From the Archives: Anticipating a new energy future, an anthropologist returns home to contemplate what lessons we will learn from the coal industry’s material remains and monuments.
. I found fewer former President Donald Trump flags and T-shirts per capita than in the “liberal” town where I live in Colorado, despite the mainstream equation ofWhile many of the people I spoke with in Gillette were optimistic about the possibility of the coal market rebounding, the materiality of the coal itself largely precludes the kind of resuscitation happening in places such as southern Colorado.
Curious about other regions that had weathered coal market collapses, I next visited the southern Colorado coalfields. Twenty miles north of the resuscitated New Elk Mine lies Ludlow, a site whose current neglected condition belies its crucial role in U.S. labor history.Jacob Smithgripped readers across the United States. Around 10,000 miners across the region had been striking against John D. Rockefeller Jr.
During my 2021 return trip to Wyoming, I also visited the closest thing the town has to a monument to the coal industry: an equipment graveyard that doubles as a public park. I discovered birds living inside of the retired 170-ton mine truck on display. They chirped happily as the breeze silently turned the fan at the truck’s rear, a stark contrast from the decibel levels that would have been present when the truck was operational.
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