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you keep. that. i mean. it's him in the summer morning and i'm on a bus headed down south from chinatown new york there breathless driver speeds up on the ice who really. am traveling across the states in a snowstorm because of that book. written over despair of twenty years back and forth from the mining areas to be stunned kentucky the book by italians called our place. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle of the words
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the deeper the mary come out of this book i want to see what's 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 a city where people are stuck like car turns from 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. with. well we really don't know what. they. would have been in thirty.
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and lead me in myriad about six months and he went into the mountains in six months after that dad and i want to call 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 that's georgia set off for the coal ready for the christmas they wanted him there and we. shot the whole field but done it was done it went back to that old wallet i wrote killed of me if. you know it much. to tell the folks
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that look at it one through two it. shielded. a face to see i would say oh. i. see you. i. i find remnants of the mining history older memories of the casualties and the hard labor are alive in the stories told by the young and the like they're not had for the glory of collective struggle and hard work paid off. speaking to the local scene dusty barson saloons he can see that their life was and still is mine mine is hard their narrative. their collective legend and whether played
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a part where said when try to steer survive the war right disappearing before day i ask for the rose parade rest. in their stride branded a bit of a work first see a racist god shield but first you have like i went six of them at meyers grill. it was work and i got there as my grandpa grabbed the six awful sweater. but maybe you mean you don't want the only blood. will. go. in every lady made home a and. e. always had peace because you know now with dates the life that you'll say you.
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drew. you won't talk you into the 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 like to mouthfuls for tracks sometimes when they'd run out of traffic people here named were you know anywhere. there's nothing for him today and there have been all the young papers the turning to see after this and. if it was someone would have to stay and say or. our government would get
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on this are pop. eight point seven deadly m.t.v. to downtown weisberg this is johnson brains in arcade until ten o'clock tonight so i'm talking to some of the best music of two thousand and thirteen playing the song but all. is holding its all. in one nine hundred eighty and 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 this woman coming out of the. lines you know and then i remember my face will be
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all black but the coldest since 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. it's all true. for manalo now. i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains of anything he was brock's and my earth science teacher back then said there's going
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to be eight hundred years of coal and when he said that that's 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 it's happened it's happened. we. did what. now and it's time to chair. a load of. thing.
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all to see we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and you're back to been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that weighting spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will call him that throws or three. thousand the joke was only here i called rochelle. nice dry. left left left more left ok stuff that's really good.
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don't know said he'd what i'm so sorry to trust when i stooped. to get warm to snow in the home of stone tariana amateur. squinty was. if he had a good suit on. so we'll see him getting. one of. those that he could with us if. yes. depletion. tied to finishing a couple so kind of toilet b.s. get in the. lab.
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i went through code looking for the past from. the plane struggles to believe or maybe both. terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the empire. that you claimed that it only. nobody's ever found to go get me. you're wasting your tan they were. very evil people you know they do things to fame days. they do things to the young and the. opposites and if you notice in season in they never seem to. be. all kentucky
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county it's 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 harlan employ less than two thousand. some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off and left with nothing since the ninety's many leave off was for they don't see any other options in the fuel handouts in time unemployed man are the usual customers. will orange county was founded on coal and there's a reason marin county was feeling that's the reason. babies are in care is why if the base is war and any of you don't go in they get coal there's nothing
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else here we don't pay oh no life to the seas we don't have factories we don't in the reason one of those guys the souls of those in the mountains we don't know the road boys in which we are just their mantra is going to be in a nail in the world. i go flip hamburgers it welcome it down is when i go down here peace joy pizza. and ideals. you can find easily if you need more to give you know people goes both ways you should be. very strong and give more for buys every way home. will. be given. the majesty. has some. good. feature.
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graham is working to save the fact that if. he and i don't know if you're going to be coming out of what i'm doing. if i don't because i'm in here and you know they're. going to go fine. it will be nobody here rich or they will be all that so. when i was in the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around and asked i worked in the coal mine and for five years underground until your surface from. my head to thirty cents an hour rusty it was and says that how much around in the world. kids are very good. there's not as much money in the.
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one my doing here i just got out of jail like. possession of stolen property. i'm not good. jails jail. has. it's not really the. sound. that feeds you three times a day. it will pay for t.v. . knowledge to. me all those things you. need to leave here with me. no. good. way. below. this where i was teenager smith and jones he
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screamed this is through the roof his places are in and the story carried a pistol in us best way of hero enough carried one ever see a steel care therefore i learned later. still that we meet. 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. moat motors or whatever you want imagine we have some motorcycles smoking the mining equipment like you say say we would take
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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 it is worse these were being sold to personal miners for their own use and they're not in mining anymore force they're not. all of them are very counting. ever. in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces of the turbulent past their once made hard in the tories. the county is still mostly dry and once one for years people used to make moonshine now drugs are the rice trust painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger in six miners now
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i'll ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of people here this is a big tradition or a. very upset. very much any of that there makes me feel better and they think makes them feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. in maybe not just from drug users but that is a problem and i say again it's just braziers right to get some money to maintain a habit you know and i think since all this you know all the mining and depression of the mining everything it's caused. a rise in pills. it's the pills are the new alcohol. you're talking about the forty. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made blue shirts only a. year and a silver
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a week because. whereas we carry it for yourself or dollar. blackberries we always go to order again but we get a list. movie from the. close of some truth for the weirder. mostly what with four in the food. lol. so. with all. the in. the in the beginning and no end to today the feeling of the illness beyond the indoors the end of the if found its way in the air to say i am before they switch to the ones in jail. now one of them did you know are they there was an hour
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a day every the job coleman. and showed him where all the coal was if. 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 have 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 the day and the most the road accidents and of course the
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corn mines guns and black lung. returning to new york leaving behind harlan in amanda this rain. i tried to put together the pieces sober remotes were to i only got a glimpse of. i almost wonder where all that energy came from. the energy that lights up. there was leaving his whole door is worth what hurt is the little girl's grave. all your daddy plays golf away. with. all they don't go to the mom. madre would. come
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to snow in homo stuff how do you know that her. scanty clothes. if he had a good. soul. was that he could with. yes get more care to make sure. their. toilet p.s.k. . up. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who have it to mean to people this is the simple song alone even some company gets elsewhere they can find private companies to take over the utilities
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anybody else throw. a laxness you guys to go along the pier might be cool. i've been this is. just to quote them out. for you bill if bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more and more it's about to hurt and the redistribution of all it was to this. date downwards if you want. thank you. so much has.
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