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... forcing him to give up mining and farming, putting him and my grandmother on relief. They'd received boxes of food from the Penna Dept of Agriculture. Thank the Almighty for the UMW and Jock Yablonski. They did much better after that and Granpa Churley got effective medical treatment that allowed him to live a better life though still shortened life.

Some of the things he did to bring money home while they were still on the farm was he'd sit next to his lilac bush brushing Japanese beetles into a little jar of alcohol that he got pennies for from from the University of PA agricultural dept for insect studies. He had an old Union 36 loom (I have one, too) and wove rag carpets, Grandma would sew the strips of rags together that they'd buy at an auction, and in the summers different troops of grandkids would come out for a rotating couple of weeks and pick concord grapes, and different berries to sell to a man would come around regularly to buy the grapes and berries.

Coal mining made only the people who owned the mine any kind of decent life, and it still that way for 90% of shaft miners.

Screw Peabody and the like.