Download or read book The Coal Miner s Son A Family Saga written by Patricia M. Osborne and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught up in a web of treachery and deceit, George grows up believing his mother sold him. He's determined to make her pay, but at what cost? Is he strong enough to rebel? Will George ever learn to forgive?
Download or read book Memories of a Coal Miner s Son written by Frank Perry and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of a Coal Miner s Son written by C. Don Byrd and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an America that doesn't exist anymore – one where men made their living in the darkest recesses of the Earth while their wives worked in the home from sunup to sundown and children helped with the chores from the time they could walk. But growing up as a coal miner's son wasn't all work and no play, as C. Don writes in Memories of a Coal Miner's Son, My Grandpa, My Dad, and Me, his poignant yet light-hearted memoir of growing up in the hills of eastern Tennessee in the 1940s and 1950s. Byrd, a retired insurance executive, decided to record his memories so his children and grandchildren could learn more of their family history – while also gaining awareness of the hard-working men and women who shaped the Byrd family. Some of Byrd's stories have been excerpted in Tennessee Ancestors and in the Des Moines Register. You don't have to be Southerner or a miner's descendant to enjoy Memories of a Coal Miner's Son. You just need to remember a time when people put in a good day's work, feared the Lord, and maybe broke away for a little fishin' on a Sunday afternoon.
Download or read book Frank Selvy written by Jack McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coal Miners Wives written by Carol A. B. Giesen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help." Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator. Forced from her homeland on the Tennessee River in the 1930s, she recounts the memory of upheaval and destruction caused by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Western Kentucky area that now boasts beautiful, expansive bodies of water was once home to some 20,000 people, their houses, farms, townships and ancestral history. Residents were subjected to three waves of forced relocation to make way for Kentucky Lake in the 1930s, Lake Barkley in the 1950s, and Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area in the 1960s. Renowned poet T. Crunk intersperses narrative prose and vivid lyric verse to explore the devastation one family experienced in this often overlooked episode in Kentucky history. The voices of a grandmother and grandson speak to each other over time, evoking the relentless advance of irrevocable forces that changed the land, forever.
Download or read book A Coal Miner s Son written by William R. Holland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William S. Holland: father, brother, husband, businessman, builder, factory worker, state employee, schoolboy, soldier, honored veteran of WWII and friend to thousands. This is the story of his life, full of love and loss, from his small upbringing as the son of an Ohio coal miner to the distinguished family man and community leader he is today. Follow his journey through his words in this truly American tale.
Download or read book Coal Miner s Son written by Robert Thompson Robinson Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Thompson Robinson Jr. grew up in a coal mining town. His father mined tungsten and coal, and was working in the Columbine Mine at the time of the massacre in 1927. This book is edited from video interviews Robert Thompson Robinson gave to his son in 1993. The editor did not polish his words, beyond editing out the inevitable repetitions that occur in speech. Here are stories of the broken cherry tree and the cigarette in the chicken house, of the Columbine Mine Massacre and the murder in the street in front of the bar, of the Highlander Boys and the big bands. This book gives a first-hand look at life in a small coal-mining town in the 1920s.
Download or read book Son of a West Virginia Coal Miner written by George Hughes and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1938 at the tail end of the great depression in a small coal mining village in West Virginia, he tells how his parents struggled to provide for the family. His father, was a coal miner for forty years and his mother a house maid for the local doctor. How he and his seven siblings only had one pair of shoes each, during spring and summer they had to put them away so that they would not wear them out for the next school term. So during this time they went around playing in their bare feet. At the age of seven he disliked going to school. There were many school days he did not show up for class, because of his profound fantasy for being in the woods alone, contented with the sounds of mother nature, he would sit and dream. At fourteen, in 1953, the family with their meager possessions, moved north to a city in Ohio and within five years was the beginning trends of him becoming an alcoholic.
Download or read book A Coal Miner s Bride written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
Download or read book Son of a Coal Miner s Daughter written by William Spencer Miller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Bill Spencer Miller takes us on his journey of expansion and personal growth through his varied experiences as a farm boy in Brown County, Indiana to a Foreign Service Reserve Officer with the Peace Corps, a volunteer in Indonesia and Thailand, a Peace Corps director in the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Philippines. He went from attending a one-room school in Beanblossom, Indiana to Franklin College, to Eastern Illinois University where earned degrees in Biology, Kinesiology, and Sports, giving him a solid foundation to make his dreams come true. We learn about living in cultures different from our own as he shares his interactions living with and teaching the people of Indonesia and Thailand. Bill, always active, shares stories of playing basketball at the height of Hoosier Mania. His life-long love of running culminated in his participating in several triathlons, until a serious illness took him down, but not out of a productive life. He tells us of returning to the United States after ten years abroad and building a new life in Brown County with his wife and young family. We will learn about his new career paths and his work on the Deam Wilderness Project and his fight for landowners private property rights. Bill Millers experiences give voice to a life that has spanned (so far) a world that was still recovering from the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the assassinations of prominent leaders in our country, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, to our present day struggles around the globe.
Download or read book A Coal Miner s Son written by Garry Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Life Story written by Bobby Whatley and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born in 1935 in a coal mining camp in Bibb County, Alabama, called Piper-Coleanor, back when the company doctor (W. E. Stinson) would come to your house and deliver your child for $15. That was during the Depression, and then came World War II. Most everyone was in poverty with no government programs. Later on, the government would give us limited rice, cheese, and beans to have something to eat. The hard times as youngsters gave us more ambition to come out of poverty as we got older. I am eighty-five years old and working five to six days a week. I have been a security guard at Mercedes Benz for eleven years and ten months, and I have only missed two days. We have eighty guards, and they say I am the most dependable guard they have.
Download or read book Coal Miner s Son written by Tom Cable and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was passed down from father to son to teach the lesson that all people are equal. No rich, no poor, no black, no white, no young, no old. Always be your own man, and reach out a "hand of love" to others.
Download or read book A Coal Miner s Son written by William R. Holland and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William S. Holland: father, brother, husband, businessman, builder, factory worker, state employee, schoolboy, soldier, honored veteran of WWII and friend to thousands. This is the story of his life, full of love and loss, from his small upbringing as the son of an Ohio coal miner to the distinguished family man and community leader he is today. Follow his journey through his words in this truly American tale.
Download or read book THE COAL MINER S SON written by Henry Kowalewski and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this short story or booklet, so my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren would have some knowledge of their heritage. Also, I felt that I had a great life growing up. My mom and dad were very good to us. They took good care of us 4 kids.. we always had food on table and clean clothes to wear. That is why I am dedicating this book to them.I have had a great life. I married the love of my life and we have 3 wonderful children. They are very special and very hard workers . We have been married for 60 great years. I have been blessed with such a great life and would not change it. I love my wife with all my heart and my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. I hope you have enjoyed reading my book.
Download or read book The Coalwood Way written by Homer Hickam and published by Island Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered HomerSr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness. Eager to rally the town's spirits and make her son's final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it most needs to come together. And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny realizes that helping his town and redeeming himself in his mother's eyes may be a bigger-and more rewarding-challenge than he has ever faced. The result is pure storytelling magic- a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable adventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world Rocket Boys
Download or read book Coal Heartache written by Lois Barnes Binkley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COAL MINER'S SON RELIVES HIS LIFE AFTER SEVENTY FIVE YEARS OF SILENCE A Kentucky man with the story of a lifetime. A past that will bring you to tears. The struggles and hardships he faced and hid from his family for so long, to avoid the criticism and shame, are now brought to the public. His journey from the loss of his father at the age of two in a coal mine, to being left with abusive grandparents and a mother on the run, then ending with years of experience. Constantly finding his own way. After all these years of turmoil and regret, he finally settles down and finds someone who brings light from the darkness of his past. She helps him build up the courage to come out of the silence of seventy five years and share with his family and the world; the true story of Toby Wayne King Jr.
