PICHER, Oklahoma (CNN)-- Wearing powder blue pants ... The walls of his pool hall -- the sign in the window says "Hoppy's Museum" -- are now papered with photos and artifacts.

University of Oklahoma (OU) researchers, in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Community Deep ...

In this story: images from Picher, the largest of the three mining ... the former zinc and lead mining region of northeast Oklahoma is now labeled as a Superfund site, the federal designation ...