Taking Lives or Giving Life: The Paradox of the Parrott Coalmines
Creator
Lisanti, Lisa
Albert, Barry
Semones, Victor
Solomon, Romey
In this project, Lisa Lisanti interviewed several people from the small community of Parrot, Virginia. The town of Parrot was originally started as a mining community and the men of the town worked in the Little Vein mine in Parrott, Virginia. Today many people who live in the town have no real connection to the mines and so Ms. Lisanti chose to interview people who had lived and worked in the town during its mining days. This is among projects created by students enrolled in English 446 (initially English 452), “Appalachian Folklore,” 1981-2019, and in graduate level counterparts English 548 and 648 “Appalachian Folk Culture(s)” offered 17 fall semesters between 1987 and 2009. Minimally contain collector’s introduction and analysis, transcribed informant interviews, and excerpted and labeled examples of oral, customary, and/or material folklore/folklife collected primarily within the Appalachian region. Most include also tables of contents, informant information, indexes (outlines) of interviews, photographs, miscellaneous paper items, and indexes of informants, genres, and geographic locations. Accompanying audio recordings (several minutes to 2+ hours). Transferred to McConnell Library Archives & Special Collections from Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, Fall 2013.