Illustrations

Pete Seeger at Don West's Appalachian South Folklife Center in Pipestem, WV
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Redbud Morning
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Shift's End
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Out Back
(Page 32)

Loadout
(Page 37)

Scale House
(Page 48)

In the Pit
(Page 65)

The Whipple Company Store
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Raymond Lewis, John L. Lewis's brother, Charley Payne, former vice president of umw District 17, and Bill Blizzard
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Family Photographs of Bill Blizzard from the Collection of William C. Blizzard Courtesy of Wess Harris

Right to Left: Bill Blizzard, his parents, and his brother, Frank, at Eskdale in the Early 1940s
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Blizzard Holiday Gathering around the table—Bill Blizzard in the center rear holding the baby
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Bill Blizzard's children, William C. Blizzard standing and Margie sitting down
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Bill Blizzard, pointing, at the groundbreaking for a United Mine Workers Union Hospital
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Bill Blizzard catching a fish
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Bill Blizzard testifying at his last trail where he was acquitted of charges leveled against him in the 1950s by the coal company during a strike at Widen when he was President of District 17
(Page 99)

Morning Shift
(Page 107)

Mike Seeger performing on stage at Pipestem
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