Scott's Run, circa 1987-2006

This subseries consists of Dr. Lewis’s work on Scott’s Run, a mining community in West Virginia that experienced a large coal boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes copies of scholarly publications on Scott’s Run, commemorative articles, newspaper clippings, facsimiles of primary source materials, course assignments from Dr. Lewis’s classes on mining communities, and oral history interviews. Many of the oral histories are in A/V format, recorded on cassette and VHS tapes. Digital materials include interview transcriptions, researched data about Scott’s Run, and more. The dates for this subseries reflect the content – not material creation. For most files, the content dates were determined by the donor and written beside his folder titles. Please be aware that the dates may not be accurate for every item within a folder but rather reflect the general timeframe of the subject matter.