Program

Public Programs: Younger Scholars, 2/76 - 2/85

Period of Performance

6/1/1978 - 8/31/1978

Funding Totals

$2,761.00 (approved)
$2,761.00 (awarded)


An Historical Study of the Economic Impact of Mine Closings on Company Towns

FAIN: GY-10579-78

Robert P. Lihani
Tates Creek High School (Lexington, KY)

To prepare a book and pictorial exhibit recording the struggle of ten towns, founded by the James Coal Company in the 1890s; in the face of mine closings. The heritage of an economic and social era of the industrial history of eastern Appalachia will be preserved in old and new photographs.