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Anthracite Heritage: A Still "Unmined" Landscape

Anthracite Heritage: A Still "Unmined" Landscape

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1500707848
ISBN13: 9781500707842
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 2 2014
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The afterlife of the coal boom in NE Pennsylvania has been too long left out of contemporary academia and heritage considerations. This is a book about this coal boom ruination, as a form of recovering anthracite memories. It becomes an excavation that exposes various layers of ruin in the form of collapsed walls and dreams, immobile machinery and economic stagnation, exposed floors and history. These remains all reveal previous entanglements of a now defunct coal mining industry. The coal rush is over and buried, but the infrastructure and the families of those who sustained that rush, remain. Let's honor that which remains as anthracite coal mining heritage. Some landscapes....refuse history; some efface it so completely it is never found; in others, the thronging of memories of the past subdue the living (Loren Eiseley). This is the anthracite coal region.

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