They Say In Harlan County

Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199934851
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : G. C. Jones
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813143500
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Hard in Harlan County written by G. C. Jones and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic memoir is “an absorbing tale” of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression (The Washington Post). 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. “An absorbing tale told in the vernacular language of the teamsters, farmers and miners in rural, mountainous Kentucky in the early decades of this century. The narrative flows with the symmetry that comes naturally to the accomplished storyteller.” —TheWashington Post “Draws the reader into a sometimes frightening world of survival.” —Lexington Herald-Leader “He bears witness to Harlan County—first as a community of self-sufficient farmers, then as a mining area and finally in the 1930s as ‘bloody Harlan’ . . . Mr. Jones celebrates horses and mules, the bounty of the hillside farms and woods and the rough ingenuity, honor and sweetness of the mountain people.” —The New York Times “Jones shows all of us that fierce determination, lived day by day, can lead to a satisfying life, even though it might be hard.” —Kentucky Monthly

Author : Mari Adkins
Publisher : Apex Publications
ISBN 13 : 098215965X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harlan County Horrors written by Mari Adkins and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan County Horrors is a regional based horror anthology by Apex Magazine submissions editor Mari Adkins. It will feature stories by Alethea Kontis, Debbie Kuhn, Earl Dean, Geoffrey Girard, Jason Sizemore, Jeremy Shipp, Maurice Broaddus, Robby Sparks, Ronald Kelly, Stephanie Lenz, Steven Shrewsbury, and TL Trevaskis.

Author : William H Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952271212
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harlan Renaissance written by William H Turner and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.

Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438416335
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories written by Alessandro Portelli and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli's work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.

Author : Lee Pennington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981844275
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of Bloody Harlan written by Lee Pennington and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960's, after graduation from Berea, Lee Pennington went to Harlan County to teach poetry to Kentucky Community College students. Under his tutelage, they published four books of poetry, Spirit Hollow, Thirteen, The Long Way Home and Tomorrow's People. It was this last book that got him in trouble, as the students were honest and frank about their locale, religion and relationships, and local authorities took offense. So much so that a price was put on Pennington's head and he had to leave with armed guards to protect him. This, of course, made national news and he was asked to speak all over the United States. It was not the students or the population of Harlan County who hated Pennington, but the establishment, the executives, the law-enforcers and managers who disapproved of his freedom and honesty. As Jean W. Ross writes in the DLB Yearbook, "the students' work was in part critical of strip-mining, traditional religious teaching, and the hypocrisy of authority." She writes of Lee's subsequent book on the subject, Songs of Bloody Harlan, , published first in North American Mentor (Summer 1971), and in book form in 1975, is Pennington's toughly realistic but ultimately loving tribute to the region that had driven him out in 1967. He wrote of the poetry's genesis, "For two years following my experience in Harlan County, I didn't say anything. But a poet doesn't have that choice either. . . . Songs of Bloody Harlan is my comment." (Jean W. Ross, Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1982, p. 335) Pennington's book, Songs of Bloody Harlan was one of his early publications, with a small edition of 100 printed, in 1975. Its popularity grew until it became very valuable, with a high price of $2,500 listed for one available on Amazon in 2018. This edition fulfills many people's desire to own a copy of this rare book, and it deserves reprinting so that all may partake of the experience Pennington lived, with all of it beauty, love and agony.

Author : Thomas G. Barnes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813129228
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky's Last Great Places written by Thomas G. Barnes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul F. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990535195
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Harlan written by Paul F. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conditions in Coal Fields in Harlan and Bell Counties, Kentucky written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Boyd
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813134099
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Crawfish Bottom written by Douglas Boyd and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw’s” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd’s Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw four-hundred families displaced. Using oral histories and firsthand memories, Boyd not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort police officer describes Craw’s residents as a “rough class of people, who didn’t mind killing or being killed.” In Crawfish Bottom, the former residents of Craw acknowledge the popular misconceptions about their community but offer a richer and more balanced view of the past.