Download or read book Coal Dust Is White written by Irwin Sagenkahn and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1890 when two boys stand on a steamship deck and stare in awe at the New York City skyline. Simon Walsh is traveling with his parents, Josiah and Sarah, to Chicago, where his father plans to help operate a family grocery store. Steven Richards is journeying with his sister, Martha, and his parents, John and Elizabeth, to Coal City, Pennsylvania, where his father plans to work in the coal mines. As the steamship docks and the families share a tearful farewell, Simon and Steven can barely contain their excitement. Their new life in America has just begun. After the Richards family arrives in Coal City, they soon wonder if they have made the right decision. They settle into a filthy house, where life proves to be more of a struggle than they ever imaginedand apparently, they are not alone. As Elizabeth exchanges letters with Sarah she discovers that the Walsh family is undergoing hardships as well. But when John perishes in a cave-in, Elizabeth cuts off communication with the Walsh family, leaving everyone to wonder if the two families will ever reunite again. Coal Dust Is White follows three generations of two brave families who arrive in America with lofty dreams and soon learn through forgiveness and atonement that it is always better to do the right thing.
Download or read book Momentary Heating of Inflammable Coal Dusts written by Guy B. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Dust Dreamer written by Jim Dorris and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal Dust Dreamer By Jim Dorris with Photos by Velma L. Dorris In Coal Dust Dreamer, author Jim Dorris is able to captivate readers with his experiences in Western Kentucky during the late 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s. By examining his thoughts and feelings through poetic and photographic snapshots, Dorris gives readers the opportunity to imagine a simpler time. Nostalgia is a present theme throughout this book, especially within the photographs, which were all taken by the author’s mother. Although a unique phenomenon at the time, Dorris’ mother captured life through taking photographs and developing them for future generations. Dorris has used these photographs and his poetry throughout Coal Dust Dreamer, hoping that readers will rediscover a part of their past, whether or not they were reared in Kentucky.
Download or read book Soul Full of Coal Dust written by Chris Hamby and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced Congress to enact long-overdue legislation designed to virtually eradicate black lung disease and provide fair compensation to coal miners stricken with the illness. Today, however, both promises remain unfulfilled. Levels of disease have surged, the old scourge has taken an aggressive new form, and ailing miners and widows have been left behind by a dizzying legal system, denied even modest payments and medical care. In this devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby traces the unforgettable story of how these trends converge in the lives of two men: Gary Fox, a black lung-stricken West Virginia coal miner determined to raise his family from poverty, and John Cline, an idealistic carpenter and rural medical clinic worker who becomes a lawyer in his fifties. Opposing them are the lawyers at the coal industry’s go-to law firm; well-credentialed doctors who often weigh in for the defense, including a group of radiologists at Johns Hopkins; and Gary’s former employer, Massey Energy, the region’s largest coal company, run by a cantankerous CEO often portrayed in the media as a dark lord of the coalfields. On the line in Gary and John’s longshot legal battle are fundamental principles of fairness and justice, with consequences for miners and their loved ones throughout the nation. Taking readers inside courtrooms, hospitals, homes tucked in Appalachian hollows, and dusty mine tunnels, Hamby exposes how coal companies have not only continually flouted a law meant to protect miners from deadly amounts of dust but also enlisted well-credentialed doctors and lawyers to help systematically deny much-needed benefits to miners. The result is a legal and medical thriller that brilliantly illuminates how a band of laborers — aided by a small group of lawyers, doctors and lay advocates, often working out of their homes or in rural clinics and tiny offices – challenged one of the world's most powerful forces, Big Coal, and won. A deeply troubling yet ultimately triumphant work, Soul Full of Coal Dust is a necessary and timely book about injustice and resistance.
Download or read book Coal Mining written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Frock Coals Dust written by Lincoln Depradine and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Explosion Tests of Pittsburgh Coal Dust in the Experimental Mine 1925 to 1932 Inclusive written by George Samuel Rice and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extracting Appalachia written by Geoffrey L. Buckley and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a function of its corporate duties, the Consolidation Coal Company had photographers take hundreds of pictures of nearly every facet of its operations. Here, geographer Geoffrey L. Buckley examines the company's photograph collection housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Download or read book Subsidence Due to Coal Mining in Illinois written by Charles Arthur Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Informational Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Informational Report written by United States. Mine Safety and Health Administration and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions written by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 19 and 22 contain a Catalogue of institute library, separately paged.
Download or read book Report of the Proceedings of the Flameless Explosives Committee written by A. C. Kayll and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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