Coal River Folklife Project collection, 1992-2000 / Hufford, Mary, 1952- Eiler, Lyntha Scott. Eiler, Terry. American Folklife Center. Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) collectionmanuscriptmixed material Interviews. Field recordings West Virginia. Ethnography. aat Manuscripts. aat Sound recordings. aat Videocassettes. aat Photographs. aat engThe 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.Coal River Folklife Project Collection (AFC 1999/008), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Land use, RuralFolkloreForest managementMountaintop removal miningCoal mines and miningFolkloreA 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.http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000003Duplication of the collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.