Brice Rush still remembers his first King Coal Show. It came in 1957, when his dad took Rush and his twin brother to the show after they’d finished milking the cows at their dairy farm in Khedive. “He gave us each $1,” Rush said. “I spent mine on a Coke and hamburger, and still had 65 ...

In 1953, a few Carmichael residents partnered with organizations in the area to create a festival that would bring attention to the coal industry and the hard working miners who support it. One year later, The King Coal Association, which will hold its weeklong show Aug. 17-24, was ...

For the past 42 years, Brice and Linda Rush have been collecting, displaying, storing and archiving everything related to the coal industry. From union labor memorabilia to rare hard hat stickers to the original login records of area coal mines, the Carmichaels couple has gathered an ...