Download or read book They Say in Harlan County written by Alessandro Portelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.
Download or read book Gender and Rurality written by Sarah Whatmore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this book brings together papers developing feminist analyses of the rural condition from a wide range of industrialised countries, informed by the national and local cultural constructions of gender and rurality which they interpret. The chapters address the gendered power relations of rural households and agricultural science; women’s mobilisation in farming and environmental politics; the intersection of domestic and rural values and practices as they shape gender identities.
Download or read book Pratt Families of Virginia written by William Neal Hurley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Pratt, Sr. was born before 1765, probably in Virginia. He and his wife appear to be the parents of nine children, born in Virginia. The family were living in Washington County, Virginia, in 1810, and he was living in Greene County, Tennessee, by 1819. Descendants listed, chiefly descendants of his son, Oliver Pratt (ca. 1784-1832), lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and elsewhere.
Download or read book Flood Insurance Study written by United States. Federal Insurance Administration and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplementary Report on the Coals of Clover Fork and Poor Fork in Harlan County written by James Michael Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up Hard in Harlan County written by Green C. Jones and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
Download or read book Poems Out of Harlan County written by Vivian Shipley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Blessed Life written by Ernest Hensley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Hensley grew up in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky as one of fourteen children. The hope of a better job lured him beyond his beloved mountains. Life took him and his family on an unexpected journey and life in Chicago suburbs. After retirement, Ernest returned with his wife to their childhood community where they still pastor a church. The lessons he learned in his youth have sustained him through his adult life and the values that were most dear still remain in faith, family, and friends. In this book, Ernest recounts adventures of his childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky. Included are stories about his brothers and sisters and a photographic collection of family members. Readers with Hensley roots in Harlan County, Kentucky may find more than a collection of stories as they scan the pages and photographs.
Download or read book Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee written by Haywood John and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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