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20/02/2023

"Like all miners, they faced extremely dangerous working conditions, but it was exacerbated by the fact that the managers tended to put black miners in the worst sections of the mines," said Lou Martin, an assistant professor of history at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who specialises in Appalachian history.

20/02/2023

Nevertheless, racism and tragedy were also prominent, and the auto tour takes travellers through those events too. For instance, it talks about the McKendree Miner's Hospital, where African Americans injured in mining accidents were treated in segregated hospital wards.

20/02/2023

18/02/2023

"Over the years, it wasn't serving the community in the way it was needed," said Steph Harris, who grew up in Inverie and is now business development manager of the Old Forge Community Benefit Society. "The main thing was that it shut during the winter, which was massive for us. We're really tourism-based, so people are very busy in the summer, and in the winter we get the chance to spend time together again. But the pub would shut for six months in September or October. When it's dark and windy and horrible, you need somewhere you can go and relax, meet up with your friends, celebrate stuff together."

15/02/2023

The onboard chefs create dishes that pay homage to the local Acadian culture, while attendants scurry from cabin to cabin, ensuring everyone is comfortable and has enough refreshments to last the 24-hour journey. The lack of reliable WiFi or cellular service for most of the trip allows you to focus on the endless Canadian landscape. And there is even a full-sized shower on board for sleeper-cabin passengers: something usually only offered on multi-thousand-dollar business-class flights.

13/02/2023

The sun set at 4:18pm, the earliest nightfall of the year for Washington. As the sky bruised, the temperature dropped to freezing and frost filigreed the tent. The high humidity soaked the cold right into our bones.

11/02/2023

In the villages that were around Gombe, [the programme] has improved lives, provided microcredit for women and scholarships to keep girls in school and ways of restoring fertility to the land without chemicals. Tacare is now throughout the chimp range in Tanzania at 104 villages and in six other African countries, and the people have learned to use smartphones to monitor their own environment. They've realised that saving the forests is for their own future, not just the chimpanzees'.