Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395979143
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Growing Up in Coal Country
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395979143
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395979143
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Growing Up in Coal Country
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395778470
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395778470
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Growing Up in Coal Country
Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606173704
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606173704
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region
Author: John Stuart Richards
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738509785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Above ground, breaker boys toiled in unbearable conditions inside the noisy, vibrating, soot-filled monsters known as coal breakers.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738509785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Four distinct anthracite coal fields encompass an area of 1,700 square miles in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, underground coal mining was at its zenith and the work of miners was more grueling and dangerous than it is today. Faces blackened by coal and helmet lamps lit by fire are no longer parts of the everyday lives of miners in the region. Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region is a journey into a world that was once very familiar. These vintage photographs of collieries, breakers, miners, drivers, and breaker boys illuminate the dark of the anthracite mines. The pictures of miners, roof falls, mules, and equipment deep underground tell the story of the hard lives lived around the hard coal. Above ground, breaker boys toiled in unbearable conditions inside the noisy, vibrating, soot-filled monsters known as coal breakers.
Coal Country
Author: Shirley Stewart Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
An illustrated chronicle of the growing protest movement against mountaintop removal mining (MTR) of coal in Appalachia, including essays, commentary, and oral histories.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
An illustrated chronicle of the growing protest movement against mountaintop removal mining (MTR) of coal in Appalachia, including essays, commentary, and oral histories.
In Coal Country
Author: Judith Hendershot
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.
In Coal Country
Author: Judith Hendershot
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606015622
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606015622
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A child growing up in a coal mining community finds both excitement and hard work, in a life deeply affected by the local industry.
Heat and Light
Author: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062199080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062199080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.
Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
Author: Green C. Jones
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813115213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813115213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
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.
Anthracite Roots
Author: Joseph W. Leonard
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 9781596290501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"By sharing the experiences, triumphs and tragedies of my own family, in this book I provide a personal look at what life was like in the early coal-mining industry and how that industry has evolved and improved to become one of America's most important industries."--Page 12.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 9781596290501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"By sharing the experiences, triumphs and tragedies of my own family, in this book I provide a personal look at what life was like in the early coal-mining industry and how that industry has evolved and improved to become one of America's most important industries."--Page 12.