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Download or read book 40 Patchtown written by Damian Dressick and published by Appalachian Writing. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by incidents during the 1922 coal strike in Pennsylvania, Dressick spent months researching the rhythms of early coal town life. Interviewing family members, he immersed himself in the coal heritage materials, many housed at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Frederick Barthelme states "Dressick is an artist to be reckoned with."
Download or read book Patch Town written by Robert Parlante and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widower for three years. Frequent periods of unemployment throughout his life. Unresolved anger. A fragmented family that cannot deal with a father spiraling downward. When Martin receives a letter from his old eighth grade teacher asking him to forgive her for a painful childhood accusation, he is overwhelmed once again by his hatred for Miss Wingate, blaming her for much of what went wrong in his life. His son and daughter eventually help him take reluctant steps to forgive the teacher he wished was long dead. He also meets recently-divorced Linda who brings a flow of freshness into his life. She encourages Martin to visit this teacher, now dying from dementia in a nursing home. Along his journey to the coal mining community of his childhood, strangers enter his life compelling him to confront his past and unsure future—helping him move from failure to forgiveness and spiritual redemption.
Book Synopsis Statistical Yearbook by : Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
Download or read book Statistical Yearbook written by Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patchtown written by Jolene Busher and published by Sunbury PressInc. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patchtown is a collection of historical fiction vignettes, based on real people who lived and worked in the anthracite coal company-owned town of Eckley, Pennsylvania. With the use of the United States census records from 1860-1920, each decade from the Eckley census records will come to life through the narratives of the men, women, and children who lived and worked at the Council Ridge Colliery in Eckley, Pennsylvania. Through combining historical research and artistic license, Patchtown's personas involve themselves in the living and working conditions, and social events that defined the anthracite coal fields of Northeastern Pennsylvania. In each decade's chapter, Patchtown's personas will be directly or indirectly affected by local and national events such as the 1877 Molly Maguire trials, the Lattimer Massacre, the Strike of 1902, and the other industrial and social events specific to Northeastern Pennsylvania and anthracite patchtowns.
Book Synopsis Fables of the Deconstruction by : Damian Dressick
Download or read book Fables of the Deconstruction written by Damian Dressick and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not unlike his literary forebearers Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover, Damian Dressick brings us a crackling series of dispatches fresh from the postmodernist front. This daring gathering of brief, innovative stories tantalizes the intellect nearly as much as it illuminates the human heart. Drawing from his quiver of flash fictions, prose poems, lists, pie charts and micros, Dressick's narratives are fully engaged with the wild disorder that everyday feels more and more like the sine qua non of our fractured now. Meet meth-addicted grizzly bears, a coal mining Jesus, grieving alcoholic parents, and murderous villagers whose only speech is culinary in this fleeting edge tour de force....Fables of the Deconstruction. PRAISE FOR FABLES OF THE DECONSTRUCTION "This collection of sixty-three stories is as rich and varied as a patisserie, as nasty and brutish as a Japanese architect in the mid-sixties, as delicate as the swift-moving scents in the coastal air at midnight. To call these stories short-shorts or "flash fiction" is to do them a disservice. While some are indeed short, and many are pleasantly flashy, every one hits home with the weight of boxer's punch, every one is more beautiful, and more fun, than the last. This is a first rate performance by an artist to be reckoned with." -Frederick Barthelme, author of There Must Be Some Mistake "Like Donald Barthelme, Damian Dressick finds himself on the leading edge of the junk phenomena. The thingness of things falls apart delightfully right before our dilated eyes. Fun for the whole goddamn nuclear family." -Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone "Fables of the Deconstruction is funny, sad, dreamy, and brutal. The stories here veer off in strange directions, happily disobedient to the conventions that plague so much of our current grindingly cautious literature. This is a credit to Damian Dressick, an excitable and exciting new writer who will probably be a big deal someday and, in fact, if you check your heart, already is." -Steve Almond, author of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life "Damian Dressick writes with gusto and sly humor, and Fables of the Deconstruction introduces a bold and robust new voice of impressive range. A heady debut." -Gary Lutz, author of The Complete Gary Lutz "Damian Dressick's Fables of the Deconstruction expertly explores the question: why not? Wandering through Dressick's terrain, you can leave your own (real) life behind for a while. Sit back and enjoy. This little book will make you both happy and sad-with footnotes." -Sherrie Flick author of I Call This Flirting and Reconsidering Happiness
Book Synopsis Thalia: A Texas Trilogy by : Larry McMurtry
Download or read book Thalia: A Texas Trilogy written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, “an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold” (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia. Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms McMurtry’s “full- blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) to a love triangle involving a cowboy, his rancher boss and wife, and finally to the hardscrabble citizens of an oil- patch town trying to keep their only movie house alive, McMurtry captures the stark realities of the West like no one else. With a new introduction, Thalia emerges as an American classic that celebrates one of our greatest literary masters. *Just named in 2017 by Publishers Weekly the #1 Western novel worthy of rediscovery.
Download or read book Western Pennsylvania Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Department of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :360 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Site Plan, Interpretive Prospectus, Design Guidelines Windber/Scalp Level Coal Heritage Project, America's Industrial Heritage Project, Windber and Scalp Level Boroughs by : United States. Department of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission
Download or read book Site Plan, Interpretive Prospectus, Design Guidelines Windber/Scalp Level Coal Heritage Project, America's Industrial Heritage Project, Windber and Scalp Level Boroughs written by United States. Department of the Interior. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Salem Township and Delmont by : Tracy Searight
Download or read book Salem Township and Delmont written by Tracy Searight and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 1885, Salem Township's supply of coal attracted companies to build mines and "coal patch" towns. In 1916, Slickville was the last coal patch town built in Salem Township. When the demand for soft coal declined, the companies abandoned the mines, leaving the towns to survive on their own. Delmont, originally known as Salem Crossroads or New Salem, is one of the oldest boroughs in Westmoreland County. Formed around a spring that was eventually piped to a watering trough that still remains, Delmont boasted a busy stagecoach route and was one of the main stagecoach stops on the Northern Turnpike. The arrival of the railroad left little need for stagecoaches, but Delmont continued to survive. In 1993, the Pennsylvania Turnpike 66 opened just south of Delmont in Salem Township, bringing promise to a community once disappointed by Northern Turnpike's decline. Salem Township and Delmont provides a glimpse into the rich history of these communities.
Book Synopsis Less Than an Eagle, More Than a Duck and Other Stuff by : Mildred Dennis
Download or read book Less Than an Eagle, More Than a Duck and Other Stuff written by Mildred Dennis and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'Winter's Crystal Moments' through 'Red Dirt Mama' to 'Less Than An Eagle, More Than A Duck', the author reaches out to the reader with thought-provoking vignettes of faith to celebrate life. Spend a minute or even longer in the pages of this inspiring book. Choose 'Way To Go Buddy' and discover the joy of a little boy standing for the first time or join Aunt Lizzie as she weaves her technicolor magic with 'Rags To Rugs.' Find out what it is that's 'Not For Sale!' Become a part of the tribute to 'The Ordinary Man' or experience the courage and deep faith as the author shares the struggles and triumphs of her husband's massive stroke in 'Less Than An Eagle, More Than A Duck. Millie has a way of inviting you in and making you feel at home as you become a part of each anecdote that's captured in her own unique 'red-dirt' way of visiting.
Book Synopsis Blue Skies, No Fences by : Lynne Cheney
Download or read book Blue Skies, No Fences written by Lynne Cheney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's ancestry, as well as that of her vice president husband, from seventeenth-century America through the mid-twentieth century, in a memoir that also describes their youth, marriage, and shared role as parents and offers practical suggestions on how to conduct genealogical research. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Download or read book Pennsylvania Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States by : American Film Institute
Download or read book AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to the National Road by : Karl B. Raitz
Download or read book A Guide to the National Road written by Karl B. Raitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion volume to The National Road is a traveler's guide to the nation's first federally funded highway. Combining a wealth of historical and geographical information, this book takes readers on a 700-mile journey through America's heartland, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Mississippi River. Illustrated with more than 300 maps and lithographs, this authoritative gudie leads us down a trail into our nation's past.
Book Synopsis Some Things about Coventry-Benton, New Hampshire by : William Frederick Whitcher
Download or read book Some Things about Coventry-Benton, New Hampshire written by William Frederick Whitcher and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory by :
Download or read book N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania by : Edward K. Muller
Download or read book Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania written by Edward K. Muller and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
