one fact. that. it's him in december 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 dishpan of twenty years back and forth from the mining areas the beast and kentucky the book by a time in school or. is

a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle words to round mining of coal when amy grant's words come to you harry out to work well paid off and has faded jobs the book tells the story of harlan county that's where i'm going. to pop. own. land.

i'm headed to the depot mary kom. i want to see what's left of the. three 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 hard i find it on a city where people are stuck like car turns from black and white picture their stories and there. have not changed much from those recorded by pushed. 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 is. worth. in their place now. but. even. it's. great. writing our summer fall when.

i got married when. i was sixteen years out and my husband was seventeen years old and lead me in myriad about six months and he went into the mountains and then six months after that dad and i went to korea accident. i had a two week old son. lady who lived down the street here only. killed. vertebra that he would hit really. low. where no. company wanted to poll real that's georgia said also that helped cole ready for the christmas they would in their you know we. shot the whole world you'll get done it was done

by a dad that walt. wrote keothavong if. you know it much. to tell the pope that locket went through so it. shielded. that even if you think you're right i would say oh. she's there. any other. 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 they're not had for the glory of collective struggle and hard work paid off. speaking to the local scene barson saloons you can see that their life was and still is mine

mine's harder now. their relief their collective legend and whether played a part where said with pride it's their survival first words disappearing before day i ask. for the rose parade. in their stride brand is a bit of a work first year a disco and she'll but first you have like one sixty of them. so. it was work and i got there as my grandpa. six local solicitor. but maybe you mean you. will. never lady may add. he

always had police because you know now we've made the life that you'll say. through. the water in the man's name would have to drown through water it would get it over your knees and. the horses would have to pull through the moon and then they would be laid to bow foliage 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 it were some one would have a state and. say our government would get interested in this place this article to . thank. these young people could make it better if they know their neighbor day. they say you know.

this or pop. eight point seven downtown weissberg this is something bring in sin 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. being. proved. 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 bell 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 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 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. for its own troops. 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. it out.

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want to go to look for the past from. the class struggle still going on maybe no one. terms of the unions but for instance right now in terms of the empire . that you came out of really. nobody's ever found me and. you're wasting your time and they are. very evil people you know they do things to the families. they do things to the

young and the. if you notice in season in big that you never see a big. thing. all kentucky county is hardly and produce the most code at a time in which most of what powered the united states came from kentucky. today the thirty three active mines in harlan employ less than two thousand. some of deals mines have even been converted into museums. laid off left with nothing since the ninety's manny laid off for they don't see any other options thirteen the fuel handouts in time on employed and our customers

swell tarrant county was founded on coal and there's already a harem coming with a story. that is hard and can't is why they. basically as well aren't any of the building code and they got coal there's nothing else here we don't have the luxury of the cities we don't have factories you don't in your resume not a sales associate in the mountains who don't have the road boys and it's hard to say a mantra it's going to get me in a day and that. i go flip hamburgers at the local mcdonald's or i go down here peace joy and make pizza. that's now don't pay my bills over horribly least. you can walk straight fanny's honeymooners if you did more to give people goes both ways your so be. very strong and numerous give more for their

bodies everywhere you home. will. end in your day. i'll give it a man is the. person sooner and it will go to teacher and i'll. call my uncles that were good examples or if we're going to save these now stack it in a few years. and they tell me to give to god will not be coming out of the one i'm going to. if i don't because i'm in here and you know that jan four years ago i'm going to be goes down. the road where nobody here really rich or poor people growth rates are below. zero we're now in the home. i was eighteen years old it was around me and i. worked in a coma for five years and every two years service my. way here and. my two

hours and thirty cents an hour bus to it and since then how my town anymore. are very few. years not as much money in the time. when my doing here i just got out of jail my. possession of stolen property. i'm not good. jails jail. as. i feed you three times a day. for. l.s.d. . i don't. all those things you.

hear with me. you know uptown. i was a teenager smith and jones who screamed through the roof places through. the store to carry a pistol when i was. twelve year old enough carried would never see a steel. learned way down oh i. just tell him that way.

the pawn shop here for the past by the way 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 shut down makes it difficult to sell that stuff because it is worse 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. all of them are very accounting. ever. in the states is tough today it's hard to see any traces have deterred past their

once made hard in the tories. the county is still mostly dry and once one for a year people used to make moonshine knowledge drugs are on the rice a trust painkillers prescribed by doctors to treat danger and six miners now i'll ask a problem. there's a lot of people here this is a big reaction or a. nurse said yes and. very much any of them 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. 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 all 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 inch in the. forty's and fifty's. so in the fifty's well we made. here in december we'd be cocoa berries but the 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 food for them we're. mostly what with troy in the food was cold and. lowered. so we would go a bit there will be we're also. flat. in the beginning that we don't have to take a few we wanted them last towards the end of. the state.

found its. way before they switched. to the ones in jail. and went for a feed you know and they have it fails now or and. the jobs are gone and. shot him down all the coal mines are said i'd. live to. live. in a van with people. in poverty. it's no more. i walk the same road sunday sound tiny walk to three dead. and works from the opening . after his book come to my mind. it was nineteen eighty eight my fifth visit to harlan county i was on 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 that was a presence in this land that anymore the road accidents and of course the corn mines beyond. returning to new york living behind harlan in an endless rain. i try to put together the pieces sober remote who are to i only get a glimpse off. i almost wonder where all that energy came from. the energy that lights up the luxury so. there was will leave the his whole bar is were. heard is the little girl's grave.

all. your daddy plays doll away where you never could live with. all they don't go to them on. madre would. come true. oh oh daddy dear daddy please don't go away. with. the. lid down south down there where they. claim to know all. he was

gone for. now no. he. didn't steal them we used the phone and. with this manufactured incentive still public will. when the

remain close to some project. with the crime and. listen to the woman. who ignore middle of the room signals. the real news is. be global economy's been dead since two thousand and eight and through the transfusion of a lot of money has been animated and kept alive it looks like something was going on there but now those transfusions of cash are ending because interest rates are going to start ticking up so now the rotten stinking corpse of the global economy is going to start smelling really bad people are going to start bailing out of stocks technology stocks housing stocks. semiconductor stocks yeah right they're just like sell sell sell sell sell sell sell and then of course you could have

market down twenty thirty forty fifty sixty percent. even. just to keep us i live the good feel confident. leader. we have many things in this world and this isn't you know for everyone why some people take our things all the power just for themselves and to do this thing rather than human.

ah i. thank you but i know because. i was up. i. must. come to. live donald trump so national security adviser john bolton says the u.s. does not want to harm allies the trade with iran and a sign that washington could be willing to ease sanctions.