Coal mining is indelibly woven into the fabric of daily life in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, but a decline in the ...

Discover how 19th-century graphite mines near Ticonderoga and Lake George fueled the Dixon pencil empire, creating company ...

If you wanted to make a movie about the pain and progress of Kentucky’s Appalachian coalfield in the last 60 years, a key role would be that of Stephen C.