Tag: Appalachia

Free Download Sidney Saylor Farr, "My Appalachia: A Memoir"
English | 2007 | pages: 258 | ISBN: 0813124506 | PDF | 3,7 mb
"My family lived as far back in the hollers as it was possible to go in Bell County, Kentucky. Dad worked in the timber woods and at a sawmill, when there was employment to be found. We ate what we grew on the place or could glean from the hillsides. Just about everything was made by hand. We had little contact with people outside the region." Sidney Saylor Farr grew up in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, the eldest of ten children.

Free Download Escape from Appalachia: Who Will Rescue Me? by Mary Frances Barron
English | May 31, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D5VWZM92 | 400 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb
Told through the eyes of a witty, outgoing, and curious little girl, Francie beautifully weaves together personal narratives and historical information about the ever-present American tragedy known as Appalachia. She peels back layers of her early life while walking us through the patches where coal miners and their families once lived, the impact of surviving in a contaminated environment, and the everyday threat of pollution, addiction, toothlessness, chronic depression, and abuse. An area where drugs and alcohol numb the pain of reality.

Free Download Escape from Appalachia: Who Will Rescue Me? by Mary Frances Barron
English | May 31st, 2024 | ISBN: 9798990457638 | 398 pages | True EPUB | 11.24 MB
Told through the eyes of a witty, outgoing, and curious little girl, Francie beautifully weaves together personal narratives and historical information about the ever-present American tragedy known as Appalachia. She peels back layers of her early life while walking us through the patches where coal miners and their families once lived, the impact of surviving in a contaminated environment, and the everyday threat of pollution, addiction, toothlessness, chronic depression, and abuse. An area where drugs and alcohol numb the pain of reality.

Free Download Endangered and Disappearing Birds of Appalachia and the Southeast
by Williams, Matt;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0813198364 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 98.48 MB

Free Download Henry D. Shapiro, "Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920"
English | ISBN: 0807841587 | | 376 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to reconcile the "otherness" of Appalachia, as decribed by local-color writers, tourists, and home missionaries, with assumptions about the nature of America and American civilization.

Free Download Allison E. Carey, "Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in Appalachia "
English | ISBN: 143849355X | 2023 | 268 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1534 KB + 4 MB
A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

Free Download Ronald Eller, "Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945"
English | 2013 | pages: 390 | ISBN: 0813142466 | EPUB | 3,2 mb
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material production, consumption, and technology decried what they perceived as the isolation and backwardness of the place and sought to "uplift" the mountain people through education and industrialization.