The story illustrates the contrast between their past in the mountains and their uncertain future in the city. Keywords Appalachia, coal mining, family, transition, urban life, Cincinnati ...

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest ...

Kentucky is our roots, Kentucky is our home,” Marotta said. “This community, this state is so important to use, so being here ...

I was born in Appalachia. I am proud of my mountain heritage ... There is no safe way to mine coal. There is no clean way to mine, transport, burn and dispose of coal. Not now.

Home Funeral would become one of Shelby Lee Adams’ best-known portraits of Appalachian life ... or fall apart and green mountains crumble after years of coal mining. Coal dust feels omnipresent ...

Both men wooed West Virginia voters with the promise of more mining ... coal on price in many places. At the same time, the most accessible—and therefore ­cheapest—coal reserves in Appalachia ...

"The story of Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys reminds us of the importance of education, and the way dreams can lift us all," Mitchell Superintendent Joe Childs writes.