by Emery Jeffreys The striking Great Depression-era photos of miners at Omar, West Virginia try to tell a simple story of daily life in the coal fields. The photos depict men who performed dangerous, back-breaking work to earn a poor man’s dollar, the long walk home, or a trip to a segregated movie theater. The […]
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1936 Logan High Yearbook Photos *Yearbook courtesy of Andy Smith. **To conserve server space, only photo pages and pages of particular interest were published.
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By Dwight Williamson One doesn’t have to be in downtown Logan to understand that the past is something that should not only be understood, but also appreciated for what transpired decades ago that could have changed all of what we identify with today. Sound confusing? Allow me to simplify the statement in an example. What
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Court House Elm is Slowly Dying Logan Banner, 14 April 1922 The old elm that has stood on the western end of the court house plaza has given evidence that it is about ready to give up the ghost and pass away. Efforts have been made this week to water the roots and otherwise assist
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Ronald Charles McCormick of Steger, Illinois, born July 10, 1933 at Monitor WV, transcended this life on May 12, 2021. Ronald was the son of the late Clovis and Virginia McCormack of Cherry Tree. Celebration of Life for Ronald to be held in meeting room at the Chief Logan Lodge on July 16 at 10:00.
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A celebration of the life of Ronald Charles McCormick July 10, 1933 – May 2, 2021. From the perspective of his brother. The beginning? Well, a young coal miner from KY by the name of Clovis had taken a job with the Monitor Coal and Coke Company. Boarding at the company clubhouse, he would frequently
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By Robert McCormack Long before many of us experienced attending the new high school on Midelburg Island beginning in 1957, the island served as Logan’s playground: Ballfields, carnivals, circuses, site of the outdoor drama, “The Aracoma Story,” horseback riding, and tent revivals. I’m reminded of three Logan Junior High Band members from Cherry Tree who
By Bob Piros The Ammar brothers started their business in the early 1900s as peddlers. They would carry their entire inventory on their backs, walking every step of the way as they traveled a route that would take them from Alabama to Michigan and back again. The brothers would split up to cover their route
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GROWING UP IN A COAL CAMP The Dime Store Lunch Counter By: Connie Baisden Marsh Many of us shopped at G.C. Murphy’s in Logan. Here is a story I wrote about shopping with my mother in the 1960s. “What are these little sticks for?” I asked my mother when I was about eight years old.
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By Dwight Williamson It was the summer of 1972 and the almost unbearable scorching heat was taking its toll on the “boys of summer” — better known as the “Porch Sitters.” Most of us who had spent nearly our entire lifetimes congregating every day and night on the concrete porch of Island Creek Coal Company’s
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