The Works of Writer and Historian

Joshua Penrod

Underground

A ride into Beckley’s Exhibition Coal Mine becomes a journey through compressed sunlight, ancient forests, industrial power, and the human costs buried within Appalachia’s coal country.

A Return to an Underrated Battlefield

A return to Bushy Run reveals not only an overlooked colonial battlefield, but the many layers of memory, commemoration, landscape, and witness that have accumulated there since 1763.

These Restless Hills

At the height of the industrial Gilded Age, amidst the blazing fires of the steel mill and black depths of the coal mine, the chase is on.  Thomas Houghton, an inspector and enforcer for the…

About

A Cambria County native and resident, Joshua is an avid outdoorsman and auto enthusiast. When he is not working on his writings, you may find him in the fields, streams or streets of Pennsylvania, the United States, or even the world in pursuit of his next challenge or simply taking a joyride in one of his automobiles.