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Book Synopsis Appalachian Mountains Childhood Memories by : Mary Creech Johnson
Download or read book Appalachian Mountains Childhood Memories written by Mary Creech Johnson and published by Mary Creech Johnson. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic, short stories of life as it was lived in the Appalachian Mountains before, during and after World War II. Adventure, drama, tragedy, comedy, spiritual and history. A very good read. Mary Creech Johnson, Author
Book Synopsis An Appalachian Childhood by : Deany Brady
Download or read book An Appalachian Childhood written by Deany Brady and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Appalachian Childhood is a remarkable memoir about growing up on a small, hardscrabble farm in the mountains of Georgia. Deany Brady tells the story of her colorful childhood in the 1930s and 40s with freshness, humor, wit, and intelligence. She is a master storyteller, following in the vigorous oral tradition of her parents and her grandmother, who told vivid family stories all through her childhood. Following the arc of her young life, Brady beautifully captures her own growth from a daydreaming child, creating mansions out of moss and sticks, and gazing at the famous people in the newspapers covering the walls, to a girl in love with language and writing, whose greatest happiness is to read all of Gone with the Wind to her mother by the wash stream one magical summer. Unusual in her Appalachian community, the young Deany yearns not only to complete her high school education but to find a way to better her own life and that of her family's, by moving to the big city of Atlanta and hoping to gain a college education. Even as Deany's life grows more intricate and challenging, and even as she makes her own mistakes in her urge to escape the constraints of Appalachia, she holds onto her dream of a life filled with knowledge, happiness and beauty.An Appalachian Childhood is the first half of a two-part memoir. It covers Deany Brady's first twenty-two years. The second half, Higher than Yonder Mountain, is forthcoming. This second volume follows her grown-up life's arc from Georgia to Miami Beach, to Park Avenue in New York, and ultimately to her life as a writer in California.
Book Synopsis The Comfort Zone by : Kenneth a Luikart
Download or read book The Comfort Zone written by Kenneth a Luikart and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comfort Zone: Growing Up in Appalachia by Kenneth A. Luikart is a nonfiction humorous memoir that tells the story of the author's childhood and young adulthood growing up in the Appalachian Mountains. This collection of stories is filled with humor and comedy, from stories of hunting and fishing in wild Appalachia, to tales of building forts and treehouses with brothers and friends. Playful childhood memories and imagination is clear on every page. The Comfort Zone will keep readers rolling on the floor laughing. The stories create a feeling of nostalgia and longing for simpler times of growing up in 1950s and 1960s America. Readers will also be immersed in the landscape and beauty of Appalachia, giving outsiders a picture of life, culture, and nature in the Appalachian Mountains. Autobiography; memoir; nonfiction; humor; hillbilly; redneck; Virginia; Appalachia; Appalachian Mountains; funny memoirs; coming of age.
Download or read book Hill Women written by Cassie Chambers and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “A gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities and the resourceful women who lead them.”—Slate Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Granny’s daughter, Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish college. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her “hill women” values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues from domestic violence to the opioid crisis, but they are also keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.
Book Synopsis Memories of an Appalachian Childhood by : Marilyn Moss
Download or read book Memories of an Appalachian Childhood written by Marilyn Moss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comfort Zone by : Kenneth a Luikart
Download or read book The Comfort Zone written by Kenneth a Luikart and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comfort Zone: Growing Up in Appalachia by Kenneth A. Luikart is a nonfiction humorous memoir that tells the story of the author's childhood and young adulthood growing up in the Appalachian Mountains. This collection of stories is filled with humor and comedy, from stories of hunting and fishing in wild Appalachia, to tales of building forts and treehouses with brothers and friends. Playful childhood memories and imagination is clear on every page. The Comfort Zone will keep readers rolling on the floor laughing. The stories create a feeling of nostalgia and longing for simpler times of growing up in 1950s and 1960s America. Readers will also be immersed in the landscape and beauty of Appalachia, giving outsiders a picture of life, culture, and nature in the Appalachian Mountains. Autobiography; memoir; nonfiction; humor; hillbilly; redneck; Virginia; Appalachia; Appalachian Mountains; funny memoirs; coming of age.
Book Synopsis The Red Flannel Rag by : Peggy Ann Shifflett
Download or read book The Red Flannel Rag written by Peggy Ann Shifflett and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Child of the Mountains by : Marilyn Sue Shank
Download or read book Child of the Mountains written by Marilyn Sue Shank and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's about keeping the faith. Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn't bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her tight-knit family. There's her loving mama, now widowed; her whip-smart younger brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis; and wise old Gran. But everything falls apart after Gran and BJ die and Mama is jailed unjustly. Suddenly Lydia has lost all those dearest to her. Moving to a coal camp to live with her uncle William and aunt Ethel Mae only makes Lydia feel more alone. She is ridiculed at her new school for her outgrown homemade clothes and the way she talks, and for what the kids believe her mama did. And to make matters worse, she discovers that her uncle has been keeping a family secret—about her. If only Lydia, with her resilient spirit and determination, could find a way to clear her mother's name. . . .
Book Synopsis Growing Up in a Holler in the Mountains by : Karen Gravelle
Download or read book Growing Up in a Holler in the Mountains written by Karen Gravelle and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a description of contemporary life in the Appalachian Region of Kentucky while focusing on the home and activities of ten-year-old Joseph Ratliff and his family.
Book Synopsis Appalachian Memories by : Janet Rice
Download or read book Appalachian Memories written by Janet Rice and published by Mountain Magic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appalachian Memory by : Mary Jane Salyers
Download or read book Appalachian Memory written by Mary Jane Salyers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Appalachian Memory: A Survivor's Tale Harvey Campbell recalls his growing up years before, during, and after the Civil War. Young Harvey's life turns upside down when his well-to-do family leaves their comfortable life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to establish a logging company, in the wild mountains of southeastern Kentucky. Added to this uprooting, an older brother makes his life more miserable with ridicule, insults, and other abusive treatment. But young Harvey finds consolation in the annual steamboat trips the family makes to visit family in Pittsburgh and in his new friendship with Evan, the son of a neighbor. Together they explore the mountainsides and become close friends despite their families' choosing opposite sides in the slavery dispute. As the conflict over slavery brings destruction, chaos, divisions and death to Harvey's family, his friendships, his Kentucky homeland, and his nation, Harvey's own loyalties are tested, and he must choose between standing with his family or with his heart. His efforts to seek revenge for the injustices he feels turns into a long journey through mountains, towns, and cities from Kentucky through Virginia to Washington D.C, and even to Chicago. Harvey's saga lets us see Civil War history through the eyes of an everyday teenage soldier plunged into its midst, including the battles of Lynchburg, Monocacy, and Fort Stevens, and the Camp Douglas Prison in Chicago. All along this extended journey he meets interesting people-some seek to take advantage of his youth and inexperience, but most give him a helping hand. Fortunately, in the midst of all these difficulties he finds someone to love. When the war ends, Harvey returns to his family's logging business in Kentucky, but finally he realizes he must become independent and strikes out on his own. Eventually he builds his own house in Tennessee, where seventy years later Harvey's great-granddaughter Maggie Martin, the main character in Appalachian Daughter will be born. Harvey has finally become a man-an Appalachian mountain man. Appalachian Memory: A Survivor's Tale is a story of survival-of the wilderness, of Civil War, of family conflict, of sickness and injury, of death and grief-but it is also a story of adventure, friendship, loyalty, bravery, determination, hope, and love.
Book Synopsis Grandpap Told Me Tales by : James Taylor Adams
Download or read book Grandpap Told Me Tales written by James Taylor Adams and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Running on Red Dog Road by : Drema Hall Berkheimer
Download or read book Running on Red Dog Road written by Drema Hall Berkheimer and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn’t. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it Red Dog. My grandmother always told me, ‘Don’t you go running on that Red Dog road.’ But oh, I did.” Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema’s childhood in 1940s Appalachia after Drema’s father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema’s coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, jitterbug lessons, and traveling carnivals, and though it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own. Running On Red Dog Road is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.
Book Synopsis A Foxfire Christmas by : Eliot Wigginton
Download or read book A Foxfire Christmas written by Eliot Wigginton and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paperback This captivating book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families as passed from one generation to the next. Based on Foxfire students' interviews with neighbors and family members, the memories shared here are from a simpler time, when gifts were fewer but perhaps more precious, and holiday tables were laden with traditional favorites. More than just reminiscences, however, A Foxfire Christmas includes instructions for recreating many of the ornaments, toys, and recipes that make up so many family traditions, from Chicken and Dumplings to Black Walnut Cake, and from candy pulls to corn husk dolls and hand-whittled toy cars.
Download or read book Mountain Memory written by Romulus Linney and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play follows the lives of a family of settlers in the Appalachian Mountains. Father has found a plot of land which pleases him greatly, despite the fact that it is on a mountain slope and not in the more fertile farming land of the v
Book Synopsis The Red Flannel Rag by : Peggy A. Shifflett
Download or read book The Red Flannel Rag written by Peggy A. Shifflett and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Appalachian Boy's Life by : Flem R. Messer
Download or read book An Appalachian Boy's Life written by Flem R. Messer and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since my retirement in 2009, I have taken a great deal of time to look back on the past 81 years of my life. I have had an extraordinary variety of experiences going back to a world of almost no education in one-room schools, which I dropped out of in the fourth grade at age 15. We were totally dependent on the land because that is where we grew and harvested almost all of our food with the help of mule-drawn plows and wood burning stove to prepare what we ate. Even though I was born in 1935, the experiences of my life have spanned three centuries. During the first 10 years of my life, the way we lived was no different than the way my great grandparents lived who were born in the 1860s. There were no modern conveniences of any kind during the first 10 to 15 years of my life. Unlike most of what has been written about the Appalachian communities, ours was a cooperative barter society where people worked together and always helped each other when there was a need. I am extremely fortunate to now live in a world where I can speak my memories into a microphone and my computer automatically converts them into typed text. I have had the opportunity to know and work with many wonderful people down through the decades. Unfortunately, most of my childhood friends never had the opportunity to explore the world the way I have been privileged to do.
