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Overview
In the compelling memoir, Rhoda Warren, whose father was a miner, introduces us to Letcher, KY in 1930. She takes us inside this isolated community, whose denizens lived difficult, poverty-stricken lives. This is the story of the Bailey family's escape from the grueling Corbin Glow mines to find a better life in Letcher--"The prettiest place in the world." Rhoda Warren's account is three-dimensional: with humor and warmth, but without sentimentality. She recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and "family values" buttressed and sustained them.
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- ISBN-13: 9780897335362
- ISBN-10: 0897335368
- Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
- Publish Date: October 2005
- Dimensions: 8.08 x 5 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.41 pounds
- Page Count: 175
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