Sentences with phrase «coal town»

In last year's presidential election, small coal towns across the country voted overwhelmingly for the presidential candidate who promised, in no uncertain terms, to put coal miners back to work.

But even if the industry does increase output, it will likely not be accompanied by the well - paying jobs and economic prosperity that coal towns desperately need.

This novel contains authentic - sounding dialogue from its cast of characters living in the small coal town of Red Bone, West Virginia.

She was born in 1968 in Barnesboro, a Western Pennsylvania coal town 85 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Cambria County.

They have been made with imagination, they are in themselves beautiful, and they are part, good or bad, of America — we have all seen this West Virginia coal town, this cotton wagon in Mississippi, this woodshed in Vermont.

It's a dismal, rainy morning in the eastern Kentucky coal town of Pikeville when McConnell turns up for a pair of events billed as listening sessions.

PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton raced into a sharpening phase of her campaign last night by appealing to anxious Americans in hardscrabble coal towns and Texas borderlands, in the first address by a female major - party nominee for president in U.S. history.

Inspired by Colangelo's 2010 Sundance short of the same name, «Little Accidents» is the story of a small coal town reeling from a recent mining disaster.

Shot in the real coal town of Beckley, W.V., Colangelo's film takes place in the aftermath of a fatal mining accident that has left 10 miners dead and a lot of people speculating about who's to blame for the tragedy.

Little Accidents / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Sara Colangelo)-- In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together — a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy — in a web of secrets.

Sara Colangelo makes her directorial debut with this Sundance hit about a small coal town rocked by tragedy.

He joins Linda Wertheimer to discuss a new memoir, tracing his life from a Welsh coal town to 20 years of superstardom — as well as a new album.

Baker Towers focuses on an immigrant family from the company coal town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.

I'm from PA - and I know in northern PA there are a lot of just dying counties that used to be booming coal towns.

To a traveler arriving on the morning train — by now an expert on Pennsylvania coal towns — the hat shop and dry - goods store, the pharmacy and mercantile, seem built to last.

Trinidad was originally a coal town, but a new boom industry in recent years has been marijuana tourism, as it's located near the New Mexico border.

There had been a home here, probably when a coal town thrived nearby.

Driving a box truck disguised as a giant camera, Agnès Varda and Jean «JR» René tour the French countryside in Faces Places, visiting farms, coal towns, factories, tiny cemeteries, and a toppled German bunker that sits like a Brutalist monument on a Norman beach.

Kyle and Klint Hayes are a freshman and junior in the high school of a slowly dying western Pennsylvania coal town.

Trinidad was originally a coal town, but a new boom industry in recent years has been marijuana tourism, as it's located near the New Mexico border.

Did You Know: One of Erie's early settlers chose to name it after another coal town, Erie, Pennsylvania.

The symbolism could not be clearer — in one scene, a towering statue of Mao Zedong rises above the coal town.

The magnificently drawn mural paintings and animated film use visual techniques taken from the caves of Lascaux and traditional Chinese landscape scrolls to tell a story of the life and death of a coal town.

Edward Hopper's «Pennsylvania Coal Town,» from the collection of The Butler Institute of American Art, is currently on view at the Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais in Paris, France.

Howell thinks that's somewhere Colstrip could look to see how a coal town can transition away from a one - horse economy.

An editorial in the local Newcastle Herald, the voice of this coal town, warned that the coal industry is «losing is social licence to operate».

Trinidad was originally a coal town, but a new boom industry in recent years has been marijuana tourism, as it's located near the New Mexico border.