Luzerne County artist’s paintings of coal miners on slate on display at Yuengling mansion – Pottsville Republican Herald
POTTSVILLE — When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the coal fields of Luzerne County, the young Hartz developed a deep respect for miners who toiled amid darkness…