Join the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum for a special afternoon with local author Cora Hairston! 📚

In partnership with the Matewan Public Library, we’ve planned a special outing for our coalfield kids and families. Following a book reading from Cora’s Faces Behind the Dust, kids will participate in a special craft led by our town librarian, Kathi Sherrill. We’re also planning a show-and-tell of Mine Wars era artifacts as well as a scavenger hunt throughout the Museum. We’ll be providing lunch, too!

🍕🎂 Please RSVP to ensure we plan for enough people!

🔖 About the author: Cora Hairston retired from Logan General Hospital as the radiology coordinator after 30 years of service. She has written numerous poems and 20 or more gospel songs. Her love is singing, playing the piano, going to church, and preaching life lessons to her grandchildren. Leading up to her retirement so that she would have something to occupy her mind outside of home, she was encouraged by her daughter Amanda, to return to school to become a “nail technician,” which she did. This led her to be owner/operator of her own salon and eventually a “ladies boutique.” Cora and her husband, Fred, are the proud parents of four children, seven grandchildren, (one deceased) and four great-grandchildren. They reside in Omar, West Virginia.