Running Piney Creek Road between Beaver and Beckley — and the story underneath it.

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The drive back out of Raleigh on a July evening.

Every road in West Virginia's coal country, one at a time. Follow along 👇

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Up off Airport Road in Beaver, near the county airport and Little Beaver State Park — the place that became the center of my whole world gro…

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Harper Road in Beckley, near the Kroger whose roof came down in the February 1998 blizzard — two feet of wet snow frozen solid, then two mor…

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Driving Sprague, the unincorporated piece of Raleigh County that grew up shoulder to shoulder with Beckley — close enough that I didn't figu…

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Rolling the bench southeast of Beckley — Shady Spring and Daniels, Raleigh County.

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Rolling through Blue Jay and down into Beaver on a May morning in Raleigh County — the kind of drive where the hills are full green and the…

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Harper Park Drive on the western side of Beckley — Raleigh County, southern West Virginia, deep in the old smokeless-coal country.

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