Reception is Thursday, July 13, from 5 to 7 pm.
An exhibition from West Virginia University’s Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum explores the lives of miners and their families in the coal towns of Appalachia. Outside the Mine: Daily Life in a Coal Company Camp focuses on four central components of our region’s coal communities—commerce and the company store, religion and faith, domestic work and activities, and social time and leisure. The exhibition features historical artifacts and photographs from the days when coal was king. From the late 19th- to the mid-20th centuries, self-contained communities call