Download or read book This Happened in the Hills of Kentucky written by John Vogel and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Happened in the Hills of Kentucky written by John Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hill Women written by Cassie Chambers and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 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.
Download or read book From the Hills of Kentucky written by Mary Laslie Tibiletti and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Days of Darkness written by John Pearce and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1994-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Among the darkest corners of Kentucky’s past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky’s best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds—those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces—social, political, financial—hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.
Download or read book Life in the Hills of Kentucky written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life in the Hills of Kentucky written by Barton William Eleazar 1861-1930 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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
Download or read book Life in the Hills of Kentucky written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Hills of Kentucky written by Martha Sue Breeding and published by Any Writers. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Hills of Kentucky reflects three generations of mountain living in eastern Kentucky. Three sections "The Music of the Mountains" - "Whiskey and Women" - "Moonshine and Rock Candy" give readers an inside look to the rich culture and traditions that pass from one generation to the next.
Download or read book Remembering My Life in the Hills of Kentucky written by Bertha Lee and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bert is a young girl growing up in the hills of Kentucky in the 1930s. With a coalminer father and a midwife mother life was never boring or easy, but with the love of her family anything is possible. When the family falls victim to injuries, illness, and a family death that all falls apart. She goes from having a poor happy family to a well off miserable family almost overnight. She starts to feel more like a slave than a daughter, never really fitting in to her new life. All she wants is a place to belong, but does she have to run away from home to fine it?
Download or read book LIFE IN THE HILLS OF KENTUCKY written by William Eleazar 1861-1930 Barton and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Murder in the Hills of Kentucky written by Ursula E. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Heap of Hills written by Billy Curtis Clark and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the most serious students of Clark's career know that before he enjoyed national success, a collection of four stories, A Heap of Hills, was published while he was a college student. This modest and obscure little book was issued in 1953 by the University of Kentucky s Phi Beta Kappa society as an Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Writing. From that copy, the Jesse Stuart Foundation has produced a facsimile reprint as a token of our respect for Billy C. Clark. Although these stories were later reprinted in other publications, this book is a fond reminder of one of Kentucky s most loved and respected authors and educators. Following six new frontal pages and cover, Clark fans can treasure a reproduction of the original copy of A Heap of Hills with no changes in text or format.
Download or read book From the Hills of Kentucky written by Mary Laslie and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up in the Hills of Kentucky written by Leonard M. Grizzle and published by Carlton Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of anecdotes about the adventures of Leonard Grizzle and his Kentucky friends and neighbors.
Download or read book Goose Creek Folks A Story of the Kentucky Mountains 1912 written by Isabel Graham Bush and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
