre here to. Make it two hours and thirteen cents an hour rusty it was insane is that how much around in the world. Are very good. Years not as much money in the. One my doing here i just got out of jail like. Possession of stolen property. Im not good. Jails jail. As of. Now good. Pages three times a day. For. All those. Get. Way. Below. This where i was teenager smears and jills he screamed this is through the roof is places really in the story carry a pistol in us that twelve year old enough carried one ever see its the steel. Ive learned way let. Us tell him that we treat. Them. So. We. Have the gun guy here the pawn shop here for the past five years we take everything from you know d. V. D. s to. Boat motors or whatever you want imagine we have some motorcycles smoking the Mining Equipment like you say say we would take a lot of that stuff you would sell a four hundred dollar mining helmet maybe once a week the lights daily but the fact of the mining mines are shutting down makes it difficult to sell that stuff because these were so these were being sold to personal miners for their own use theyre not in mining anymore course theyre not buying it. Like mine. For years. Where all of them are very accounting. Ever. In the states is tough today its hard to see any traces have determined past their once made hard and not tory. County is still. Mostly dry and once one for years people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs harm their rights to trust pain killers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners. Now escape from the emptiness. Theres a lot of people here thats a big tree and are. Very said as and. Pretty much anything that makes me feel better and they think it makes them feel better i mean we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. And maybe not just from drug users but that is a problem you know its a guinness desperation to try to get some money to maintain a habit you know and i think since all this you know the mining and depression of the mining everything its caused. A rise in pills. Its the pills or the new alcohol. That youre talking about the fortys in the. Fortys and fiftys. So in the fiftys when we made moves. Here in december we picked cocoa berries but the race well be able to hope for as we carry it for yourself for valor again. The black berries will go to order again we get a lift you know all. Muddy from there to close and some food for the other. Mostly what would love for in the food is corn well lower. So we will go a bit there will be withheld food yeah. It was a real flat. In the beginning and i would only have to take a few of the last of it towards the end of. The state. If im to be in the in to the and they go for the race. To the ones in jail. Now one of them did you know are they to know or are they ever the job to go home. And show all the poor was the first that there was a. Certain advantage. In power for. Its own work. I want the same road so this under a bush tally walked three decades ago and words from the opening paragraph to his book come to my mind. It was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to Harlan County i was in the winding road from harlan to our birds driving a borrowed pickup truck when i began to notice the road kill it was a dangerous road with more than its share of adventurous drivers and it was getting dark. I began to think of the many ways in which there was a presence in this land that any most their road accidents and of course the corn mines beyond and black lung. 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