This is a heartfelt memoir of Settle's childhood and her love of her grandmother, Addie Tompkins. Addie: A Memoir by Mary Lee Settle of Cedar Grove and Charleston, WV. This novel illuminates small town life and family dynamics in a Buckhannon-like town in West Virginia during and after the Vietnam War. Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips of Buckhannon, WV. Morgan, like Jim Wayne Miller, grew up on a farm with grandparents near-by. A novel based on the lives of Morgan's North Carolina grandparents. Miller grew up in North Carolina and spent his adult life in Kentucky. The story of a farm boy in North Carolina set in the 1940-1950's. This is the story of a traditional mountain woman of the 1900s.
Still, born in Alabama, spent most of his life in Kentucky. This novel shows the initial attraction coal mining had for subsistence farmers.
It is strange that they thus crowd where they are not wanted.'" The book goes on to say, the immigrants were driven from their settlements, their cabins burned, and they were told to move further into the wilderness.Ī Sampling of More Recent Literature A sampling of the more recent literature includes works related to farming, mining, mill work, lumbering, banking, gas and oil The land and natural disasters health care, religion, family ties, immigration, politics, industrial greed River of Earth by James Still. The common fear is that if they thus continue to come, they will make themselves proprietors of the Province. In 1724 an officer of one of the Provinces wrote, 'It looks to me as if Ireland is to send all its inhabitants hither for last week not less than six ships arrived. They were regarded as 'pugnacious' people and undesirable neighbors. "The presence of the Scotch-Irish was not welcomed….
From The Planting of Presbyterianism in the Northern Neck of Virginia (no author given):
The media, the visitor, the native, the educated settlers of the county seats and small towns Children of the veterans and children of the immigrants The land the environment family relationships industrial and political issues, religion The ports of entry: New York Baltimore Philadelphia. Phyllis Wilson Moore Meredith Sue Willis Home Various Kinds of Writing About the Region By Phyllis Wilson Moore, 2012 Explorers, naturalist letterwriters, surveyors, journalist, pioneers: George Washington Missionaries, tourist, travel writers, journalist, and settlers: Ann Royall and David Hunter Strother are two examples.
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