WV Mine Wars Museum

December 15, 2022

Courage, Events, Video, Programs

Courage in the Hollers: Mapping the Miners' Struggle for a Union

WV Mine Wars Museum

December 15, 2022

Courage, Events, Video, Programs

Courage in the Hollers: Mapping the Miners' Struggle for a Union

Unveiled on Labor Day 2022 as part of Monument Lab’s national Re:Generation cohort, Courage in the Hollers is a new, multi-faceted public memory project led by the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, co-created with communities in both Marmet and Clothier, WV…

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Programs, Events, Courage, Announcements

We achieved something MONUMENTAL on Labor Day Weekend.

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Programs, Events, Courage, Announcements

We achieved something MONUMENTAL on Labor Day Weekend.

Labor Day already gives us plenty of reasons to celebrate the national labor movement, but if you were with us this year in Matewan, Clothier, or Marmet, you know it was extra special. Thanks to those of you who were with us in body and in spirit. Our history and stories were on proud display…

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 25, 2022

Courage, Programs

Monument Unveiling this Labor Day Weekend

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 25, 2022

Courage, Programs

Earlier this year, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum launched Courage in the Hollers: Mapping the Miners’ Struggle for a Union, a new public history and monument project in the southern West Virginia coalfields…

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 6, 2022

Video, Courage

Monument Lab’s Re:Generation Roundtable ft. Shaun Slifer

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 6, 2022

Video, Courage

Monument Lab’s Re:Generation Roundtable ft. Shaun Slifer

Mercedes Dorame, Tomiko Meeks, Andrea Roberts, and our museum’s own Shaun Slifer discuss their public memory work…

WV Mine Wars Museum

July 7, 2022

Courage

Photo Shoot: Courage in the Hollers

WV Mine Wars Museum

July 7, 2022

Courage

Now, the silhouettes we’ll be creating from these photos will become the actual monuments, soon to be laser cut from Cor-Ten steel.

WV Mine Wars Museum

May 18, 2022

Announcements, Courage

Courage in the Hollers: The Museum Joins a Nationwide Public Memory Cohort!

WV Mine Wars Museum

May 18, 2022

Announcements, Courage

Courage in the Hollers: The Museum Joins a Nationwide Public Memory Cohort!

Building on the momentum of the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is proud to announce a new public monument project with Monument Lab!

WV Mine Wars Museum

January 19, 2022

Courage

Sharples: The Valiant Fight Ends when President Harding Sends in 2,500 Federal Troops

WV Mine Wars Museum

January 19, 2022

Courage

Leaving Marmet on August 25, the first wave of marchers had a singular focus: marching to Mingo County, freeing the illegally held miners, and bringing a union into southern West Virginia…

WV Mine Wars Museum

January 14, 2022

Courage

Marmet: The Beginning of the Most Significant Labor Rebellion in American History

WV Mine Wars Museum

January 14, 2022

Courage

By 8:00 A.M. on Tuesday, August 23, 1921, Marmet’s newly elected mayor W.A. Miller watched history being made before his eyes as miners gathered in Marmet to begin their March to Mingo…