Summary
I am amazed after visiting the State Museum at the Culture Center for the first time since its $17 million facelift. As a taxpayer, an oral historian and a former employee at the Department of Culture and History, I was curious about how a state exhibit on coal mining might read, or sound, in a state as friendly to coal as ours.
I went with my friend Wess Harris, a former coal miner and scrutinizer of public information - or lack of it - related to the story of coal mining. Harris is a devoted member of the United Mine Workers and passionately committed to public education on rank-and- file labor history, especially the Battle of Blair Mountain. He facilitated publication of When Miners March by W.C. Blizzard, son of the legendary Bill Blizzard, leader of the march.See the full content of this document
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State History, Revised
Harris agreed to give me a "Truth Tour" of the coal exhibit, which he offers to any interested individual or group.
But before we could get to the coal hall in the museum we had to pass a panel on sla...See the full content of this document
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