Trouble! At Coal Creek is a dramatic retelling of the 1891-92 Coal Creek War. Through the eyes of a coal miner's son, it tells the story of a mining community in East Tennessee that stood its own against the combined forces of the State and corporate interests in the post-Reconstruction South.
Austin Sauerbrei
Austin Sauerbrei is a community organizer and sequential artist based in Tennessee. He currently serves as the Director for Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM), a 53-year old, member-led organization dedicated to empowering everyday Tennesseans in their efforts to have a greater voice in determining their own future. Prior to this, Austin spent years as a neighborhood and tenant organizer in Nashville, and then as a labor organizer in Chattanooga and Knoxville. A lifelong comics enthusiast, Austin practices visual storytelling as a form of popular education. He and his wife, the Rev. Claire Brown, live in Athens, TN with their three children.