Download or read book Children of the Kentucky Coal Fields written by Mabel Brown Ellis and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields written by Richard J. Callahan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring themes of work and labor in everyday life, Richard J. Callahan, Jr., offers a history of how coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky's coal fields during the early 20th century. Callahan follows coal miners and their families from subsistence farming to industrial coal mining as they draw upon religious idioms to negotiate changing patterns of life and work. He traces innovation and continuity in religious expression that emerged from the specific experiences of coal mining, including the spaces and social structures of coal towns, the working bodies of miners, the anxieties of their families, and the struggle toward organized labor. Building on oral histories, folklore, folksongs, and vernacular forms of spirituality, this rich and engaging narrative recovers a social history of ordinary working people through religion.
Download or read book Let s Go Down written by Lisa Winter and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A muddy river bank in the heart of coal country sets the stage for an unforgettable event that transcends decades. One glorious Kentucky day, in the summer of 1942, a baptizing evokes a memory that captures the everlasting love of home, of family, and of God Almighty. Follow a little girl into the hills of the coal mining era, and experience one of the greatest cultures of all time. Lisa Winter is an author of Christian children's stories with an affinity for historical fiction. She has received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a Master of Arts degree in Language Arts from Western Kentucky University and is a teacher in the public school system. Growing up, she was heavily influenced by stories of the coal mining culture, which were told to her by her family. She resides in the heart of the Western Kentucky Coal Fields and continues to embrace the rich culture of the coal mining industry. Jessica Whitehouse is a freelance artist and illustrator. She currently attends Western Kentucky University where she is studying visual art with an emphasis in art education. She has grown up around coal mining, with her father, grandfather and other family members being involved in the industry. She lives in Kentucky with her family.
Download or read book Sorry You Missed It written by David Foster Fraley and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book began as a letter to my four children as an attempt to convey to them the values and beauty of their heritage. The central themes include family, community relationships, and the richness of an impoverished life as our ancestors struggled with the challenges of living in the coal fields of Appalachia.
Download or read book The American Child written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields written by David Corbin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal mining culture. This second edition contains a new preface and afterword by author David A. Corbin.
Download or read book Harlan Miners Speak written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, remains today a vivid record of the plight of coal miners in eastern Kentucky. Led by prominent left-leaning writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931 to examine the situation of the miners and their families.
Download or read book Kentucky written by James C. Klotter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of Kentucky during the first half of the twentieth century, presenting a sweeping view of these crucial years when the forces of continuity and change competed for primacy in the state.
Download or read book Harlan Miners Speak written by Theodore Dreiser and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Child written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Sweet by and By written by Joyce Osborn Wilson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sweet By and By is a story about Emily, a mountain woman from the most poverty stricken area of Bloody Harlan County, KY in the Appalachian Mountains. Harlan is coal country, often called Black Diamonds. The coal industry also brought many hardships to those having to work in the mines. Many died from Black Lung due to not having protection from the coal dust. Emily was from a family of sixteen children and it is a poignant story of three generations of three pioneer women and how they survived the hardships of Harlan during the prohibition days. Emily was my mother and this story is about her, and how she crawled out the back window to elope with her true love. Her father served as Magistrate of Harlan County for twenty-nine years. Her mother was part Indian and had beautiful olive skin with shiny long black hair. Emily was only 2 1/2 lbs when she was born, but she grew into a very strong, 4' 11" and stood up to the toughest. Her life was filled with much love, and also much sorrow. None of her siblings died a natural death, and they were all buried among the trees high in the mountains in Kitts Cemetery in Harlan County. Her favorite brother, Woodrow, was killed by a black man that he had befriended many times. Her first sister, Sudie, was burned to death at the age of three when she caught her outing gown on fire from the fireplace. Her heart was broken when her youngest daughter, Carol, was murdered at the hands of a foster child. Mother's doctor said she just put things in the back of her mind, stopped doing things and went into a form of dementia caused from great stress but which kept her from going insane. In the Sweet By and By was always sung at every funeral and there were many in the Howard family. This tender story is from the heart of my dear sweet mother's own words she had recorded in an old spiral notebook. She birthed three girls, Shirley, Joyce and Carol. Emily's husband was a coal miner and died at the age of 56 from Black Lung and mother remarried. She was married to of these men for twenty-eight years each and they both treated her like a China doll. From this old notebook I tell her tender, loving story. www.booksbyjoyceosbornwilson.com
Download or read book Series 6 written by Kentucky Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Child Relief Work in the Bituminous Coal Fields written by American Friends Service Committee and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up in Coal Country written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Download or read book The Geography of the Western Kentucky Coal Field written by Willard Rouse Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coal Industry in Kentucky written by Willard Rouse Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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