Lynch
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1.) (1986-1988) Immigrants in the Coal Fields Oral History Project. 31 interviews. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/series/18741/immigrants-coal-fields-o...
1.) Duff, Betty Parker (2004) Class and gender Roles in the Company Towns of Millinocket and East Millinocket, Maine and Benham and Lynch, Kentucky. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, The Univesity of Maine.
2.) Scott, Shaunna L. (1995) Two Side to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky. State University of New York Press, New York.
Longitude: -82.922400000000
My dad worked in the coal mines all his life. He always made good money. We were not rich but we had what we needed. He worked in the mines in Harlan Co. at Lynch, KY. I am a real Coal Miner's Daughter and proud of it.
-submitted by Fave Avery on 5/20/2014
The National Archives has an excellent online collection of archival photographs of Lynch from the collection Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War 1937-1948, Report of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry 1946-1947. www.research.archives.gov It includes many photographs of residents and the hospital.
Video of Lynch: http://youtu.be/TRKvwe_gUtc
