OH187 Linda Earl McDowell Oral History

Linda Earl McDowell discusses the Duvin Mine explosion on July 14, 1939 at Providence, Kentucky. Her account of the disaster was told by her mother, family members, newspaper clippings, other miners and F.V. Ruckman, the owner of the mine. She discusses her father, Earl White Woodring, one of the miners killed by the blast. She details the lives of the miners, including safety issues, script ("flickers"), and the unionization of the mines. She discusses Ruckman's impact on her family and interactions with him following the explosion.