Coal Towns of West Virginia
Travel with Stevenson to the original sites of forty-seven West Virginia coal towns, many of which are now not even a name on a map.  Stevenson’s book lets you visit the booming coal town of McAlpin, which if visited today would yield few, if any, visible remains.  Coal Towns depicts towns such as Stotesbury and Slab Fork, which seventy years ago were small but vibrant communities, but today contain only a few residential buildings.  These historical photographs let people re-visit their own, their parents’, and their grandparents’ childhoods, showing children how and where Grandpa worked, and remembering hometown ball games and silent movie shows.