Title: John Henry: "Take this hammer, it won't kill you"
Abstract: One January day in 1968, a bunch of us lit out from Westminster, Maryland, and headed down through the Allegheny Mountains to the southwest corner of West Virginia. We weren't exactly Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the Magic Bus, but we still made something of a 1960s caravan as we hauled books to start a library in an old two-room school in Mohawk, a small coal-mining town near the Kentucky line. Click for larger view Figure 1 "The story of a black railroad laborer who went for broke, challenging the machine, did mean something. In the high-tech age that has evolved since, the steel-driving John Henry seems like even more of a hero to me. He's certainly as famous now as he ever was." The legend of John Henry began in Big Bend Tunnel, which CSX Railroad still uses today. Photograph courtesy of John Dillon and the Summers County Visitors Bureau.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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