ISA_Teaser1 April 5, 2014 900 × 1200 #ISA2014 Mixer and Launch of Journal for Narrative Politics Opening page of Coal Mountain. Here we meet Gracie, a young girl who lived through the Corbin Miners’ Strike of 1935. Gracie is inspired by an interview I conducted with a woman, now in her 90s, who was a child at the time.