We’ll be back in the spring “When the leaves come out.”  If you signed up for email notification–well there were…technical difficulties. 

Unfortunately, we got a few emails each time we re-installed the form and then, poof–setting change–and the email function broke again.  So, thanks for signing up, but I guess you’ll just have to check back here anyway.  Sorry about that.

What have we been doing in the meantime? 

Books! — We have two children’s books coming out on March 8th.

At any rate, we plan to see you with regular Bullpush posts again soon!

What’s coming up next?

• First Hand Accounts of Mining Disasters
• The Boomer Rebellion of 1909
• The Paint and Cabin Creek War

Why the phrase ‘When the Leaves Come Out?’

Ralph Chaplin was a labor activist, artist, and poet who supported the Paint Creek Miners by coordinating with them, smuggling supplies and information, and reporting on the struggle.  He spoke of a being with a miner as he bled out and  then described a later encounter with a teenager during the winter months wearing torn breeches that had bullet holes through them who said he couldn’t wait for When the Leaves Come Out when they’d have cover and be able to take the fight to the operators again.  Below is the poem Ralph published shortly afterward.

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