Anthracite Roots: Generations of Coal Mining in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

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The lives of coal miners in the USA, like the black rock they cut from the earth, are wrought by the forces of time and pressure. Risking crippling injury and death, generations of miners have tunneled down from the surface and emerged at the end of every exhausting day with the fuel needed to drive the nation’s industry. Their sacrifices are great, their glories unheralded.

With this stirring account, creator and former coal miner Joseph W. Leonard III provides a means for understanding and fully appreciating the the most important work these brave men have done all through the years. The mining tradition in Leonard’s circle of relatives spans five generations in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, home to a few of our country’s richest deposits of anthracite coal. His circle of relatives’s stories illustrate with touching candor the plight of many thousands of Coal Belt families who stood proud through years of watching their sons, fathers, and husbands descend down the shafts into darkness.

Leonard recalls with stunning detail the unforgiving conditions―cave-ins, explosions, and choking dust―that he and his forebears endured in the mines. Also captured are poignant tales of the kindness and compassion that permeated mining communities in the face of such a lot hardship. The intense struggles and quiet successes in Anthracite Roots are a testament to the unsung heroes of The usa’s coal mines and the work they have got done to power a nation.

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