By Richard Davies Richard Davies directs the media program at Merthyr Tydfill College in the former South Wales coalfields. In October 2014, Davies presented to youth in the eastern Kentucky coalfields and shared lessons from his work in former mining communities.  He writes about his experience exchanging ideas among mining communities.   I was born, live and work in Merthyr Tydfil. Merthyr is a former iron and steel town on the northern edge of the south Wales coalfield. My family is from lower down the valley, in the former steam coal mining villages of Pentrebach and Aberfan. I teach film and video in the local college. My main academic interest is documentary theory and production, which I combine with filmmaking.   One of the themes of After Coal is a comparison of the experiences of the people of south Wales and Appalachia in relation to coal mining and the cultural […]