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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 a book. written over despair of twenty years back i'm forced from the mining areas to turn kentucky the book by a time in school or. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle of the words bills to round mining of coal when amy grants would come to the area to work well paid off and his faded jobs the book tells the story of harlan county that's where i'm going. to bury. this repast. own.

land. i'm headed to the deep the mary kom of this book i want to see what's left of the. thirty years since his first visit 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 it on a city where people are stuck like car turned 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. plus at least two if we. were through. no ma'am. but in their place now it's. like appalachian man but.

appalachian male even. it's. great. writing on a farm or fall where. 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 it's gorgeous at all for the coal ready for the christmas they wanted him there and we. shot the whole world you'll put down it was done back to that old wall it. killed it missed. you know it much. too three tell the boat that look at it one through till it. shielded. that even if you think i would sail. i. cared. for 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 barson saloons he conceded their life was and still is mine mine's harder now. relief their collective legend and whether played a part where sid would try to steer survive all the words disappearing before day i asked for the rose parade rest. in their stride branded a bit of a work first see a racist go on field but diversity of life when sixty of them at meyers grill. it was work and i got there as my grandpa grabbed the six awful sweater.

and let me bring in all. the new endeavor lady made home and at it. he always had peace because you know now we've made the life that you'll say. you're going through. everything. you won't want to hear that there's 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 the

opponents from there 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 to day and there have been all the young pay for the turning to see after this and. if it were some one would have a state and. say our government would get interested in this place this part of kentucky think we. could make it but if they don't. never day. out for dos in this say you know there's.

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is holding its own groove. 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 bell person because i was a female so when i would go underground everybody would be kind of gathered to see this. women coming out of the mines you know and then i remember my face will be 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 would be all clean. 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 bullying for 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 and 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. now and it's time to check. a load of things. now. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the past and

shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. whether they have to see should you go to war the people suffer to be in love because. the bus or. the scream i want to meet are well me and nothing. but the fantasy. both of. whom i was was a. jumble of who moved to. the school of.

the. only industry in general in the prisons as he said oh well what's musical. come of this from the. winter with him and oh is that. and there have no you moved can you. hear michel i . him and i should have missed him. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race and of his on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to

resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i was a true true blue for the past from. the class struggle still believe. may be in those. terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the empire . that you came to me holy. nobody's ever found you go get me on the and you're wasting your time and they've ruined very evil people you know they do things to fame these and they

do things to the young and the. officer if you notice even sees him in the never never standing. with the. all kentucky county it's hard learned produce the most coal and the time in which most of what power do united states came from kentucky. today the thirty three active mines in harlan employ less than thomson. some of deals minds have even been converted. two museums. laid off left with nothing since the ninety's manny laid off was for they don't see any other options in the field now it's in time on employed man are they usually

customers swill tarrant county was founded on co and there's a reason harris county was bill 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 monday is because the sales are closed in the mountains and we don't have the roadways in which large assume an interest in me and in a way in that. i go for the papers at the local mcdonalds or i go down here peace joy may pay to. well that's not something i'm deals over horrors boom boom boys. you could walk straight fanny's any moment if you did more to get run over people goes both ways your years of being. in the film and story very strong and numerous

give more for their bodies everywhere you home. will. continue to be i'll give you the lead in the man is the only. person sooner and you get to go do teach yourself. you know my uncles were good examples of this work and to save these now stranded in years and years. and make a lot of good to go will not be a thing out of me what i'm doing. is i don't because i'm in here and you know other than four years ago i'm going to go spend. to they were going to live here but really rich or poor people growth rates are below six so. when i went in the home i was eighteen years old it was around me and that. worked in a coma for five years underground two years service. waiter here

and. my two hours and thirty cents an hour rusty it was insensitive how much around anymore . it was our very do. not as much money in the town. when my doing here i just got out of jail my. possession of stolen property. i'm not good. jails jail. as. a feature three times a day. for t.v. . l.s.d. . i don't. all those things you.

need you. here with me. so. you know of. this i was a teenager smithy jills he screamed this is through the roof these places really oh and the story carried a pistol on us. enough carried when it was see us in the steel. wool i've learned by now. just tell. me.

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 smothered in 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 shut 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 accounting. ever. 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 was one for years people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs are in the rice a trust painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners now i'll ask a prime d'antin yes. there's a lot of people here this is a big fish and or a. nurse said yes' and. in three minutes any day they're making you feel better and they think makes them feel better. we have a lot of problems with items that are coming in that are stolen. 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 or the new alcohol. you're talking about the forty's in the. forty's and fifty's yeah. so in the fifty's well we made. here in december we picked cocoa berries black berry so we'll be able to hope for as we carry it for yourself forward our again. the black berries will we got a quarter again we get a list you know all. muddy from there to close and some food for them where they're . mostly what with troy in the food was corn meal lower. so they would go if it they'll be with the old so yes. flat. in the beginning i

would only have to take a few back and they wanted them last monday towards the end of maryland state. family and. maybe before they switched. to the ones in jail that. i went through my feed you know and they hand it to sales now and i have with the jobs around coal mines. shut him down now the coal mines are said. live to the mines is a lifetime in nature and a band of people. in poverty. it's no more. i walk the same road sign a sound or a push tiny walk trade that could help. 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 core mines deion's and black. returning to new york leaving behind harlan in the end of this range. 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. there was leaving

his home for is worth what hurt is the little girl's grave. oh daddy dear dad he plays don't go away where you have a good. don't go to the. bar dream. on come true. oh oh daddy dear daddy plays doll a way where you have a good. lick down south down the way. claim to know all my friends. he was.

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