Bill Pancoast’s Road to Matewan
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Bill Pancoast’s Road to Matewan

2024-10-13
I could not put this away. Once I saw what happened here: the orange Tug River from the strip mines…the strip mining, the desecration, the poverty. I owed it to the world to tell what happened.William Trent Pancoast has worked as a construction laborer, gas station attendant, railroad section hand and brakeman, factory laborer, commercial laundry foreman, and machinist. He’s been an English teacher and a journeyman die-maker. In 1986 The Wall Street Journal dubbed Pancoast a "Blue col...
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