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No Rats In The Mines

No Rats In The Mines by HARRIETTE S. ARNOW How was whiskey made from corn in a wooden still? What was the difference be- tial that I thought it may have come from practical application. I didn't ask. In any case, I shall refer to him as Mr. Atkins. tween a shingle and a roof board? Such questions plagued me many years ago when I was doing research for a social history of the pioneers in Kentucky and Tennessee. A good deal of study in books and manuscripts had not yielded all the details of daily living I needed to know. I thought Finished with whiskey, Mr. Atkins talked of mining coal. He'd dug coal in the West Virginia mines for several years back around World War I. One of the best paying jobs he'd ever had was robbing coal. In one way of mining, he explained coal companies had to leave big pillars of coal in the rooms to support the rock above the coal seam; that is for the fir^t I might leam something from people in the southern counties on the western fringe of Appalachia where many descendants of early settlers lived. I was not disappointed. Many of the older http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

No Rats In The Mines

Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson,.
Appalachian Review , Volume 3 (2) – Jan 8, 1975
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by HARRIETTE S. ARNOW How was whiskey made from corn in a wooden still? What was the difference be- tial that I thought it may have come from practical application. I didn't ask. In any case, I shall refer to him as Mr. Atkins. tween a shingle and a roof board? Such questions plagued me many years ago when I was doing research for a social history of the pioneers in Kentucky and Tennessee. A good deal of study in books and manuscripts had not yielded all the details of daily living I needed to know. I thought Finished with whiskey, Mr. Atkins talked of mining coal. He'd dug coal in the West Virginia mines for several years back around World War I. One of the best paying jobs he'd ever had was robbing coal. In one way of mining, he explained coal companies had to leave big pillars of coal in the rooms to support the rock above the coal seam; that is for the fir^t I might leam something from people in the southern counties on the western fringe of Appalachia where many descendants of early settlers lived. I was not disappointed. Many of the older

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Published: Jan 8, 1975

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