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Book Synopsis An Appalachian Tragedy by : Harvard Ayers
Download or read book An Appalachian Tragedy written by Harvard Ayers and published by Sierra Club Books for Children. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All along the Appalachian Mountains, from Maine to Georgia, trees are dying, weakened from decades of air pollution. With stunning full-color photography and an impassioned text, AN APPALACHIAN TRAGEDY documents the damage that has already been done and warns of the fearful consequences for the future. 200 color photos.
Download or read book Cades Cove written by Durwood Dunn and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1988-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on a rich trove of documents never before available to scholars, the author sketches the early pioneers, their daily lives, their beliefs, and their struggles to survive and prosper in this isolated mountain community, now within the confines of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In moving detail this book brings to life an isolated mountain community, its struggle to survive, and the tragedy of its demise." -- Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis When You Find My Body by : D. Dauphinee
Download or read book When You Find My Body written by D. Dauphinee and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geraldine Largay vanished in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive.
Book Synopsis Tragedy on Greasy Ridge by : Danny Fulks
Download or read book Tragedy on Greasy Ridge written by Danny Fulks and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Somewhere in the Pacific by : Billie Jean Craft
Download or read book Somewhere in the Pacific written by Billie Jean Craft and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of a man going off to war, leaving his wife and four children vulnerable to the world. The story is told by his granddaughter, with the help of information collected by family and friends. This is the story of what happened to her grandparents in the 1930's as they waited for him to leave for battle. He would never return.After his death, the family endured numerous struggles until one morning her whole family would be changed forever by tradgedy. Forty years following her mother's death the granddaughter is ready to tell the story of the worst crime in the history of her community- a tragic crime that would affect her family forever.
Book Synopsis The American Chestnut Blight by : Cory Joe Stewart
Download or read book The American Chestnut Blight written by Cory Joe Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Appalachian Forest by : Chris Bolgiano
Download or read book The Appalachian Forest written by Chris Bolgiano and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent account of Appalachia's past and future. Since European settlement, Appalachia's natural history has been profoundly impacted by the people who have lived, worked, and traveled there. Bolgiano's journey explores the influx of settlers, Native American displacement, lumber and coal exploitation, the birth of forestry, and conservation issues. 37 photos.
Download or read book Uneven Ground written by Ronald D. Eller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII. Appalachia has played a complex role in the unfolding of American history. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of material production and technology decried what they saw as a the isolation and backwardness of the region and sought to “uplift” its people through education and industrialization. In Uneven Ground, Ronald D. Eller examines the politics of development in Appalachia while exploring the idea of progress as it has evolved in America. “Passionate, clear, concise, and at times profound,” this volume demonstrates that Appalachia's struggle to overcome poverty, to live in harmony with the land, and to respect the value of community is a truly American story (Chad Berry, author of Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles). Winner of the Appalachian Studies Association’s Weatherford Award and the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Award
Book Synopsis Tragedy and the Appalachian Woman by : Linda Summers Layfield
Download or read book Tragedy and the Appalachian Woman written by Linda Summers Layfield and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plundering Appalachia by : Tom Butler
Download or read book Plundering Appalachia written by Tom Butler and published by Earth Aware Editions. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Appalachian mountain range is the oldest in the world and it's disappearing one mountain top at a time. Plundering Appalachia takes a bold look at the out-of-control strip mining in the American heartland and its threat to our environment. The Appalachians are the oldest mountains in the world, and they are literally disappearing. The term “mountaintop removal mining,” coined to describe the coal-mining process currently at work in much of Appalachia, is in reality, exactly what the name suggests: a mountain, formed over millions of years, is decapitated with explosives—the “overburden” scraped into adjacent valleys—and the exposed coal collected. No living thing survives this “removal,” and if the land is replanted, its ecosystem will be nothing like that of the ancient mountaintop it previously held. The process is not only destructive and toxic, but ultimately unsustainable: not one of the four hundred plus mountains blasted has yet grown back. Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays presenting the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining: The effects of the blasting on the environment and the people and animals in its wake. The irreversible devastation of the natural landscape of Appalachia. How mountaintop removal is or is not regulated The true costs of the practice over time. Most people in the United States are connected to mountaintop removal in some way. Even if they have never visited the Appalachians, they consume products derived from the mining haul or they are affected by the drastic changes the mining has on their ecosystem. The contributors to Plundering Appalachia clearly wish to empower a nation to action—to get past the rhetoric of the coal industry and see the real Appalachia. It is a plea for a region whose natural beauty deserves to be enjoyed by future generations. Includes essays by: David W. Orr, Vivian Stockman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ross Gelbspan, Richard Heinberg, Carl Pope, Denise Giardina, Lisa Evans, Ken Hechler, Jerry Hardt, Wendell Berry and more.
Book Synopsis Did You Think I Would Tell? by : Annie Pelfrey-Hill
Download or read book Did You Think I Would Tell? written by Annie Pelfrey-Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Pelfrey- Hill describes her southern up bringing at the foot hills of, The Appalachian Mountains. She releases to the world her account of years of torture, horrid abuse and child molestation she and her beloved sisters endured and how many lives were affected and changed. The destruction and damage that was created by abusing the children.
Book Synopsis Appalachian Diary by : Kimberly S. Brown
Download or read book Appalachian Diary written by Kimberly S. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Smith and his family live in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the Appalachian Mountains during the early part of the 21st Century, when the world is changing quickly. That hard mountain rock proved poor help when it came to digging a garden, and the black coal that grew deep in those hills was a blessing, and a curse. Coal is plentiful, and it gives Harlan a reason for existing in the middle of the Appalachian Mountain range in Eastern Kentucky. The coal gives many men jobs who are no hands at farming or tinkering, and who understand hard work. The coal kills many of them, too. Some die fast in blasts and accidents and roof falls. Some die slow from claustrophobic, lung-packing, back-breaking work six days a week. Luke's family had moved to Harlan when Luke was a boy. His father was a coal miner, and Luke remembered his brother, John, taking a job in the mine over near Black Hollow at age 10. He hadn't made it to 16. And Luke's father had coughed himself to an early grave. Luke, his wife, two daughters, two sons, and his extended family now must face the hardships of the time that gave 'Bloody Harlan' its nickname. Even though Luke and his family don't work in the mines themselves, friends, family, and strangers become tangled up in the harsh and bloody attempts to unionize the coal miners. Those attempts result in tragedy for the Smith family foretold by recurring dreams Luke has as we first get to know him. Luke has to decide his future, and the future of his family, when the fights between the miners and the mine owners and their ruffians hit too close to home to ignore them any longer. Luke runs a dairy and a store...with his store being one of the few outside of Harlan that isn't owned by a coal mine. That makes it an honest haven for the coal mining families who try to eek out a living without giving it all back to the mine owners. Luke is a businessman, but he also is a Christian man who attends church on Sundays and tries to do what is right. Into his life comes a young man from the city who is running from his own demons, and the destinies of the two men become entwined as the drama of Bloody Harlan unfolds around them. Luke decides to write in a diary about his thoughts and experiences to help him make sense of the craziness of the world. As one early entry stated: Sept. 12, 1941 "Times have not been easy here lately. Guess they've never been real easy, but they passed. Now I am wondering if these will ever pass. The depression has left us all hurting, some more than others. I thank the Lord that me and mine have a little land and this store and the will to work. There's some that don't have a little land, and some that don't have a job, and many that don't seem to have the will." You can witness the times and trials of those mountain people through Luke's eyes as he attempts to overcome his grief and anger while surviving not only the war between the unions and the mine owners, but the war in Europe that is creeping ever closer to becoming a reality for his country. As Luke faces his demons, he must decide whether to become an avenging angel or a man of God and peace. Through which will come his redemption? From the Author: Appalachian Diary is a written "docudrama" set in the times that Bloody Harlan got its nickname. Many of the stories that go on behind the scenes in this book are based on verbal accounts from people who lived in Harlan County, Kentucky, during that time-most of them my relatives! Many details of daily life come from information gleaned from my extended family and from a diary kept by my grandfather, who lived in Verda, Kentucky, just outside of Harlan. That diary served as the source of my inspiration for the content and the name of this novel. Some of the historic timelines have been altered for this fictional story to better condense some of the activities that took place over decades and generations. I hope you enjoy reading Appalachian Diary.
Book Synopsis A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills by : Geoffrey Smagacz
Download or read book A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills written by Geoffrey Smagacz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. As the Russian great Anton Chekov infamously noted, when a loaded rifle appears on page one, it absolutely must go off. In A WASTE OF SHAME Geoffrey Smagacz does not ignore this dramatic principle. Before the last page is turned, someone sadly pulls the trigger. Smagacz debuts a short novel and an accompanying collection of short stories written in a vein that carries the blood of Hemingway, Wodehouse, Nathaniel West, and Sherwood Anderson. Enter a small town where tragedy collides with fish fry cooks, soap-opera addicts, and the convenient but strained friendships of youth. Minimalist through and through, this is literary fiction that scrupulously avoids being literary. Eight of the stories/chapters collected in A WASTE OF SHAME have been previously published in print and online literary magazines, and the first chapter has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Book Synopsis Removing Mountains by : Rebecca R. Scott
Download or read book Removing Mountains written by Rebecca R. Scott and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.
Book Synopsis Thunder on the Mountain by : Peter A. Galuszka
Download or read book Thunder on the Mountain written by Peter A. Galuszka and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The searing true story of the rise, fall, and resurrection of Massey Energy, and the negligence that led to the death of 29 miners, exposing the coal-black motivations that fuel the ongoing war for the world's energy future.
Download or read book Ramp Hollow written by Steven Stoll and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.
Book Synopsis Tragedy in Tin Can Holler by : Rozetta Mowery
Download or read book Tragedy in Tin Can Holler written by Rozetta Mowery and published by Global Authors Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragic family history swept under the carpet and hidden in the floorboards of history! A vicious family history of sexual violence, deceit, adultery, blackmail, mystery and murder uncovered by the tortured mind of a child left to live in the poverty of the infamous Tin Can Holler.
