(Part 1) An Appalachian Coal Miner From West Virginia: Mine Disasters, Strikes and More

An Appalachian Coal Miner From Days Gone By in West Virginia: Mine Disasters, Strikes and More in This Interview
One of the highlights of my time learning and sharing Appalachian history is this interview with Dewey Hardy. I've known Dewey essentially my whole life as we attended to the same church and I went to high school with his son Max. It is amazing what you can learn about someone, even a person you think you know a lot about, if you spend an hour talking to them about their life.

Dewey was born and raised in McDowell County, West Virginia, and discusses his early life, his start in coal mining in the 1950s, and his experiences with mine disasters and union strikes in this video. I broke the video up in segments due to the length of the interview. This first segment should give you a good start in learning a little about life growing up in a coal mining town in Southern West Virginia. I will post the rest in the future.

I hope you enjoy watching these segments as much as I enjoyed talking to Dewey. - Shane

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