Imagine your employer owns your home. Your employer provides your food. Your employer builds ballfields, parks, and churches to make you happy. But if you disobey they have the power to take everything away. And they use a government sanctioned private police force to do it!

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That's exactly what happened to coal miners in the early 1900's. The Coal and Iron Police brutally enforced companies rules. If you weren't fired, your family may be evicted from company housing. Talk of unionization was met with force, and people were not permitted to assemble in groups bigger than three.

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I started working on Coal & Iron several years ago to tell the stories passed down by my father about life in a western Pennyslvania coal mining town. It the story of my great grandfather, my grandmother, and all my great aunts and uncles as they struggled and survived under harsh conditions. Coal & Iron is a griping tale of an immigrant forced to choose between the fear of losing everything and the fight against the Coal & Iron Police.

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If you're a fan of Yellowstone, The Peaky Blinders, or Deadwood, you'll love Coal & Iron!

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Come back for more updates on the progress of this exciting drama.