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CLICK HERE to view Memorial Service for William C.
Blizzard in The Charleston Gazette (WV) January 2009
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DID YOU KNOW WE TRAVEL?
Let us
bring history to you. Artifacts pictured in WMM and
many other relics from the early days of mining can
travel to your group! Even the infamous "cannon" used
against the miners at Matewan can come to some events!
Plan an event to see our history come alive.
Presentation includes not only learning about what
happened but also WHY we need to know now. History is a
tool for tomorrow.Call Wess at 304, 927-5333 or email
flatridge@hughes.net |
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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.
We have also added a biography of Bill Blizzard and a review of
related literature to get students started."
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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. 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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"This is THE
college text in Appalachian Studies for decades to come." |
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