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Sitting astride the 14-foot Great Vein of bituminous coal, the communities of the Hocking Valley Coalfield were inextricably linked to the fortunes of a 50-year

Born in Roanoke County, Virginia, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Richard L. Davis was an early mine labor organizer in Rendville, Ohio. One year a

The significance of this book is its uniqueness. First, the book contains a collection of fourteen chapters that capture the personal, professional, and histori

Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity—defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to ch

As early as 1755, explorers found coal deposits in Ohio's Hocking Valley. The industry that followed created towns and canals and established a new way of life.