From the bookshelf: Appalachian voices

[theHandpuppet]

Have any books by Appalachians or about Appalachia that you'd like to recommend?
I'll start off with this one:

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201311300034The Charleston Gazette
November 30, 2013
'Appalachia USA' shows life in coalfields

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For more than 45 years, Builder Levy has traveled throughout central Appalachia photographing the people, buildings and landscapes of historic coal towns.

"Appalachia USA," his new book, reprints 69 of his photographs from the coalfields. Some portray historic coal towns like Welch, along with pictures of nearby tipples and churches.

The book offers an array of powerful images of men and women working underground in mines across the coalfields in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, in places like Mingo and Wyoming counties. Other pictures show miners heading home after the end of their shifts in places like Kayford Branch Mine on Cabin Creek...

... "The mountains themselves - the most biodiverse in North America and among the oldest in the world - have been central to my interests," Levy wrote. "My primary focus remains, however, the quotidian life of the people and their enduring humanity."