WANT TO GO? Beamish, The Living Museum of the North INFO: Check the website www.beamish.org.uk/ for detailed instructions on how to get to the museum from a variety of locations. From London, take the train from Kings Cross and get off at Durham. The trip is about 2 1/ 2 hours. The 128 bus provides a direct link from the Durham City Center. Buses run hourly and can be caught near the train station. Theres also information on the general website about where to stay and what hotels are in the area. HOURS: Open during the summer season seven days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. TICKETS: Prices vary, and to get the cheapest tickets, book well in advance. Tickets the day before can run quite high and the cheapest return tickets (to and from Durham) run around 110 pounds ($175). Single tickets run ...
OWENSBORO, Ky. - A new exhibit at the Owensboro Museum of Science and History gives visitors a glimpse of an underground coal mine. It's one of two new permanent exhibitions at the museum in Western Kentucky.
Early in the last century, nearly 15,000 people lived along a 15- mile stretch of Winding Gulf Creek, where an army of miners toiled in the surrounding hillsides, producing up to 20 million tons of high-quality coal a year from five major seams. Some of the world's best coal for steelmaking is still being produced here, along the Raleigh-Wyoming County border, in a few large mines. But only a handful of the nearly 50 coal camps that once lined the creek remain standing and occupied.
From its name to its centennial celebration, Export's ties with the coal industry have withstood 100 years of history. A coal mining documentary film and a mining memorabilia display will kick off the borough's centennial festivities Saturday.
A Range Resources spokesman denies responsibility for [Ron Gulla]'s water troubles, and parts of the dispute are being played out in the courts. As for the royalty checks? "I don't care if this place was making $5 million. I'm concerned about my health," says Gulla, who lives with his wife and two young children. "I wake up at 2 o'clock almost every morning just thinking: Why did I trust these people?' We're creating the next generation of robber barons," says [Lisa Graves-Marcucci], a staffer with the Environmental Integrity Project who herself has been approached by land men. She's an area native whose outlook is informed by coal-mining's history of subsidence and acid mine drainage. "We sure don't want to get another legacy wrong for another generation. DEP, he says, is "greatly un...
TOLUCA - Some people call slag piles Illinois' mountains. Jutting up here and there, they dot the landscape, rising high above the flat farmland and towns that surround them.
The Capital-Journal BURLINGAME -- Just six years after first opening its doors, the Burlingame Schuyler Museum has rooms filled with historic artifacts covering everything from the area's coal-mining history to daily household life.
If you are interested in the history of coal mining, you might want to visit an exhibit, "The Darkest Month," at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. The exhibit commemorates the 100th anniversary of the worst month in U.S. coal mining history - December 1907.
CHARLESTON, W.Va., Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) was filling in for EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson when he delivered the keynote remarks at the opening session of the U.S. EPA's 2011 Environmental Justice Conference which began in Detroit yesterday. In his address, Congressman Conyers called for the coal mining industry to be shut down in the state (West Virginia) and for the millions of those who rely on coal jobs there to find alternative employment. The Congressman went on to say that "clean coal doesn't exist," and described the history of coal mining in West Virginia as, "one of the sorriest reports you'll ever see. Given the actions of this Administration's EPA, it is no surprise that one of the longest serving members of Congress ...
I am amazed after visiting the State Museum at the Culture Center for the first time since its $17 million facelift. As a taxpayer, an oral historian and a former employee at the Department of Culture and History, I was curious about how a state exhibit on coal mining might read, or sound, in a state as friendly to coal as ours. I went with my friend Wess Harris, a former coal miner and scrutinizer of public information - or lack of it - related to the story of coal mining. Harris is a devoted member of the United Mine Workers and passionately committed to public education on rank-and- file labor history, especially the Battle of Blair Mountain. He facilitated publication of When Miners March by W.C. Blizzard, son of the legendary Bill Blizzard, leader of the march.
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