these dilapidated barracks will probably kaluta lansky for eight years to come. construction sites for abandoned by the dozen and left to rest and. housing construction began and the peak of the list is now nearly complete. occupied in part by survivors of the the neighborhood seems sadly empty. here and with the downturn in the economy. boil prices. i can still raise more money than i can back home. just. now as much as i used to. i consider myself fortunate because i still have a job as talk no friend just yesterday he got laid off so he's got to go back to louisiana to find find work. because there are not too many people hiring a. he. resists is harlan kentucky the. whole goal of this move the employees see it was going to st fanny's line won't. be in a coma any city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone although i was assured that there was a life threatening disease people are survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town