The Spirit of a Mining Town
Sierra Crane-Murdoch and I co-produced this story for World Vision Report. It aired on NPR member stations across the country during the week of February 19, 2010.
“Americans around the country are struggling through this recession. But in southern West Virginia, coal-mining communities have been living with economic downturn for decades…Discouraged by the dangers of mining and the lack of alternative jobs, many working-age people have moved away. In some towns, the elderly are the only ones who remain.
Sierra Crane-Murdoch reports from one town along the Coal River where more than a dozen older women raise their spirits with weekly dances.”
To stream the story, click here.
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