Buffalo Creek Disaster and the Culture it Helped Shape
Document Type
Panel Presentation
Keywords
West Virginia, Culture, Disaster, History
Biography
My name is Savannah Duncan and I am a current student at Marshall majoring in History and minoring in Religious Studies. I am the Vice-President of the History Club at Marshall, and I have plans to apply to the History Department's graduate program to receive a Master's in History. I have always had a passion to learn about History and how it affects our current views and culture.
Major
History
Advisor for this project
Laura Diener
Abstract
This paper talks about the Buffalo Creek Disaster and how the survivors and the community tried to build back to some form of normalcy. After reviewing information about the area, we can see how the community has shifted its views and created a culture that is distrustful of outsiders and wary of big corporations. It is a cultural view that is all too common in Appalachia, and Buffalo Creek is one of the first of many to be forced into this mindset. This tragedy and the impact it had on the victims led to the start of a cultural shift in Appalachia. This led to a deep and enriching culture with a strong sense of community, and a group of people that will never forget the disaster that happened in Buffalo Creek.
Buffalo Creek Disaster and the Culture it Helped Shape
This paper talks about the Buffalo Creek Disaster and how the survivors and the community tried to build back to some form of normalcy. After reviewing information about the area, we can see how the community has shifted its views and created a culture that is distrustful of outsiders and wary of big corporations. It is a cultural view that is all too common in Appalachia, and Buffalo Creek is one of the first of many to be forced into this mindset. This tragedy and the impact it had on the victims led to the start of a cultural shift in Appalachia. This led to a deep and enriching culture with a strong sense of community, and a group of people that will never forget the disaster that happened in Buffalo Creek.
