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Fire in the Hole

Fire in the Hole Terry Mullins Appalachian Heritage, Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 1991, pp. 57-60 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0026 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438570/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:48 GMT from JHU Libraries Archie Mullins and son, Terry Fire in the Hole by Terry Mullins Archie Mullins, a native of Kanawha County, West Virginia, worked a short period of time in the West Virginia coal mines when he was a young man. He comes from a family of coal miners, but spent most of his working life in glass factories. The working life of Mullins and his brothers in many ways parallels the changes in the economy of the region. His older brothers, French and Green Mullins, spent their whole lives as miners. Archie Mullins worked briefly in the mines, moved on to factory work, and eventually became a supervisor in a Libby-Owens-Ford glass factory. His younger brother, Gene Kirkpatrick, never worked in the mines, taking a factoryjob with an Owens-Illinois bottle plant immediately out of high school. By 1949, mechanization and automation were coming to the mines with resulting changes in working conditions and productivity. The pace of automation has http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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Terry Mullins Appalachian Heritage, Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 1991, pp. 57-60 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0026 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438570/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:48 GMT from JHU Libraries Archie Mullins and son, Terry Fire in the Hole by Terry Mullins Archie Mullins, a native of Kanawha County, West Virginia, worked a short period of time in the West Virginia coal mines when he was a young man. He comes from a family of coal miners, but spent most of his working life in glass factories. The working life of Mullins and his brothers in many ways parallels the changes in the economy of the region. His older brothers, French and Green Mullins, spent their whole lives as miners. Archie Mullins worked briefly in the mines, moved on to factory work, and eventually became a supervisor in a Libby-Owens-Ford glass factory. His younger brother, Gene Kirkpatrick, never worked in the mines, taking a factoryjob with an Owens-Illinois bottle plant immediately out of high school. By 1949, mechanization and automation were coming to the mines with resulting changes in working conditions and productivity. The pace of automation has

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