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Author : Linda Summers Layfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
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:
Author : D. Dauphinee
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608936910
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
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.
Author : Audrine Wilson Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681113999
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Woes of Appalachian Women written by Audrine Wilson Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cassie Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1984818937
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
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.
Author : Kimberly S. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998753102
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (531 download)
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.
Author : Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095219
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed written by Shannon Elizabeth Bell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivated by a deeply rooted sense of place and community, Appalachian women have long fought against the damaging effects of industrialization. In this collection of interviews, sociologist Shannon Elizabeth Bell presents the voices of twelve Central Appalachian women, environmental justice activists fighting against mountaintop removal mining and its devastating effects on public health, regional ecology, and community well-being. Each woman narrates her own personal story of injustice and tells how that experience led her to activism. The interviews--many of them illustrated by the women's "photostories"--describe obstacles, losses, and tragedies. But they also tell of new communities and personal transformations catalyzed through activism. Bell supplements each narrative with careful notes that aid the reader while amplifying the power and flow of the activists' stories. Bell's analysis outlines the relationship between Appalachian women's activism and the gendered responsibilities they feel within their families and communities. Ultimately, Bell argues that these women draw upon a broader "protector identity" that both encompasses and extends the identity of motherhood that has often been associated with grassroots women's activism. As protectors, the women challenge dominant Appalachian gender expectations and guard not only their families but also their homeplaces, their communities, their heritage, and the endangered mountains that surround them. 30% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to organizations fighting for environmental justice in Central Appalachia.
Author : Rozetta Mowery
Publisher : Global Authors Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780982122341
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (223 download)
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.
Author : Danny Fulks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931672153
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (721 download)
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:
Author : Kim Michele Richardson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492671533
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek written by Kim Michele Richardson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. The perfect addition to your next book club! The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. Look for The Book Woman's Daughter, the new novel from Kim Michele Richardson, out now! Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Sourcebooks Landmark: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Author : Kelly Sue DeConnick
Publisher : DC Black Label
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (2021-) #1 written by Kelly Sue DeConnick and published by DC Black Label. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wait is over, and the entire story of the Amazons can finally be told! Millennia ago, Queen Hera and the goddesses of the Olympian pantheon grew greatly dissatisfied with their male counterparts…and far from their sight, they put a plan into action. A new society was born, one never before seen on Earth, capable of wondrous and terrible things…but their existence could not stay secret for long. When a despairing woman named Hippolyta crossed the Amazons’ path, a series of events was set in motion that would lead to an outright war in heaven-and the creation of the Earth’s greatest guardian! Legendary talents Kelly Sue DeConnick and Phil Jimenez unleash a reading experience the likes of which you’ve never seen, with unbelievably sumptuous art and a story that will haunt you-with subsequent issues featuring art by modern masters Gene Ha and Nicola Scott! One of the most unforgettable DC tales of all time begins here!
Author : Billie Jean Craft
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1770676449
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)
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.
Author : Jeffrey H Ryan
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608935795
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Appalachian Odyssey written by Jeffrey H Ryan and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many hikers who’ve completed the Appalachian Trail, Jeffrey Ryan didn’t do it in one long through-hike. Grabbing weekends here and days off there, it took Jeffrey twenty-eight years to finish the trail, and along the way he learned much about himself and made many new friends, including his best friend, who made the journey with him from start to finish. Including 75 color photos, this engaging book is part memoir, part natural history and lore, and part practical advice. Whether you’ve hiked the AT, are planning to hike it, or only wish to dream of hiking it, this is the book to read next.
Author : Chris Bolgiano
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811701266
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
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.
Author : Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche Engelhardt
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821415778
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Beyond Hill and Hollow written by Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche Engelhardt and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "The first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia's women, Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women's Studies is a pathbreaking collection that firmly establishes the field of Appalachian women's studies. Bringing together the work of historians, linguists, sociologists, social workers, performance artists, literary critics, theater scholars, and others, the collection portrays the diverse cultures of Appalachian women." "Appropriate both as a reference and as a classroom text, Beyond Hill and Hollow expands our understanding of Appalachian women's lives."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Skye Moody
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804173699
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Hillbilly Women written by Skye Moody and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book tells what it means to be a woman when you are poor, when you are proud, and when you are a hillbilly.” First published in 1973, Skye Moody’s Hillbilly Women shares the stunning and raw oral histories of nineteen women in twentieth-century Southern Appalachia, from their day-to-day struggles for survival to the personal triumphs of their hardscrabble existence. They are wives, widows, and daughters of coal miners; factory hands, tobacco graders, cotton mill workers, and farmers; and women who value honest labor, self-esteem, and dignity. Shining a much-needed light into a misunderstood culture and identity, the stories within reflect the universally human struggle to live meaningful and dignified lives. Updated with a new introduction and material from the author.
Author : Ben Montgomery
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613747217
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Grandma Gatewood's Walk written by Ben Montgomery and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The story of Grandma Gatewood will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination. Even those who know of Gatewood don't know the full story—a story of triumph from pain, rebellion from brutality, hope from suffering.
Author : Sidney Saylor Reynolds
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813186153
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Appalachian Women written by Sidney Saylor Reynolds and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachian women have been the subject of song, story, and report for nearly two centuries. Now for the first time a fully annotated bibliography makes accessible this large body of literature. Works covered include novels, short stories, magazine articles, manuscripts, dissertations, surveys, and oral history tapes—altogether over 1,200 items. The annotated listings are grouped under broad subject headings, including biography, coal mining, education, fiction, health care, industry, migrants, music, poetry, and religion. An author/title/subject index provides easy access to the listings.
