Miner's Haven

Story Overview

This story revolves around a young girl's unending passion for and ultimate marriage to a man more interested in the miner's union than in the one he has consummated with her.

Character Dynamics

Both characters, strong in totally different ways, compel the reader to sympathize alternately with each, creating a desire to discover the final culmination of this love/hate relationship and the many lives affected by it.

Historical Context

The Pennsylvania coal miners, who despite their hazardous lives—both physical and financial—along with their bigotry and ultimate betrayal by John L. Lewis, were the true heroes of this county, through the beginning of its growth to the end of World War II.