Tag: Boone County

• Blackout: Scenes from a Coal-Dependent Economy

  

  This article was originally published in the Jan./Feb. 2016 issue of West Virginia Focus magazine. One day Bill Thompson, 76, decided to just sit and wait by the front door of his Boone County home improvement store. Thompson bought Danville Lumber from his uncle after he left the Army in 1963. Business was strong back […]

  zackharold

  January 18, 2016

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  Appalachia, Boone County, business, coal, economics, economy, education, feature writing, longform, narrative journalism, nonfiction, West Virginia, WV

• Boone town still dealing with explosion that killed 11 men

  This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Nov. 6, 2013. NELLIS, W.Va. — William Gunnoe noticed his safety lamp had stopped burning. Gunnoe, a section foreman at the Nellis No. 3 Mine in the Boone County with 19 years’ experience, knew a darkened lamp meant one of two things. Either the […]

  zackharold

  November 8, 2014

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  Appalachia, Boone County, coal mining, feature writing, history, narrative journalism, Nellis Mine Explosion, nonfiction, West Virginia