I'm enjoying this discussion, too. My dad, Howard MILLER, was born in Roda where he attended the first grade, then moved to Mendota, then I'm not sure where he lived when he attended Appalachia High School. Would he have lived in Appalachia, or could it have been one of the other nearby coal towns? Does anyone know what elementary school would have been in Roda & Mendota in the late 1920s? I have a videotape from the 1980s when he's traveling through Mendota, and he's pointing out where "Shepherd's store" used to be, and the school he attended was down the same street. Ann