Miners Quotes

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?