I've written a series of articles for New Music Box on listening to the Little Cities of Black Diamonds in Appalachian Ohio. In them, I listen to protest and resistance, social life, and labor. I visit Robinson's Cave, attend a direct action training session, and observe protest in the Wayne National Forest against fracking; I record the Moonshine Festival and walk through the Tecumseh Theater; I spend a day at a gas well drill site, and listen to archival recordings of a mine inspector.
All of the articles can be found here: http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/author/brianharnetty/