It’s hard to imagine spending a lifetime in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, living in isolated coal camps and laboring at an endless job to put food on the table for your family. It’s a difficult life that West Virginians lived for many decades. While the mining and energy industries have changed, there are some evocative relics from those tough, thankless jobs. And if you’d like to put yourselves in the shoes of an early-20th-century coal miner, even for just a day, there’s no better way than to hike down the Kaymoor Miners Trail, in the New River Gorge. […]