Author : Sue Pickett
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 160306334X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Book Synopsis The Path Was Steep by : Sue Pickett
Download or read book The Path Was Steep written by Sue Pickett and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sue Pickett was a coal miner’s daughter who became a coal miner’s wife and witnessed and lived through the turbulent years of the Great Depression and the sometimes violent struggles between labor unions and coal mine bosses throughout the Appalachian South—especially her native Alabama. The dramatic central episode in her account is a March 1934 standoff between striking miners and the mine owners. Pickett’s story is peopled with memorable characters, including her irrepressible husband David and an almost Biblical cast of other family members; a roaring, fire-belching automobile nicknamed Thunderbolt; Irene, a fiercely proud ten-year-old mountain girl left homeless by the hard times; and many others. The memoir is a saga of determined working-class people making do and getting by, but equally of their love of family and land.