Closing coal mines are breaking up that old gang of 65-year-old John Garber.

But Garber says he is happy despite the fact he is the lone inhabitant of Colorado, Pennsylvania, a community near Shenandoah that once was home of some 1,000 people.

Colorado is a mining village in the hard coal region of Schuylkill County, the place where Garber was born, educated and worked in the coal mines before retiring.

Family after family left the community, including the last to leave, the Romanices family of five, when the mines began closing down, until eventually Garber became the lone resident of the village.