Park Ranger Danny Martin tells the story of how a land grant from the King of England led to the transformation of a wooded wilderness to a thriving mining boom-town. […]

This program centers on Howard Kester who was born and raised near Martinsville in the early twentieth century and later moved with his family to Beckley, West Virginia as a teenager. Those early years in and around Henry County, followed by his experiences in West Virginia coal country, were formative. Seeing firsthand the exploitation of […]