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CLICK HERE to view Memorial Service for William C.
Blizzard in The Charleston Gazette (WV) January 2009
WHEN MINERS MARCH author
William C. Blizzard has been featured by the History Channel on their prime
time special, HILLBILLY, The Real Story. Audio drama and music sound track
producer Ross Ballard also got "screen time" and project scholar Wess Harris
provided countless hours of backgrounding for the production crew. Scenes
on the Battle of Blair Mountain are more accurate than any prior
documentaries. Check the
History Channel web site for upcoming air dates. |
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When Miners March is the definitive history of the
coal miners of West Virginia. William C. Blizzard wrote the text in the
early 1950s while his father, miner's hero Fearless Bill Blizzard, was
still alive and able to comment. Political realities kept the book in a
box for more than half a century--unavailable to either scholars writing
their own accounts of the mine wars or Union families seeking to pass on
their own proud heritage.
The text has not been
edited from the original (No Need. A Great Read.) but pictures and
documents from the collection of William C. Blizzard have been added
giving readers a first hand look into our Union roots.
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An
"INTRODUCTION" from the Postscript by William C. Blizzard:
Some readers, some scholars, may
protest this writer's method of departing from academic "objectivity," and
rooting enthusiastically for the coal miners. That is too bad, but we have no
apologies. We want our writing to be read, not grow musty in the library of any
elite coterie. This is a people's history, and if it brawls a little, and brags
a little, and is angry more than a little, well, the people in this book were
that way, and so are their descendants.
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