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Author: Allen Booth Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781535555173 Category : Languages : en Pages : 224
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One Man. One Woman. A Lifetime of Achievements. Paul F. Maddox grew up during the Great Depression in rural Eastern Kentucky. Everyday life was a challenge for most during this time, especially for those living in one of the poorest regions of Appalachia. Orphaned at the age of six, he overcame poverty, insecurity, and disability to follow his dreams. In 1951, Paul married Patricia Lamb-a young lady with drive and devotion. After Paul graduated from the University of Louisville's School of Medicine and served an internship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, the couple opened a practice in Campton-a rural, tobacco-farming town nestled in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. Dr. Paul and Patricia Maddox would work for over half a century to make the impoverished area a better place to live. Dr. Maddox rose to national prominence during the 1960's through his efforts to lower the poverty rate using birth control. During this time, he became known as the busiest doctor in the country. Open virtually 24/7, the Maddox Clinic regularly attended over 100 patients per day and delivered over 6,000 babies. In 1999, Dr. Maddox was presented the prestigious Country Doctor of the Year Award. The life of Dr. Paul and Patricia Maddox is an against-all-odds story of personal strength, determination, and perseverance during a time and in a place where few dreams came true. Their narrative is a model that we can use as an inspiration to improve ourselves and the lives of those around us.
Author: Allen Booth Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781535555173 Category : Languages : en Pages : 224
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One Man. One Woman. A Lifetime of Achievements. Paul F. Maddox grew up during the Great Depression in rural Eastern Kentucky. Everyday life was a challenge for most during this time, especially for those living in one of the poorest regions of Appalachia. Orphaned at the age of six, he overcame poverty, insecurity, and disability to follow his dreams. In 1951, Paul married Patricia Lamb-a young lady with drive and devotion. After Paul graduated from the University of Louisville's School of Medicine and served an internship at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, the couple opened a practice in Campton-a rural, tobacco-farming town nestled in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. Dr. Paul and Patricia Maddox would work for over half a century to make the impoverished area a better place to live. Dr. Maddox rose to national prominence during the 1960's through his efforts to lower the poverty rate using birth control. During this time, he became known as the busiest doctor in the country. Open virtually 24/7, the Maddox Clinic regularly attended over 100 patients per day and delivered over 6,000 babies. In 1999, Dr. Maddox was presented the prestigious Country Doctor of the Year Award. The life of Dr. Paul and Patricia Maddox is an against-all-odds story of personal strength, determination, and perseverance during a time and in a place where few dreams came true. Their narrative is a model that we can use as an inspiration to improve ourselves and the lives of those around us.
Author: Penny Loeb Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813172527 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 328
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Deep in the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfields, one of the most important environmental and social empowerment battles in the nation has been waged for the past decade. Fought by a heroic woman struggling to save her tiny community through a landmark lawsuit, this battle, which led all the way to the halls of Congress, has implications for environmentally conscious people across the world. The story begins with Patricia Bragg in the tiny community of Pie. When a deep mine drained her neighbors’ wells, Bragg heeded her grandmother’s admonition to “fight for what you believe in” and led the battle to save their drinking water. Though she and her friends quickly convinced state mining officials to force the coal company to provide new wells, Bragg’s fight had only just begun. Soon large-scale mining began on the mountains behind her beloved hollow. Fearing what the blasting off of mountaintops would do to the humble homes below, she joined a lawsuit being pursued by attorney Joe Lovett, the first case he had ever handled. In the case against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Bragg v. Robertson), federal judge Charles Haden II shocked the coal industry by granting victory to Joe Lovett and Patricia Bragg and temporarily halting the practice of mountaintop removal. While Lovett battled in court, Bragg sought other ways to protect the resources and safety of coalfield communities, all the while recognizing that coal mining was the lifeblood of her community, even of her own family (her husband is a disabled miner). The years of Bragg v. Robertson bitterly divided the coalfields and left many bewildered by the legal wrangling. One of the state’s largest mines shut down because of the case, leaving hardworking miners out of work, at least temporarily. Despite hurtful words from members of her church, Patricia Bragg battled on, making the two-hour trek to the legislature in Charleston, over and over, to ask for better controls on mine blasting. There Bragg and her friends won support from delegate Arley Johnson, himself a survivor of one of the coalfield’s greatest disasters. Award-winning investigative journalist Penny Loeb spent nine years following the twists and turns of this remarkable story, giving voice both to citizens, like Patricia Bragg, and to those in the coal industry. Intertwined with court and statehouse battles is Patricia Bragg’s own quiet triumph of graduating from college summa cum laude in her late thirtie and moving her family out of welfare and into prosperity and freedom from mining interests. Bragg’s remarkable personal triumph and the victories won in Pie and other coalfield communities will surprise and inspire readers.
Author: Eve S. Weinbaum Publisher: ISBN: 9781565847842 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 340
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"Eve Weinbaum's firsthand look at the devastation wrought by the closings of community-sustaining factories become moving stories in the age of corporate globalization. With striking portraits of managers, workers, organizers, and local officials, the book sets the Appalachian plant closings squarely in the economic and political context of economic development strategies and uncovers a government and economic leadership whose policies show little regard for the workers they leave behind. Yet despite the repeated defeat of the workers an astonishingly fiery economic justice movement sprung up in Tennessee as factory workers were transformed into sophisticated activists, generating coalitions, starting allied campaigns for living wages, and writing groundbreaking legislation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Richard C. Davids Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 9780800612375 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 274
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This biography of Reverend Bob Childress of the Blue Ridge Mountains has been compared to the tales of Mark Twain and the Mississippi. Shows Childress' transforming effects on rough and wild mountain communities.
Author: Erik Reece Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781594482366 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 288
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A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction.
Author: Meredith Sue Willis Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 082141920X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 181
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Meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis’s stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and homophobia. Always, however, the situations depicted in these stories are explored in the service of a deeper understanding of the people involved, and of the place. This is not the mythic version of Appalachia, but the Appalachia of the twenty-first century.
Author: Penny Loeb Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813189292 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 400
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Deep in the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfields, one of the most important environmental and social empowerment battles in the nation has been waged for the past decade. Fought by a heroic woman struggling to save her tiny community through a landmark lawsuit, this battle, which led all the way to the halls of Congress, has implications for environmentally conscious people across the world. The story begins with Patricia Bragg in the tiny community of Pie. When a deep mine drained her neighbors' wells, Bragg heeded her grandmother's admonition to "fight for what you believe in" and led the battle to save their drinking water. Though she and her friends quickly convinced state mining officials to force the coal company to provide new wells, Bragg's fight had only just begun. Soon large-scale mining began on the mountains behind her beloved hollow. Fearing what the blasting off of mountaintops would do to the humble homes below, she joined a lawsuit being pursued by attorney Joe Lovett, the first case he had ever handled. In the case against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Bragg v. Robertson), federal judge Charles Haden II shocked the coal industry by granting victory to Joe Lovett and Patricia Bragg and temporarily halting the practice of mountaintop removal. While Lovett battled in court, Bragg sought other ways to protect the resources and safety of coalfield communities, all the while recognizing that coal mining was the lifeblood of her community, even of her own family (her husband is a disabled miner). The years of Bragg v. Robertson bitterly divided the coalfields and left many bewildered by the legal wrangling. One of the state's largest mines shut down because of the case, leaving hardworking miners out of work, at least temporarily. Despite hurtful words from members of her church, Patricia Bragg battled on, making the two-hour trek to the legislature in Charleston, over and over, to ask for better controls on mine blasting. There Bragg and her friends won support from delegate Arley Johnson, himself a survivor of one of the coalfield's greatest disasters. Award-winning investigative journalist Penny Loeb spent nine years following the twists and turns of this remarkable story, giving voice both to citizens, like Patricia Bragg, and to those in the coal industry. Intertwined with court and statehouse battles is Patricia Bragg's own quiet triumph of graduating from college summa cum laude in her late thirtie and moving her family out of welfare and into prosperity and freedom from mining interests. Bragg's remarkable personal triumph and the victories won in Pie and other coalfield communities will surprise and inspire readers.
Author: Cassie Chambers Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 1984818937 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 305
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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) “A gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities and the resourceful women who lead them.”—Slate Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her 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. Granny’s daughter, Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish college. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her “hill women” values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues from domestic violence to the opioid crisis, but they are also keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.
Author: Helen M. Lewis Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 081318858X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 433
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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: Allen Booth
Author: Allen Booth
Author: Penny Loeb
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Author: Eve S. Weinbaum
Author: Richard C. Davids
Author: Erik Reece
Author: Meredith Sue Willis
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Author: Cassie Chambers
Author: Helen M. Lewis