September 12, 2024Forty seven pupils in the second, third and fourth grades attended school in this one room with one teacher; there are not enough books nor desks. Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company, Belva Mine, abandoned after explosion [in] Dec. 1945, Four Mile, Bell County, Kentucky. Photo by Russell Lee
September 12, 2024East Germany really wasn’t so bad if you could look past the pervasive surveillance, ruthless crushing of dissent, and the fact that you’d be killed if you tried to escape.