There used to be an expression heard in San Giovanni in Fiore, and the other little Calabrase mountain towns near the arch of the boot in southern Italy that have […]
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Battle of Blair Mountain Art Exhibit
Newsroom@DominionPost.com “Pray For The Dead, Fight Like Hell For The Living” is now on display at Monongalia Arts Center. The exhibit, for which there was an opening reception Friday, commemorates […]
Legacy of labor in the Mountain State
The Mine Wars of 1912-21 were the height of labor organizing in the Mountain State. Organizing to demand real money for wages and less lethal work environments were punishable crimes; […]
Getting the last word on Blair Mountain
Bullets snapped the air, breaking branches and kicking dirt. Biplanes droned overhead, and some of the pipe bombs dropped by their pilots actually worked. It didn’t take long for the […]
The lost chapter: 100 years since Blair Mountain
Aug. 25, 1921, was the beginning of the end of West Virginia’s lost chapter. While the memory of company stores and scrip live on, the nearly decade-long rebellion against deplorable […]
