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Dirty Business: Looking into a Mine Disaster in Beckley, WV

November 15, 2017 / by Malcolm Logan

At around 3:25pm on April 5, 2010 Rex Mullins and Nick McCroskey were working 1000 feet underground at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia. Mullins, a 50 year old mining veteran, was working with McCroskey, a 26 year old graduate of Bluefield College, on the shearer of…

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Bad Blood: Tracing the Family Blood Lines Through the Hatfields & McCoys

March 15, 2014 / by Malcolm Logan

I suspect my daughter is a hillbilly. That is, I think she may have hillbilly blood running in her veins. How much hillbilly blood, you might ask? Well, check this out. Her mother’s name is Marie Hatfield. Her grandfather’s name is Clarence. His father’s name was Floyd, and he was…

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