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WELCOME to the Hatmaker Website!

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Quick Links:

Catalogue of Items

Web Links

Guest Book

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Coalwood and Caretta in Pictures:

Order Volume One

Order Volume Two

Order Volume Three

Order Volume Four

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Hatmaker History:

The Hatmaker Monument Fund

Shadows Over Us Part 1
SOME
LIMITED
STOCK!

Shadows Over Us Part 2

Shadows Over Us Part 3

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Clear Fork Series:

The Coalwood Misfits


The Coalwood Misfits in Audio

The Kindred Gathering

Shoddy and Ox

Murder on the Birdsong

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Related Items:

Welcome to Coalwood: A film by Steve Date

Coalwood Memories

Cherry Voiceworks

 

Hatmaker.org

Hatmaker.org is maintained to present literary works in all genres, including works of fiction, non-fiction, and genealogy; and to provide a forum for interaction and discovery.


  Thank you to those who have contributed to the Hatmaker Monument Fund!  We need help in getting this project completed!  Donations go directly to the monument itself ... all personal expenses are donated!  Please contribute!  


Featured Item:

   COALWOOD AND CARETTA
in PICTURES

Now Available

View photos of activities the weekend of October 3rd, 2009 surrounding the October Sky festival at Coalwood, West Virginia:

Premiere of Steve Date's movie: Welcome to Coalwood 

October Sky Festival, Coalwood, WV


COALWOOD and CARETTA in PICTURES is a series of four books brought to you by BV Wespat that presents life as it once was in Coalwood and Caretta, WV, the Sisters, from the 1920s through the 1980s.  Each book has a different theme...click on a volume below to find more information or to order! 


VOLUME ONE: WEST VIRGINIA COAL CAMPS
Presents life as it once was in Coalwood and Caretta, WV  


VOLUME TWO: FAMILIES of the SISTERS
A focus on the families of Coalwood and Caretta, WV  



VOLUME THREE: MARRIAGES and RETURNS
A compilation of marriage licenses and returns for Coalwood and Caretta  


VOLUME FOUR: YOUNG PATRIOTS of the SISTERS
Presents servicemen and women of Coalwood and Caretta who served our great nation  


Most photos were taken with permission from the gigantic collections of these families: Mauck, Ridenour, Likens, Hatmaker, Cox-Wilson, Todd-DeHaven, Lanier, Farris, Goad, Wooten, and Richardson-Conley


    BONUS!!   

ACTUAL video of Coalwood, West Virginia!

Click HERE to see what's happening in Middletown
Circa 1966

Click HERE to see EE Cassell Park and Middletown
 Circa 1966-67

Click HERE to see one of the many floods to hit Coalwood
Circa 1972  

Note: Video load time will vary depending on connection speed.  DO NOT download if on a dial-up connection.


  Also Now Available 

THE COALWOOD MISFITS: IN AUDIO
A tongue-in-cheek look at growing up in a small coal camp during the late 1950s and 60s.


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Music Credit: 
Album: Old Time Gathering
Instrumentals: Westphalia Waltz and Shamus O'Brien
Produced by Mark Howard


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