The other night, I watched an interesting documentary about coal mining in Appalachia. My husband and I are always looking to find interesting and educational programs to watch online (we do not have television), and that was what we found interesting on that particular evening. One of the things that I found most interesting about the people that are mining coal today is that many of them are descended from other coal miners. Coal mining has changed a great deal since the days where all of the work was done by hand. The work is still very dangerous, and very … Continue reading →