The Appalachian Woman

Author : Cassie Chambers
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Florence Cope Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 087049726X

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Dorie by Florence Cope Bush Pdf

Dorie's story begins with her childhood on an isolated mountain farm, where we see first-hand how her parents combined back-breaking labor with intense personal pride to produce everything their family needed--from food and clothing to tools and toys--from the land. Lumber companies began to invade the mountains, and Dorie's family took advantage of the financial opportunities offered by the lumber industry, not realizing that in giving up their lands they were also letting go of a way of life. Along with their machinery, the lumber companies brought in many young men, one of whom, Fred Cope, became Dorie's husband. After the lumber companies stripped the mountains of their timber, outsiders set the area aside as a national park, requiring Dorie, now married with a family of her own, to move outside of her beloved mountains.

Author : Linda Goodman,Raymond Burgin
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570720983

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Daughters of the Appalachians by Linda Goodman,Raymond Burgin Pdf

The author introduces six unique women, each of whom offers a rare glimpse of a culture that is fast fading away. As you share their joys and sorrows, these women will touch your soul and live in your heart.

Author : Adrienne Hall
Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000046421944

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A Journey North by Adrienne Hall Pdf

Hiking 2,159 miles from Georgia to Maine was not my idea...I was not a lost youth searching for an identity. I was not retired and looking for a new way to spend my time. I was not sorting through death or divorce. I was not recently fired from a job. The truth is, my boyfriend asked me on a date. So begins the story of one young woman's journey along the legendary Appalachian Trail. What starts as a date turns into the experience of a lifetime as Adrienne Hall faces blinding snowstorms, flooded rivers, and seemingly endless mountaintops. Yet despite the physical and mental hardships, she finds her commitment to her hiking companion and the AT experience growing with every mile. When she emerges from her trip - a million footsteps, countless candy bars, and one engagement proposal later - Adrienne has lived an adventure that few will ever know. Written with warmth, insight, and a keen sense of observation, A Journey North is a personal story about discovering what it means to hike the amazing corridor of wilderness that is the Appalachian Trail. (6 x 9 1/4, 224 pages, case bound)

Author : Kim Michele Richardson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443458665

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Pdf

In 1936, Bluet is the last of the Kentucky Blues. In the dusty Appalachian hills of Troublesome Creek, nineteen and blue-skinned, Bluet has used up her last chance for “respectability” and a marriage bed. Instead, she joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding up treacherous mountains on a mule to deliver books and other reading material to the poor hill communities of Eastern Kentucky. Along her dangerous route, Bluet confronts many who are distrustful of her blue skin. Not everyone is so keen on Bluet’s family or the Library Project, and the impoverished Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. Inspired by the true and historical blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek provides an authentic Appalachian voice to a story of hope, heartbreak and raw courage and shows one woman’s strength, despite it all, to push beyond the dark woods of Troublesome Creek.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980*
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:9209807

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The Appalachian Woman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sidney Saylor Farr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004034925

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Appalachian Women by Sidney Saylor Farr Pdf

Author : Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780252095214

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Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed by Shannon Elizabeth Bell Pdf

Motivated by a deeply rooted sense of place and community, Appalachian women have long fought against the damaging effects of industrialization. In this collection of interviews, sociologist Shannon Elizabeth Bell presents the voices of twelve Central Appalachian women, environmental justice activists fighting against mountaintop removal mining and its devastating effects on public health, regional ecology, and community well-being. Each woman narrates her own personal story of injustice and tells how that experience led her to activism. The interviews--many of them illustrated by the women's "photostories"--describe obstacles, losses, and tragedies. But they also tell of new communities and personal transformations catalyzed through activism. Bell supplements each narrative with careful notes that aid the reader while amplifying the power and flow of the activists' stories. Bell's analysis outlines the relationship between Appalachian women's activism and the gendered responsibilities they feel within their families and communities. Ultimately, Bell argues that these women draw upon a broader "protector identity" that both encompasses and extends the identity of motherhood that has often been associated with grassroots women's activism. As protectors, the women challenge dominant Appalachian gender expectations and guard not only their families but also their homeplaces, their communities, their heritage, and the endangered mountains that surround them. 30% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to organizations fighting for environmental justice in Central Appalachia.

Author : Ben Montgomery
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613747216

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery Pdf

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes, and a run-in with gangsters from Harlem, she stood atop Maine's Mount Katahdin. There she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it." Grandma Gatewood, as the reporters called her, became the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone, as well as the first person—man or woman—to walk it twice and three times. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity and appeared on TV and in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The public attention she brought to the little-known footpath was unprecedented. Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail from extinction. Author Ben Montgomery was given unprecedented access to Gatewood's own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence, and interviewed surviving family members and those she met along her hike, all to answer the question so many asked: Why did she do it? The story of Grandma Gatewood will inspire readers of all ages by illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination. Even those who know of Gatewood don't know the full story—a story of triumph from pain, rebellion from brutality, hope from suffering.

Author : Sandra L. Ballard,Patricia L. Hudson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813143583

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Listen Here by Sandra L. Ballard,Patricia L. Hudson Pdf

“A comprehensive and unsurpassed anthology of women writers from Appalachia . . . Exceptional in diversity and scope.” —Southern Historian Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lee Smith. Editors Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson offer a diverse sampling of time periods and genres, established authors and emerging voices. From regional favorites to national bestsellers, this unprecedented gathering of Appalachian voices displays the remarkable talent of the region’s women writers who’ve made their mark at home and across the globe. “A giant step forward in Appalachian studies for both students and scholars of the region and the general reader . . . Nothing less than a groundbreaking and landmark addition to the national treasury of American literature.” —Bloomsbury Review “A remarkable accomplishment, bringing together the work of 105 female Appalachian writers saying what they want to, and saying it in impressive bodies of literature.” —Lexington Herald-Leader “One of the keenest pleasures in Listen Here lies in its diversity of voices and genres.” —Material Culture “Besides introducing readers to many new voices, the anthology provides a strong counterpart to the stereotype of hillbillies that have cursed the region.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Full of welcome surprises to those new to this regional literature: specifically, it includes particularly strong selections from children’s fiction and a substantial number of African American writers.” —Choice

Author : D. Dauphinee
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608936915

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When You Find My Body by D. Dauphinee Pdf

Geraldine Largay vanished in July 2013, while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Her disappearance sparked the largest lost-person search in Maine history, which culminated in her being presumed dead. She was never again seen alive.

Author : J. D. Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062872258

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Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance Pdf

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

Author : Helen M. Lewis,Monica Apple
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813188584

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Mountain Sisters by Helen M. Lewis,Monica Apple Pdf

Monica Appleby and Helen Lewis reveal the largely untold story of women who stood up to the Church and joined Appalachians in their struggle for social justice. Their poignant story of how faith, compassion, and persistence overcame obstacles to progress in Appalachia is a fascinating example of how a collaborative and creative learning community fosters strong voices. Mountain Sisters is a prophetic first-person account of the history of American Catholicism, the war on poverty, and the influence of the turbulent 1960s on the cultural and religious communities of Appalachia. Founded in 1941, The Glenmary Sisters embraced a calling to serve rural Appalachian communities where few Catholics resided. The sisters, many of them seeking alternatives to the choices available to most women during this time, zealously pursued their duties but soon became frustrated with the rules and restrictions of the Church. Outmoded doctrine—even styles of dress—made it difficult for them to interact with the very people they hoped to help. In 1967, after many unsuccessful attempts to persuade the Church to ease its requirements, some seventy Sisters left the security of convent life. Over forty of these women formed a secular service group, FOCIS (Federation of Communities in Service). Mountain Sisters is their story.

Author : Sidney S. Farr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783795823

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Appalachian Women by Sidney S. Farr Pdf

Author : Luther Kirk
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1973812258

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Appalachian Woman by Luther Kirk Pdf

"The Appalachian woman who is the subject of the poems in Luther Kirk's collection is not just any generic Appalachian. She is the woman he knew best-his mother, a woman who "dropped all twelve of [her] young'uns year after year like seed taters on a Good Friday," a woman who had too much work to do to take time out to send for the midwife, a woman who hauled water and sacks of grain, who planted by the signs and endured. Kirk's adroit use of verbs and his eye for the just-right image bring the beloved Appalachian woman to life for his readers. The book is a can't-put-it-down from the "Unmade Bed" of the opening poem to the final note of "She Left.""~ Connie Jordan Green, author of Household Inventory, winner of the Brick Road Poetry Prize"In an era when hardly anything is fresh, Luther Kirk captures the language of the ancient Appalachians in a refreshing book of poetry. He knows the language that could only come from living among the proud and often misaligned people that call these peaks and valleys home. Luther's poetry flows across the page, rolling off the tongue the way a summer rain rolls off the rocks and trees of his native Southwest Virginia. Strip away all pretense and what you have left is an honesty of expression that is both delightful and unexpected."~ Patricia Hope, award-winning poet"In this rich, dense, sharply etched collection, Appalachian Woman, Luther Kirk becomes a landscape artist, painting in a spectrum of mountain vernacular as expansive and detailed as the mountains themselves and as intimate as the landscapes of larder and washday, garden and bedroom, the birth of babies and the ridges and hollers that brought those babies into being. Sensual, musical, vivid, this is a landscape as complex as the original garden and the caresses and curses it spawned--procreation, labor of all kinds, and survival, all the gifts from and to a widow left with little but what she herself creates, a self-reliant and self-aware woman squeezing every drop from what is within reach. An absolutely beautiful book." ~ Darnell Arnoult, author of Galaxie Wagon: Poems and What Travels with Us: Poems.