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Book Synopsis Letcher County by : Deborah Adams Cooper
Download or read book Letcher County written by Deborah Adams Cooper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1795, when Peter Whitaker built the first known settlement on what is now Linefork Creek, Letcher Countians have demonstrated the perseverance and fortitude for which Appalachian people are known. The majesty of Pine Mountain in the south of the county or the rare beauty of old-growth forests that became Lilley Cornett Woods must have brought Daniel Boone to seek a paradise in "Kanta-ke." Whitesburg and Letcher County have seen their resources of timber, oil, and coal bring growth, as well as decline. With the rise of the coal industry before World War I came a steady flow of Eastern European immigrants who contributed a new and exciting perspective on life, business, and art. It was Italian stonemason John Palumbo Sr. who led other Italians to Whitesburg because the beauty of it reminded him of his home in the Campania region of Southern Italy. The churches, homes, and buildings they established stand in homage to their energy and skill.
Book Synopsis Letcher County, Kentucky by : William T. Cornett
Download or read book Letcher County, Kentucky written by William T. Cornett and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Corporal Fess Whitaker by : Fess Whitaker
Download or read book History of Corporal Fess Whitaker written by Fess Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster.
Book Synopsis Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area by : Harry M. Claudill
Download or read book Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area written by Harry M. Claudill and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.
Book Synopsis History of Letcher County, Kentucky by : Isaac Anderson Bowles
Download or read book History of Letcher County, Kentucky written by Isaac Anderson Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letcher County, Kentucky by : Louise M. Perkins
Download or read book Letcher County, Kentucky written by Louise M. Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roxana written by Forester Hogg and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the late 1940s in Letcher County, Kentucky, and in the raucous mountain hamlet of Roxana, young Forester Hogg and his brother Jim court death daily as they try earnestly to emulate adult behaviors that would chill a mother's heart to learn of them. Dire family circumstances cause the boys to be placed with elderly foster parents, Bill and Mary, at the head Paces's Branch. These temporary "parents" live off the land and supplement their old-age pension with a secret moonshine still. And the boys adjust to a lifestyle that remains a century behind the times. It's a coming of age story that asks the question: why can't all life lessons just be funny, instead of painful, or embarrassing, or, as is usual with these two brothers, all three at the same time?
Book Synopsis The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by : John Fox
Download or read book The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come written by John Fox and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1993-01-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " This powerful novel is one of the most perceptive tellings of the Civil War experience.
Book Synopsis 1880 U.S. Census, Letcher County, Kentucky by : Wilma Parker Johnson
Download or read book 1880 U.S. Census, Letcher County, Kentucky written by Wilma Parker Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twilight in Hazard written by Alan Maimon and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.” —Associated Press From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . . When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region “like a foreign correspondent would.” And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times’s Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic—a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything—and nothing—you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon’s Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter’s immersion in a place, and of his return years later—this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner’s daughter—to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology. Twilight in Hazard refuses to mythologize Central Appalachia. It is a plea to move past the fixation on coal, and a reminder of the true costs to democracy when the media retreats from places of rural distress. It is an intimate portrait of a people staring down some of the most pernicious forces at work in America today while simultaneously being asked: How could you let this happen to yourselves? Twilight in Hazard instead tells the more riveting, noirish, and sometimes bitingly humorous story of how we all let this happen.
Book Synopsis Letcher County, Kentucky, 1860 Census by : Louise M. Perkins
Download or read book Letcher County, Kentucky, 1860 Census written by Louise M. Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1850 & 1880 U.S. Censuses Letcher County, Kentucky by : Dorothy Amburgey Griffith
Download or read book 1850 & 1880 U.S. Censuses Letcher County, Kentucky written by Dorothy Amburgey Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Family Histories of Letcher County by : Letcher County Historical and Genealogical Society (Ky.)
Download or read book Family Histories of Letcher County written by Letcher County Historical and Genealogical Society (Ky.) and published by . This book was released on 1994* with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1850 & 1880 U.S. Censuses, Letcher Co., Kentucky by :
Download or read book 1850 & 1880 U.S. Censuses, Letcher Co., Kentucky written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1880 U.S. Census, Letcher County, Kentucky by : Wilma Parker Johnson
Download or read book 1880 U.S. Census, Letcher County, Kentucky written by Wilma Parker Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky by : Lewis Collins
Download or read book Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky written by Lewis Collins and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1870 U.S. Census, Letcher County, Kentucky by : Wilma Parker Johnson
Download or read book 1870 U.S. Census, Letcher County, Kentucky written by Wilma Parker Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
