Book Description
Ethan and Ashton learn from their father what coal is used for, how it forms, and how important it is to West Virginia.
Author : Casey Erwin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,56 MB
Release : 2007-12
Category : Children's books
ISBN : 1434346315
Ethan and Ashton learn from their father what coal is used for, how it forms, and how important it is to West Virginia.
Author : Loretta Lynn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307741230
Tying in with the publication of the singer's long-awaited autobiographical sequel--"Still Woman Enough"--this is the original autobiography of the girl from Butcher Holler. of photos.
Author : Linda DeRosier
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0813127017
Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman. DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. She remains unabashedly honest about and proud of her mountain heritage. Now a college professor, decades and notions removed from the creeks and hollows, DeRosier knows that her roots run deep in her memory and language and in her approach to the world. DeRosier describes an Appalachia of complexity and beauty rarely seen by outsiders. Hers was a close-knit world; she says she was probably eleven or twelve years old before she ever spoke to a stranger. She lovingly remembers the unscheduled, day-long visits to friends and family, when visitors cheerfully joined in the day's chores of stringing beans or bedding out sweet potatoes. No advance planning was needed for such trips. Residents of Two-Mile Creek were like family, and everyone was ""delighted to see each other wherever, whenever, and for however long."" Creeker is a story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present. It also recalls one woman's struggle to make and keep a sense of self while remaining loyal to the people and traditions that sustained her along life's way. Told with wit, candor, and zest, this is Linda Scott DeRosier's answer to the question familiar in Appalachia--""Who are your people?""
Author : Sr. Claude L. Greene
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1440196559
Work in the coal mines, social hour at the barber shop, and making moonshine in the Tennessee hills isn't fun if you can't laugh about it! Here is a hilarious anthology of jokes and anecdotes about life in the mountains and much much more! I have been a barber for 45 years, everyone knows that a lot of hair gets on the floor and everyone talks about what to do with it. I hear you can put it around the house to keep the deer out, so I tried something new I put the hair around the tomatoes. I had some beautiful tomatoes but I had to shave them before I could eat them. One of my uncles was the biggest whiskey man in Tennessee he made moonshine whiskey for 45 years. I will tell you how good his whiskey was, a man moved up on the mountain, he had a wooden leg he started drinking the new whiskey called Block and Tackle. A few months later he noticed sprouts were growing on his leg, he had to carry a axe to keep the sprouts cut off.
Author : J. a. Alspach
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1607911868
Author : Ann Pancake
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1619025108
Ann Pancake's 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow–up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land––sometimes through love, sometimes through hate––and who experience brokenness and loss, redemption and revelation, often through their relationships to places under siege. Retired strip miners find themselves victimized by the industry that supported them; a family breaks down along generation lines over a fracking lease; children transcend addict parents and adult suicide; an urban woman must confront her skepticism about worlds behind this one when she finds bones through a mysterious force she can't name. Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley explores poverty, class, environmental breakdown and social collapse while also affirming the world's sacredness. Ann Pancake's ear for the Appalachian dialect is both pitch–perfect and respectful, that of one who writes from the heart of this world. Her firsthand knowledge of her rural place and her exquisite depictions of the intricacies of families may remind one of Alice Munro.
Author : Charles Bright
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1312475714
When a methane gas explosion kills 151 coal miners in a small Illinois town, the residents find themselves splashed across the front page of every newspaper in the country. Three days after the fatal explosion, three miners are still missing and rescue efforts are underway amid the turmoil of reports of a failed Federal Safety Inspection, rumors of possible cover-ups and Communist espionage, and visits from heavy-hitting politicians, union labor leaders, government agents, and newspaper reporters. An award-winner in the Writer's Digest International Play Competition, the action in this two-act play captures a microcosm of small-town intrigues, lives, and loves while dealing with the problem of mine safety issues which still plague the country today. Note: This fictional play is based on the Centralia and West Frankfort, Illinois coal mine disasters in the mid 20th century which hit the headlines again with the mining disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia in April, 2010. Some things never seem to change...
Author : Anya Westmoreland Thompson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1514426951
Ask For A Miracle is an autobiographical story by Anya Westmoreland Haisha Thompson. Her story begins with an abusive childhood, includes a serious accident involving her eldest daughter and ends with cancer. Those life challenges started her on a healing journey to understand herself and her life. Despite her many challenges, she lived a life filled with love and beauty. Everyone she met fell in love with her beautiful soul. As she evolved, her beliefs about what it takes to be a successful and empowered person shifted dramatically. Writing this book in the last year of her life fulfilled her dream to pass on her wisdom and knowledge to her six grandchildren and anyone else who reads it.
Author : William Arnett
Publisher : Tinwood Books
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780965376631
The first comprehensive overview of an important genre of American art, Souls Grown Deep explores the visual-arts genius of the black South. This first work in a multivolume study introduces 40 African-American self-taught artists, who, without significant formal training, often employ the most unpretentious and unlikely materials. Like blues and jazz artists, they create powerful statements amplifying the call for freedom and vision.
Author : Loretta Lynn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307742687
Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry. Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential songwriters and singers in modern country music. Here we see the determination and talent that led to her trailblazing career and made her the first woman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association and the first woman to receive a gold record in country music.