100 Days in Appalachia7d
In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...
100 Days in Appalachia7d
Reclaiming and Revitalizing Resources in West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields
The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and ...
The New York Times6y
THE MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT.; The Fight at McDowell Details of Preliminary Movements Brilliant Bravery and skillful Manoeuvring of the National Forces.
MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT ... First in order comes the fight at McDowell. Soon after the evacuation of Yorktown, Gen. FREMONT ordered Gen. MILROY to fall back from Buffalo Gap, toward Monterey, quite ...
Save the Children4mon
When High School–and Childhood–Is Cut Short in America
In McDowell Country in West Virginia, the state’s poorest county, 17% of children are not graduating from high school on time. Surrounded by the Appalachians, McDowell is the Mountain State’s ...