Some children have been told they’d get a lump of coal if they were bad. The origin of this idea is hard to track. Some say Holland in the 1600s, some tie it to Italy, and others to the Charles ...
Life was not easy for most of Coalhurst’s 1,000 residents in December 1935. Added to the miseries of the Depression was the uncertain coal market, made worse by a steady chinook which brought mild ...