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‘Coal just isn’t the future’: Meet the Kentucky miners picking up a new trade

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    By Elizabeth McGowanMar 21, 2019, 6:03 am215 pts
    photo of ‘Coal just isn’t the future’: Meet the Kentucky miners picking up a new trade imageScott Shoupe didn’t want to follow his classmates into the coal mines when he graduated from Harlan High School in 1993. His ticket out — “to make something of myself” — was a baseball scholarship 130 miles north at Morehead State University. But when his favorite sport started feeling more like a job…
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