Travel back to a turn-of-the-century coal town and experience the everyday life of a coal miner and his family. State-of-the-art exhibits, media presentations and archives also chronicle the evolution of coal mining technology, the struggle for unionization and the impact of the Berwind-White Co. and the coal industry has on small, rural areas. An interactive bituminous coal mining museum - open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, May 1 thru October 31. Windber miners didn't start the fires of industry but they fueled them!