Hufford, Mary1952-Eiler, Lyntha Scott.Eiler, Terry.American Folklife CenterArchive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress)mixed materialInterviews.Field recordings-West Virginia.Ethnography.Manuscripts.Sound recordings.Videocassettes.Photographs.dcu19922000monographiceng26313 folders.239 sound cassettes : analog.53 sound cassettes (DAT) : digital.13,647 photographs : slides, negatives, photographic prints, contact sheets, col., b&w ; various sizes.5 videocassettes (Hi-8) : col., sd.13 computer disks.The Coal River Folklife Project is an ethnographic field project documenting traditional customs and land use in the mountains of southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley from 1992 to 1999. Collection materials include manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, videorecordings and related research materials gathered by project team members, directed by Mary Hufford of the American Folklife Center. There are extensive interviews with local residents on the seasonal harvesting of natural resources--ginseng, ramps, berries, nuts, fish, and game--and on occupations, including coal mining and timbering; and on the effects of large scale industries such as logging and mountaintop removal mining on local communities. Cultural and religious community events were a focus of the project, including storytelling, community dinners and foodways, baptisms, and cemetery customs. In addition to photographs taken by fieldworkers, the collection contains a large number of documentary photographs by Lyntha Scott Eiler and Terry Eiler.American Folklife Center.A portion of the collection is available as "Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia," an American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.Coal River Folklife Project Collection (AFC 1999/008), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.n-us-wvn-usaLand use, RuralWest VirginiaFolkloreWest VirginiaForest managementSocial aspectsWest VirginiaMountaintop removal miningWest VirginiaCoal mines and miningWest VirginiaFolkloreAppalachian RegionBig Coal River Valley (W. Va.)Social life and customsWest VirginiaSocial life and customsAppalachian RegionSocial life and customsWest VirginiaReligious life and customs2004659956hdl:loc.afc/collafc.af000003http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000003DLC-AFC Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.DLC05111720060412173622.014172084