Tag: May Kelley

  • Disabled Coal Miner Says Park Service is Taking His Home

    Disabled Coal Miner Says Park Service is Taking His Home

    “I was there the night she had the heart attack” (J.C. Kelley, American Coal Miner, New River, 2005) This interview was conducted in 2005 on New River Road in Hinton, West Virginia.  According to sources there,  the National Park Service at first told the residents that they would fix the road and wanted permission to…