Box 7

Scope and Contents This series includes manuscripts for several unpublished and unfinished works, including:The State of Appalachia (undated), an unfinished and unpublished work of non-fiction. It consists of one notebook containing research notes and draft versions of the book.Robert and Ted (2011-2013), an unfinished play about Senator Robert C. Byrd. Box 6 includes one typescript copy of the first draft of the...

Scope and Contents

This addendum includes both a printed and digital copy of a draft of a memoir titled Animals. This memoir recounts episodes from Giardina's life, focusing on the pets she and her family owned. She also writes about Italian immigration in WV, race relations and civil rights, life in coal camps, coal companies, her time in school, her political views, travel to England, religion, music, her mother, and her personal experience writing.