NEW RIVER GORGE
Convention & Visitors Bureau

The Beckley Center of Concord University and The Coal Heritage Highway Authority announce the 2012 Coal Heritage Public Lecture Series.

All presentations are held in Room E10 of the Erma Byrd Higher Education Center on Airport Road and are free and open to the public

February 6 -- Under These Hills

A one-man performance of the life and work of a coal miner presented by Fred Powers. Fred Powers worked over 20 years as a coal miner in MacDowell County. This dramatic presentation tells of the work of an underground coal miner. There will be a short intermission and then Fred will do a shorter program about coal miners in the Civil War.

The Coal Heritage Public Lecture Series is a part of an academic class at the Beckley Center of Concord University entitled Coal Culture in West Virginia . The instructor is Karen Vuranch, Appalachian storyteller and historian. For more information about any of these lectures or the class, please contact Karen at karen@wventerprises.com or kvuranch@concord.edu