Coal Hollow by Melanie Light5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The diversity of those interviewed is commendable, however they are too loosely affiliated with the photographs to give anything more than a general voice behind the composite group represented. ![]() In addition to the photographs, the book includes oral histories conducted by Melanie Light that provide insight into the continuing saga of poverty and humanity in Appalachia. In Coal Hollow, the Lights convey the day-to-day reality and negative impact of the coal mining industry. This year was a sad year for the families of the mining industry and the media attention of the Sago mine accident makes the faces in these images seem more familiar. This song stayed with me through all of Ken Light’s piercing black-and-white photographs of coal communities today trying to hold on and barely surviving. These coal hollows are places rich in folklore and folk songs. ![]() Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't goĪs I read the oral history of Neale Clark, a local news-paper reporter of Oak Hill, West Virginia, recounting the mining days of the early 1900s I remembered this song chorus. You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? ![]()
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