Postmaster Brown, Old Rag, Virginia

Wife of unemployed coal miner, suffering from T.B., living in old company store, abandoned mining town of Marine, West Virginia

Coal miner's child taking home kerosene for lamps. Company houses, coal tipple in background, Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Coal miner's child taking home kerosene for lamps. Company houses, coal tipple in background, Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia

[Album Featuring the Early Life of Virginia M]

Striking miners, Scotts Run, West Virginia

[Virginia Mayo signing autographs at a movie premiere]

Maxine Peters finally passes away at home, surrounded by her family, friends and hospice aides. In rural West Virginia, people still live--and die, the old fashioned way.