SO MANY PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS TO THANK FOR ALLOWING ME TO DO THIS PROJECT!

Thank you, Mom, for allowing me to interview you about things that happened before you were even born, thank you to my brother, Alex, for his family tree worksheet that he was using for a scholarship essay, thank you to Edward Tarte who uploaded a fabulous piano performance of the old-timey song "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built For Two)" to his YouTube channel--everyone, go subscribe to Edward Tarte's YouTube channel--he's such a genial human with great talent--thank you to Newspapers.com and FindAGrave.com (they really have something for everything), thank you to the Pennsylvania State Archives for keeping records of all mining accidents, thank you to Wix.com for only being a little glitchy and fairly easy to use (HTML who?),  thank you to RREady555 who uploaded a version of "Where or When" to Youtube, thank you Audacity and VLC Media Player, thank you to my grandmother who kept like EVERYTHING EVER (must be a Depression Era thing?), thank you to The Black Lung Workers' Compensation Fund for giving benefits to my grandfather, thank you to 1935 The Wilkes Barre Evening News and Standard-Sentinel for publishing my great grandfather's hybrid plant story, thank you BH for uploading a video of a canary singing (over one million views!), thank you to Thomas--the BF-- for flipping through pages of a photo album while I filmed it, thank you to Ariana Grande for the Thank U, Next music video, thank you to Fox Business (I guess) for uploading that speech about coal, thank you to Leslie Jamison for her beautiful essay, Fog Count, thank you to all the people, past and present, who have worked in American energy to support themselves and their families, and most importantly, thank you to Professor Nyssa Chow and all my classmates: Nikki, Taylor, Ninot, Renata, Thomas, Veronica, Monica, Gabby, Sean, Maggie, Emma, Kayla, and Kasey for watching my presentation about a niche topic and just talking about my family. Thank you to anyone my fried brain might've forgotten. And NONE FOR DONALD TRUMP!