it's him in december morning and i'm on a bus headed down south from chinatown new york there breathless driver speeds help from the ice who really. am 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 a time in school or. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle words bale's to round mining of coal when any grounds would come to you harry out to work well paid off and his faded jobs the book tells the story of harlan county

that's where i'm going. this for papa. land. i'm headed to the depot mary. i want to see what's left to die ward thirty years since his first visit now that the u.s. is shifting. two 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 harness i find it on a city where people are stuck in my car turner said in black and white picture their stories and there were pieces have not changed much from those recorded by push scales research and today are leading me in this journey friends i've gathered for. music. well when i really don't know what. they go in the back or. banging backs the back woods person goes up meaning thirty. plus at least to italy. to the. drove there. were. no longer.

then i was from the syrian troops. but i am brand they from there now it's. like i like appalachian man but playbook out of appalachia mail me to the beat. it's. very. low grade. writing or summer fall. i shall. i got married when i was sixteen years old and my husband was seventeen years old and that lead me in myriad about six months when he went into the mountains in six . thank you know that dalin and i went to the. two week old son.

lady who lived down the street here only. killed. berta but you know what it really. where no. company wants to cold real it's gorgeous it also helps coal ready for the christmas they would in their. suck the whole world you put stuff on. that wall it. killed it missed. you know it much. too through the boat so much it was through to it that. shielded. fairly.

soon. i find remnants of the mining history all over memories of the casualties in 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 locals barson saloons he conceded their life was and still is mine mine is hard their narrative their collective legend and whether played a part where said with pride. their survival of the word disappearing before day i see. well the rose parade rest. their sparse

rant is a bit of a work first year raises gunshy of but first we have like i mean sixty of them at meyers grove so. it was work and i got them as my grandpa grandma a six awful sweater. but maybe three people. will. go. in every lady made home a add a chair he always had peace because you know now we've faced a life that you'll say.

you're going through. you won't want to bring you into the water in the monsoon you would have to drive through water it would get it over your knees and. the horses would have to pull through the moon and then they would lay to balfour's 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 pay for the turning to. alcohol. and. if someone would from napa stay and say our government would get interested in this place this part of can attack you i think we can. and these young people could make it but if they. no i'm there

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to downtown weisberg this is johnson bringing in sin arcade until ten o'clock tonight so we're talking with some of the best music of two thousand and thirteen playing the song but all. is holding its all. in one nine hundred eighty eight 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 underground 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 all black with 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 would be all clean. so that it but the guys will 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 no. i remember when i was in high school i loved earth science i love the mountains all of anything he was brock's and my earth science teacher back then said there's going 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 a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. we. tried it is what. and it's time to check. it out. thing.

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a broken arm part of my build a team. for the success their real names are at now david field the confidence right now and that they can roll away. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it mean only the death penalty just because they think that's a fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found dennison the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and the is just no way to present and that we were even many of the times. families want the death penalty to be

a molar the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite you know we've been through this this isn't the way. i want to for the code is looking for the past from. the press trouble still going over the maybe you know the. terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of your bar. that you came out of the holy. nobody's ever filed to go get me and and your waist in your town they are.

very evil people you know they do things to the fame ease and they do things to the young and. up close here if you notice he sees. me notice him fish. of my. own kentucky county it's hard learned produce the most coal at a time in which most of what power do united states came from kentucky. today the thirty three active minds in harlan employ less than the house of. some of deals minds have even been converted into museums. laid off left with nothing since the ninety's many laid off was for they don't see any other

options in the fuel handouts in time on employed man are they usually customers swill orange county was founded on coal and there's a reason marin county was feeling that's the reason. that is hard and can't is why the if they squeeze welfare and get me into the building code and they get coal there's nothing else here we don't have the luxury of the cities we don't have factories we don't and the reason not is because those are closed in the mountains we don't have the road boys in which largess a mantra is going to get me in a day and that. i go for the hamburgers at the local madonnas or i go down here peace joy may pay to. work that's now don't pay my bills over horrors real boom voices. you can walk straight fanny's honeymoon if you did more to get run over

people goes both ways your use of being. a woman story very strong and numerous give more for their bodies every way home. will. continue these days i'll give it leave the man is the only. person who are in good company go to fiji and i'll. call my uncles it will go down because it is working to save the city now the fact it is yours. and they tell me to get your guns will not be coming out of me what i'm going to do is i don't because i'm in here and you know other than four years ago i'm going to go spend. to the well where nobody here really rich or people big. so. when i when the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around at. work to go

minds for five years and every two years service from. the waiter here. my two hours and thirty cents an hour rusty it was insane is that how much and it will. be absorbed very do. not as much money in the time. line my doing here i just got out of jail my. possession of stolen property. i'm not here. jails jail. as of. now good. feature three times a day. it will. be for. l.a.

stuff. all those things you. need you. here with me. you know. where i was teenager smith or jones he screamed this is through the roof these places really oh and the story carried a pistol on us. enough carried will never see a steel. learned. oh i. must tell him that one. we.

heard from 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 to madge and we have some motorcycles smoking the mining equipment like us 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 they're not in mining anymore course they're not buying it. like mine. here. where all of them are very counting. every.

in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces of the turbulent past there once made harlan the tories. the county is still mostly dry and once one for years people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs are in the rice a cursed painkillers prescribe by doctors to treat danger and six miners now ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of people here this is a big region or out. there he said yes' and. in three minutes anything there makes me feel better and are they going to make him feel better. we have a lot. problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. and maybe not just from drug users but that is a problem and i say again it's 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 it's caused. a rising pills. it's the pills are the new alcohol. you're talking about the forty's in the. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made so. here in december we pick up over a split race will be able to hope for as we carry in yourself forward our again. the black berries will we got a quarter again we get a lift you know all. muddy from there to close and some truth for them where they're. mostly what with troy and the food was cordoned. lowered. so they were going to be at there will be with the old so they.

left. and then begin and that would only have to take a few hours and they wanted them last monday towards the end of. the state. found its way in. and maybe before they switch. to the ones in jail. i want to see you know where they have to sales now or have your jobs are ground. shut him down now the coal mines are said. live to the mines as live in michigan and people. in poverty. itself 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 adventures drivers and it was getting dark. i began to think of the many ways in which that was a presence in this land that any most the road accidents and of course the corn mines beyond and black. returning to new york leaving behind harlan in the endless rain. i tried to put together the pieces sober remotes were to i only got a glimpse off. my own with wonder where all that energy came from.

the energy that lights up the luxury so. there was relieve the his whole for is worth what hurt is the little girl's grave. all daddy dear dad he plays golf ball way we never could live with. don't go to the. madre would have fun come true. oh oh daddy dear daddy plays a way where you have a good. lip down south down the way. claimed to know

all. he was done for. the. down. he. didn't steal or still be. the. only.

down. get a phone you know. what was the last time that you went on the internet no i'm not using to meet these village is it safe to dismiss. are you sure there is no actual music ters there and they are all going to be sure the baby does a class of his that is the. one who was going to support the woman who we thought. is dead as part of the photos if you can get. a. bit more worked out of this. previously

yes i know they are being false form where he is speaking to members of the society . let's have them. no. matter the tears he should be. one of the few more so if you be in luck because. the bus route. which i mean i well me and i got most of the fancy. stuff. which we. both got. on. to move.

them. away in the spirit. of them instead of instead of a watchman. coming from the. winter is that. can you. hear me. so that's most of. the.

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