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Memories from Dante Coal Town Exhibit at SW Virginia CC
The Dante History Project presents Memories from Dante The Life of a Coal Town a large exhibit at Southwest Virginia Community College through July 21. It surveys Dante Virginia population decline from 3800 in 1930 to about 950 now, tracing coal timber and immigrant origins, church life, courtship and the town’s coal era under Clinchfield with the last mine closing in 1959. The display features 800 photos 44 taped interviews and 125 panels on quilts created by the Dante Senior Citizens, with text by Dr Jean Haskell Speer linking Dante to Appalachian coalfield trends.
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Virginia
West Virginia
Community Center
Southwest Virginia Community College
Thelma Lee Crowder
Virginia General Assembly
Bud Phillips
Dante
America
Hitler
Hungary
UMW
Hollows
Russell County
Clinchfield Coal Corporation
Clinchfield
Dante History Project
People, Inc
Southwest Virginia
Jean Haskell Speer
Center For Appalachian Studies and Services
East Tennessee State University
Appalachian
UMWA
Peopleincorp.org
Danter
Kathy Shearer
West Main Street
Abingdon