True Stories from Mine Hole

by Leonard C. Cooke and Audrey S. Lawson

A rowdy and raucous but hardworking and caring African American

community lived in Mine Hole in the 1920s and 1930s. Leonard Cooke's

personal recollections, as written down by Audrey Lawson, describe life

in this community that bordered Sparkill Creek in Piermont. True Stories

of Mine Hole won the Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies

and Museums’ Award for Excellence in 2004.

ISBN: 0-911183-49-3; paper

2003, illus.