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Director: Appalachian Voices | Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
Benham and Lynch are nestled in Harlan County at the
foot of Black Maintain, Kentucky's highest peak.
Established as "coal camps" in 1911 and 1917
respectively, they were towns built to support the
coal mining operations of two corporations: the ...


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Director: Appalachian Voices | Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
"[Mountaintop removal coal mining would] wipe out a
large part of the southern end of the battlefield
that was occupied by the union miners." Blair
Mountain, West Virginia is the site of a 1921
battle in the West Virginia Mine Wars, the historic ...


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Director: Appalachian Voices | Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
"We don't live where they mine coal. They mine coal
where we live.... Our concern today is our homes,
our environment, and the sustainability of the
environment." Lorelei Scarbro's house in the little
community of Rock Creek, West Virginia is the same ...


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Director: Appalachian Voices | Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
Until the mid-twentieth century, Ansted, West
Virginia was a bustling coal camp. In 1950, the
coal company that operated the local mine pulled
out, leaving the community with a sense of economic
depression. In the years that followed, residents ...


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Director: Appalachian Voices | Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
"We are going to be the endangered species, " said
Daymon Morgan, resident of Huckleberry Ridge,
Kentucky. Morgan's woods are teeming with
bloodroot, as well as golden seal, ginseng and wild
ginger. Not too long ago, these native plants grew ...
YOU SEARCHED: Appalachian Voices
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