Running Down Red Dog Road

Author : Drema Hall Berkheimer
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310344988

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Running on Red Dog Road by Drema Hall Berkheimer Pdf

“Mining companies piled trash coal in a slag heap and set it ablaze. The coal burned up, but the slate didn’t. The heat turned it rose and orange and lavender. The dirt road I lived on was paved with that sharp-edged rock. We called it Red Dog. My grandmother always told me, ‘Don’t you go running on that Red Dog road.’ But oh, I did.” Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema’s childhood in 1940s Appalachia after Drema’s father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that reads like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema’s coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, jitterbug lessons, and traveling carnivals, and though it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family of saints and sinners whose lives defy the stereotypes. Just as she defies her own. Running On Red Dog Road is proof that truth is stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to life and faith in an Appalachian childhood.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30T23:00:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798822563155

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Summary of Drema Hall Berkheimer's Running on Red Dog Road by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Rindy, my first grandchild, was born with hyaline-membrane disease, but she fought hard and eventually recovered. She was given her great-great-grandma’s name, Clerrinda.

Author : Rita Wendell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Children of coal miners
ISBN : 1490324895

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Running Down Red Dog Road by Rita Wendell Pdf

Follow the author as she takes you on a personal journey disclosing a hard-scrabble life in the coal camps nestled in the beautiful mountains of West Virginia.

Author : Cassie Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984818935

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Hill Women by Cassie Chambers Pdf

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) “Poverty is enmeshed with pride in these stories of survival.”—Associated Press Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up in these hollers and, through the women who raised her, she traces her own 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. Despite her poverty, she wouldn’t hesitate to give the last bite of pie or vegetables from her garden to a struggling neighbor. Her two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while spirited Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school, then moved an hour away for college. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish school. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated her from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County, both while Wilma was in college and after. With her “hill women” values guiding her, Cassie went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge and opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues that are all too common: domestic violence, the opioid crisis, a world that seems more divided by the day. But they are also community leaders, keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers uses these women’s stories paired with her own journey to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.

Author : Moses Cramden
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681397580

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Two Thousand Eighty-Four by Moses Cramden Pdf

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Author : Georgia Ball
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338675160

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Clifford the Big Red Dog: The Movie Graphic Novel by Georgia Ball Pdf

The Big Red Dog is hitting the big screen! It's a race through NYC in this graphic novel based on the new live-action Clifford movie. Emily Elizabeth is struggling to fit in at home and in school when she meets Clifford, a tiny red puppy who is destined to become her best friend. But when Clifford undergoes a magical growth spurt overnight, he attracts the attention of a genetics company looking for a way to supersize animals. With the help of her Uncle Casey, the people in her neighborhood, and some new friends made along the way, Emily Elizabeth and Clifford have to go on the run across New York City! This graphic novel adaptation features original illustrations and exclusive new scenes and stories not seen in the movie.

Author : Robin Yocum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611458497

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The Essay by Robin Yocum Pdf

Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio. It is the poorest road, in the poorest county, in the poorest region of the state. To make things worse, the name Hickam is synonymous with trouble. Jimmy Lee hails from a heathen mix of thieves, moonshiners, drunkards, and general anti-socials that for decades have clung to both the hardscrabble hills and the iron bars of every jail cell in the region. This life, Jimmy Lee believes, is his destiny, someday working with his drunkard father at the sawmill, or sitting next to his arsonist brother in the penitentiary. There aren’t many options if your last name is Hickam. An inspiring coach and Jimmy Lee's ability to play football are the only things motivating him to return for his junior year of high school—until his visionary English teacher cuts him a break and preserves his eligibility for the coming football season. To thank her, Jimmy Lee writes a winning essay in the high school writing contest. When irate parents and the baffled administration claim he has cheated, his teacher is inspired to take his writing talent as far as it can go, showing him the path out of the hills of Appalachia. Terrific characterizations, surprising revelations, gut-wrenching past betrayals, and an unforgettable cast of characters born of the dusty, worn-out landscape of southeastern Ohio make The Essay a powerful, evocative, and incredibly moving novel.

Author : Patrick Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : IND:30000110617937

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Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane Pdf

An epic novel of unrequited dreams and forestalled lives, Red Dog, Red Dog unfolds over the course of one week in and around a small town in British Columbia in 1958, with stories arcing back in time to the 1920s and '30s. The novel centres on the Stark family. There is Elmer, a violent man with a troubled past; Lillian, who married Elmer shortly after the Depression, and who finds herself retreating steadily into isolation; their sons, Tom and Eddy, now in their twenties, are bound together by the secrets of their childhood years. Unrepentant, Eddy speeds freely along his reckless path, defiant and vulnerable. Tom, a loner, tries to make out of the fragments of the past a story that can explain the way things are. Then one night at a party, Eddy goes too far, and a spiral of events is set in motion, leading to the novel's last, dramatic moments. Narrated in part by one of the dead infant daughters Elmer has buried, the novel is about hardship and loss, revenge and ancient loyalties, about the sweetness of first love and the power of memory. A richly textured portrait of a time and a place, filled with moments of harrowing violence and breathtaking descriptions of the natural world, Red Dog, Red Dog is a deeply moving novel that explores the legacies of the past and the possibilities of salvation.

Author : Lillian (Sissy Crone) Frazer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504970792

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A Walk Through Minden by Lillian (Sissy Crone) Frazer Pdf

The writer follows the journey of her immigrant ancestors from their earliest beginnings in our great nation to their travels to the small coal mining camp of Minden nestled in the mountains of West Virginia. The story continues with the struggles of a coal mining family, the close-knit relationships with family and neighbors, and growing up as a coal camp kid. Life is difficult and poor in money but rich in what truly is important to the family---the love and heart-warming treasures that remain in their hearts.

Author : Rand Gee,Gene Czambel
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : 9781387294077

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The Forgotten Mines and Coal Towns of Thoms Run by Rand Gee,Gene Czambel Pdf

This book documents the history of the coal mines and coal towns of Thoms Run hollow. Read about the development of coal towns Beechmont, Hickman, Federal, Burdine, and Presto, PA. Get a sense of where the mines and towns were located, and about life in the coal patches. Understand the tough life that miners had in rural Pennsylvania. Learn the rich history of how one little road supported so much coal production and the development of Collier Township, PA

Author : Lee Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101516485

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Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith Pdf

"A tour de force." LOS ANGELES TIMES Ivy Rowe may not have much education, but her thoughts are classic, and her experiences are fascinating. Born near the turn of the century in the Virginia Mountains, Ivy's story is told completely through letters she is forever writing, and that you will forever want to read.... "Few readers will be dry-eyed as they watch this extraordinary woman disappear around that last bend in the road." CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466806290

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The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey Pdf

The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tuscon at age sixty two. When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, the irascible warhorse (a stand-in for the "real" Abbey) begins a bizarre cross-country odyssey--determined to make peace with his past--and to wage one last war against the ravages of "progress." "A profane, wildly funny, brash, overbearing, exquisite tour de force." -- The Chicago Tribune

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556039354014

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Red Dog Mine Project, Northwest Alaska by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ann Pearlman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439159491

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A Gift for My Sister by Ann Pearlman Pdf

From the author of "The Christmas Cookie Club," a touching, fast-paced page turner about two sisters struggling to understand the meaning of family.

Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795317453

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The Best of Edward Abbey by Edward Abbey Pdf

A mix of fiction and essays by the author described as “the Thoreau of the American West” (Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post). Edward Abbey himself compiled this volume representing some of his greatest work—including selections from such novels as The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and Black Sun, as well as a number of expressive and acerbic essays. Renowned for inspiring modern environmentalists—though his interests ranged as widely as the landscapes he loved—Abbey offers an entertaining introduction to his writing, including excerpts from the autobiographical Desert Solitaire, in addition to his own sketches illustrating the text throughout.