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Matewan

Town in Mingo County, in the far southwest of West Virginia; population (1990) 600. Matewan lies on Tug Fork, which marks the Kentucky border, 100 km/62 mi southwest of Charleston. The town is at the centre of a coalmining region, and was the scene of violent labour disputes in 1920.
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Several have been set in the recent past: Matewan centres on a coalminers' strike in the 1920s; Eight Men Out looks at the commercialisation of baseball and the fixing of the 1919 World Series; and Baby It's You is about a middle-class Jewish girl embroiled in the cultural turmoil of the 1960s.
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