Author: Cecil Hensley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145673041X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
My name is Cecil Hensley. Im 76 years old, and I was born and raised in Perry County, Kentucky. Th is is a true life story I lived and experienced in the depression days of the 1930s. I now reside in Austin, Indiana, with my wife Betty Ann of 52 years. We have 5 children, 24 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild that God has blessed us with. We have a daughter Kimberly Ann that is deceased and one grandson Brian Charles that is deceased. I continue to play lead guitar in church and make furniture on the side. I hope you enjoy this true-life story that I have written. Cecil Hensley
A True Life Story of Cecil Hensley in and Around Hazard, Kentucky
Author: Cecil Hensley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145673041X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
My name is Cecil Hensley. Im 76 years old, and I was born and raised in Perry County, Kentucky. Th is is a true life story I lived and experienced in the depression days of the 1930s. I now reside in Austin, Indiana, with my wife Betty Ann of 52 years. We have 5 children, 24 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild that God has blessed us with. We have a daughter Kimberly Ann that is deceased and one grandson Brian Charles that is deceased. I continue to play lead guitar in church and make furniture on the side. I hope you enjoy this true-life story that I have written. Cecil Hensley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 145673041X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
My name is Cecil Hensley. Im 76 years old, and I was born and raised in Perry County, Kentucky. Th is is a true life story I lived and experienced in the depression days of the 1930s. I now reside in Austin, Indiana, with my wife Betty Ann of 52 years. We have 5 children, 24 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild that God has blessed us with. We have a daughter Kimberly Ann that is deceased and one grandson Brian Charles that is deceased. I continue to play lead guitar in church and make furniture on the side. I hope you enjoy this true-life story that I have written. Cecil Hensley
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Author: Maurer Maurer
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915850
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915850
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A History of Appalachia
Author: Richard B. Drake
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813137934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813137934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.
They Say in Harlan County
Author: Alessandro Portelli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934851
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
A History of Eastern Kentucky University
Author: William Elliott Ellis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813129143
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, celebrated its centennial in 2006. EKU has had a colorful history, from the political quandaries surrounding the inception of its predecessor institutions to its financial difficulties during the Depression to its maturing as a leading regional university. Reflecting on the social, economic, and cultural changes in the region over the last century, William E. Ellis follows each university president's administration in the context of the times. Interviews of alumni, faculty, staff, and political figures add to the story. A History of Eas.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813129143
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, celebrated its centennial in 2006. EKU has had a colorful history, from the political quandaries surrounding the inception of its predecessor institutions to its financial difficulties during the Depression to its maturing as a leading regional university. Reflecting on the social, economic, and cultural changes in the region over the last century, William E. Ellis follows each university president's administration in the context of the times. Interviews of alumni, faculty, staff, and political figures add to the story. A History of Eas.
The Mess Kit
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizens' Military Training Camp (Camp Knox, Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Yearbook of the Citizens' Military Training Camp, Fifth Corps Area, Camp Knox, Kentucky.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizens' Military Training Camp (Camp Knox, Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Yearbook of the Citizens' Military Training Camp, Fifth Corps Area, Camp Knox, Kentucky.
Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912
Author: John Wilson Townsend
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Warfare in the American Homeland
Author: Joy James
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339236
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
DIVA collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society. /div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339236
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
DIVA collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society. /div
The Dickinson Family of Glasgow, Kentucky
Author: Lavece Ganter Hughes
Publisher: Wind Publications
ISBN: 9781893239425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A family history and genealogy -- From Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, and immigrants fleeing religious persecution, to Indian fighters on the Kentucky froniter, you'll be intrigued by the Dickinson family history and lore.
Publisher: Wind Publications
ISBN: 9781893239425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A family history and genealogy -- From Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, and immigrants fleeing religious persecution, to Indian fighters on the Kentucky froniter, you'll be intrigued by the Dickinson family history and lore.
Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas
Author: John Henry Brown
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.