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Appalachian Mountain Girl
Rhoda Bailey Warren
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Description for Appalachian Mountain Girl
Paperback. A story of the Bailey family's escape from the gruelling Corbin Glow mines in 1930 to find a better life in Letcher, Kentucky. This account recounts the lives of the mining people whose religion and 'family values' buttressed and sustained them. It is three dimensional account containing humour, but lacking sentimentality. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JJG; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
This is the story of the Bailey family's escape from the gruelling Corbin Glow mines in 1930 to find a better life in Letcher, Kentucky - 'the prettiest place in the world'. Rhoda Warren's account is three dimensional: with humour and warmth - but without sentimentality. She recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and 'family values' buttressed and sustained them. Among others, we meet Kin, who saddened his neighbours with songs of the old 'Southland'; Lie Shingles, a man without a home of his own who travelled from neighbour to neighbour as an honoured guest at mealtime; ... Read more
This is the story of the Bailey family's escape from the gruelling Corbin Glow mines in 1930 to find a better life in Letcher, Kentucky - 'the prettiest place in the world'. Rhoda Warren's account is three dimensional: with humour and warmth - but without sentimentality. She recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and 'family values' buttressed and sustained them. Among others, we meet Kin, who saddened his neighbours with songs of the old 'Southland'; Lie Shingles, a man without a home of his own who travelled from neighbour to neighbour as an honoured guest at mealtime; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL, United States
ISBN
9780897335362
SKU
V9780897335362
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Ref
99-42
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