Poco Field

In this beautifully written meditation on identity and place, Talmage A. Stanley tells the story of his grandparents'' middle-class aspirations from the 1920s to the 1940s in the once-booming Pocahontas coalfields of southern West Virginia. Part lyrical family memoir and part social study, The Poco Field: An American Story of Place addresses a long-standing gap in Appalachian and American studies...