The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains of coal tipples and processing ...

Taking in the ruins of a former coal mine abandoned 60 years ago, WV's Coal Festival Teen imagines the rusted remains of the coal tipples and company stores.

The coal industry once provided more than half of U.S. electricity production. But it has been in steep decline for decades ...