Juneteenth Special Edition: Raymond Thompson, Jr.

Name: Juneteenth Special Edition: Raymond Thompson, Jr.
Start: 2024-06-17T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 52-16th Street, Wheeling, WV, United States, West Virginia 26003

Schedule

Mon Jun 17 2024 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

52-16th Street, Wheeling, WV, United States, West Virginia 26003 | Wheeling, WV

As part of the lead-up to Wheeling's Juneteenth Observation, we present a special Monday edition of Lunch With Book.
The University Press of Kentucky is pleased to announce the release of a timely and essential book about the Black experience. "Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster" by Raymond Thompson Jr. explores the possibilities of that tragedy by reviving the faces and spaces of Hawk's Nest. Using primary source materials to re-create the workers' experiences in photographs, Thompson recontextualizes archival images to present a counter-archive that positions the Black experience at Hawk's Nest within the larger story of the American labor landscape. His photographs and poetry give voice to the silenced, resisting revisionist narratives that often ignore the sacrifices of African Americans and erase their instrumental role in the development of America's infrastructure.