Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania (Keystone Books)

ISBN: 0271036818

Author: Jacobs, Ren

Condition: Used

First published in 1986, Slow Burn chronicles Centralias demise from an underground coal mine fire and depicts a singular epic event in Pennsylvania history, representing the confluence of environmental, scientific, bureaucratic, and emotional tragedies. As an award-winning photojournalist, Jacobs moved into a house in Centralias impact zone in 1983 to document in photographs and interviews the end stages of the tiny anthracite coal towns unsuccessful fight to resolve the intractable problems that began with the mine fire in 1962 and culminated in the razing of the town by the federal government.