Premium Content The "Ruint" Doll: Hazel's Loss of Innocence in Kettle Bottom
By Megan Elizabeth Farris - October 03, 2007
The Appalachian mining camps of the early twentieth century are a source of many difficult memories for the people affected by them. If mining is dangerous today, it was even more so then, when there were no unions and company owners had complete control over their workers. Many lives were lost, and those lives are not limited to the mine workers…
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