Download or read book Coal Camp Teens written by Margie J Pittman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join this, often humorous, walk down memory lane. Find out: Why an apple rolled down the Isle of the Putney church, If Ed got the point, Where Gobblers Knob is, Who cooked Steves duck, Where did Jody get that prize beagle, What was Jerrys surprise, Why Emmas play was canceled, How David got into such a tight situation, Why did Jesse James get kicked out of school, Who in the world is Pampers, Why did Raymond un-quit, How come Larrys Lincoln was only a two speed, And who Sparky is. We survived, with some wonderful memories. This teenage stuff isnt always easy, but it can be great fun. Teenagers are a strange mixture of hormones, guts and uncertainty. Add in a healthy dose of orneriness, a lot of rock-and-roll, a dance step or two, a few likeminded friends and youll get trouble enough. If however, you throw in, a little coal dust, a swimming hole, a taste of Roys moonshine, a bunch of school skipping, some military service, red blue jeans, Judys bottle of Listerine, and a thick layer of snow and ice, then you have real West Virginia Coal Camp trouble. To say that we grew up poor is an understatement, but dont forget, we grew up in a great country that afforded us luxuries and opportunities that make us seem very wealthy in the eyes of most of the world. For that I am very grateful. Coal Camp Teens werent so different from other teens, or were they? The rich culture of the mines and the hills, blended together to fashion people who were especially strong. No one ever said that teenage years were easy. Sure there were fun times and memories that will be cherished for the rest of our lives. There were also lessons to be learned. Learning lessons is especially hard when you think you already know it all. There is nothing good about a paddling, unless you learn something from it. There is not much good that can be said about war, except when it is necessary to preserves our freedom. In much the same way, the trials and temptations that filled our teenage years are nothing to brag about, except that they made us what we are today. Coal Camp Teens explores the strange world of the teenager. In particular, the teenager growing up in the coal camps of Campbells Creek, West Virginia.
Download or read book Coal Camp Kids written by Margie J Pittman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come explore another time and place. The coal camps may have been rough and impoverished but to the kids that grew up there they were wonderful and exciting. These tales range from playing church and bird funerals,to how chewing tobacco and spitting into the creek became one of Roy's best tattle-tale adventures ever. Learn about the Goings on between the churchgoers and the sinners. Find out if Margie's pet chicken, Gladys ended up in chicken heaven or on the dinner table. Follow the adventures of Bonnie's unexpected ride on the back of a hog. Find out what the trickle of water coming out from under the Christmas tree really was. You may be surprised that it really did hurt dad more than the kids when he removed his belt to punish the kids. Learn the real meaning behind David's insistence that 'Pocky mokes". Discover who wins when Raymond tangles with Sally the cat. Experience the itch of Larry's mishap in the woods. Find out why Judy isn't wearing any panties. These tales reveal the good and the bad of what life was really like for the Coal Camp Kids.
Download or read book Coal Camp Kids written by Margie J Pittman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal Miners from the forties and fifties were a special kind of people. The community of the camps they lived in instilled value and culture that is lacking in today's world. The "Coal Camp Kids" and "Teens" aren't kids any more. Most of them have great grandchildren. "Coal Camp Kids, The End of an Era" catches up with the "Kids" today, and tells how they are passing on their values. The process creates some amusing circumstances. As you read, find out: Who got a phone call from Jesus, why were Bonnie and Margie on a four wheeler, who told David Pittman, "That's how they do it on TV," Why was Ruby Bartley so embarrassed, who thought they might need a good talking to, what did Karen shower everyone with, who got a standing ovation, what did Billie pray for, who is afraid of a thunderstorm, who thinks they would get a rush from a tornado, what got Paula tickled on the elevator, why was Joshua splashing in the tub, and who was interested in Margie's twelve string? Explore the joys and heartaches that fill our everyday lives in the West Virginia Mountains. "The End of an Era" completes the trilogy.
Download or read book Coal Camp Days written by Ricardo L. Garcia and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fictionalized memoir based on the author's childhood, a six-year-old boy describes his life in a coal mining town in northern New Mexico during World War II.
Download or read book COAL CAMP written by Allan Cannon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COAL CAMPWhen two young friends are caught up in the turmoil of changes in the coalfields in the middle of the twentieth century, they take extremely different routes to improving means of extracting coal from the earth--one through mechanization and the other through unionization--and become bitter enemies. But after years of conflicts, getting married and raising children, their friendship is rekindled when they are hopelessly trapped in a mine cave-in. This is the story of coal miners--their lives, loves, hopes, dreams and deaths.
Download or read book Coal Camp Girl written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl grows up in the sooty shadow of the coal mines of West Virginia When the whistle blows, Christina knows her father is coming home. Every day he emerges from the pit with his skin caked in coal dust. He’s 50 now and he’s been working in the mines since he was 12 years old. It’s dangerous, backbreaking labor, but he does it because he loves his family. As far as Christina is concerned, there is no job in the world more honorable than digging coal. Danger is always close at hand in the mines. There are cave-ins, explosions, and diseases. But no matter what happens, Christina and her family always stick together. This meticulously researched look at life in a coal camp shows that no matter how dark the pit, love will always shine through.
Download or read book Wildflowers and Train Whistles written by Lillian Frazer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sissy Crone, a coal camp kid, brings to life the faded past of her hometown, Minden, West Virginia, through a collection of stories told firsthand of heartache and loss, balanced by glorious triumphs. Sissy brings us along as a companion through her early years in a childhood that could never exist in a modern world. Wildflowers and Train Whistles is a book about an ordinary family that survives extraordinary challenges as a coal camp family living in hardscrabble times of the 1950s. She and her six siblings color a dark, damp coal camp town with humorous antics and daring adventures to bring excitement to the hills near the New River Gorge.
Download or read book Coal Camp Kids written by Barbara Ford Ritch and published by Father & Son Pub. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elizabeth s Coal Camp Stories written by Carrie D. Franklin Heck and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes on a setting of a coal camp; somewhere in West Virginia during the great depression days. Some of the book is fictitious. Most of the characters were names I had remembered as a child; whether they be real in character or of a fictitious nature, I used them out of due love for the families of yesteryears. Judge Henry S. Cato is a real character in this novel. I had cared for him as his private duty nurse for a period of five years. I feel like I got to know him as a nurse and as a special person. His life touched mine in a many ways, as well as the lives of others.
Download or read book Going Back written by Clyde Roy Pack and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Coal Camp written by Thomas J. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Coal Camp Doctor and Other Stories written by J. Eldon Dorman and published by Peczuh Print. Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare look into the past by a man who lived it. Follow Doctor Dorman as he makes house call, hospital visits, does emergency surgery, goes underground and delivers babies in the coal camps of Carbon County.
Download or read book The Adventures of Jake A Coal Camp Boy written by Victor M. Depta and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Camp Boys written by Raymond Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life in a Coal Camp written by Nellie Vanover and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sugarite Coal Camp written by Patricia Veltri and Patricia H. Walsh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucked into a remote canyon in northeastern New Mexico, Sugarite Coal Camp created a true melting pot for mostly immigrant miners slinging picks and shovels. The coal they labored to produce heated homes across several states for decades. In a bountiful place long used by native peoples and then by cattle ranchers, coal mining debuted in Sugarite (Sugar-eet') Canyon in the early 1900s. The St. Louis, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific Company quickly ramped up full-scale mining operations, building an orderly town of sturdy block houses perched upon canyon slopes. A store, school, post office, and clubhouse served camp residents, many hailing from Eastern Europe, Italy, Greece, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Mexico, and even Japan. With the rumble of coal cars as background music, poor mining families lived a rich life making wine, dancing, and playing sports. Today, visitors to Sugarite Canyon State Park tour ghostly remains of the camp, one of the few accessible to the public.
