Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia

Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia

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Item Title

Aerial shot of entrance to Eagle Mine, an underground mine above Shumate's Branch. [Photo]

Author/Creator

Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott

Created/Published

October 26, 1995

Notes

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed.
"To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes the coal industry is creating in the coal fields of central Appalachia, Lyntha Eiler and I visited the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. There we interviewed Roger Hall, the assistant director, who invited us to view by helicopter the mountaintop removal and reclamation in progress on the Marsh and Clear Forks of the Big Coal River. Benny Campbell, a mining inspector from the Logan County office of the DEP, accompanied us on our helicopter tour.
The Eagle Mine, at the head of Shumate's Branch, is an underground mine. The entrances are beneath the exposed highwall and above the stockpiled coal."

Subjects

Fall
October
Eagle mine
Eagle seam
Underground mining
Goals Preparation Plant
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Shumate's Branch
Sundial, WV
Raleigh County

Object Type

still image

Medium

35 mm Color Slide

Language

English

Call Number

CRF-LE-C043-03

Part of

The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

afccmns lec04303
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec04303