Fall Asleep as a Coal Breaker Boy in 19th Century Pennsylvania

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Tonight, you are a coal breaker boy in the anthracite region of 19th-century Pennsylvania.

Long before sunrise, you climb into a towering wooden coal breaker where endless rivers of black coal rush beneath your hands. Hour after hour, you sit above the chutes sorting slate from coal while machinery rattles through the timber beams around you. Coal dust settles into your clothes, your meals, your lungs, and every corner of the mining towns that depend upon the industry.<...