West Virginia law prohibits all outdoor burning ... the small, sleepy town of Coalwood will always be home for Homer Hickam and his rocket crew. Coalwood, which was established in the early ...

In 1957, Coalwood, West Virginia, was a miner’s town, a dusty coal camp in a narrow valley surrounded by high, heavily forested ridges, the sky a narrow swath between them. I still think of the ...

Homer Hickam, who is from Coalwood, West Virginia in McDowell County, said on his website that the original story about his ...

Throughout the summer of 1958, explosions rocked the hills and hollows near Coalwood, West Virginia. The first blasts terrified miners and their families. Had the mine blown up? Were the Russians ...