The Hawks Nest Tunnel
Title | The Hawks Nest Tunnel PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Spangler |
Publisher | Wythe-North Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-02 |
Genre | Construction workers |
ISBN | 9780980186208 |
Hawk's Nest
Title | Hawk's Nest PDF eBook |
Author | Hubert Skidmore |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2019-08-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1621905500 |
Appalachian Echoes Thomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor The building of a tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West Virginian Hubert Skidmore tried to tell the real story in his 1941 novel, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation apparently convinced publisher Doubleday, Doran & Co. to pull the book from publication after only a few hundred copies had appeared. Now the Appalachian Echoes series makes Hawk’s Nest available to a new generation of readers. This is the riveting tale of starving men and women making their way from all over the Depression-era United States to the hope and promise of jobs and a new life. What they find in West Virginia is “tunnelitis,” or silicosis, a disease which killed at least seven hundred workers—probably many more—a large number of them African American, virtually all of them poor. Skidmore’s roman à clef provides a narrative with emotional drive, interwoven with individual stories that capture the hopes and the desperation of the Depression: the Reips who come from the farm with their pots and pans and hard-working children, the immigrants Pete and Anna, kind waitress Lessie Lee, and “hobos” Jim Martin, “Long” Legg, and Owl Jones, the last of whom, as an African American, receives the worst treatment. This important story of conscience encompasses labor history, Appalachian studies, and literary finesse.
The Book of the Dead
Title | The Book of the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Muriel Rukeyser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781946684219 |
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
The Hawk's Nest Incident
Title | The Hawk's Nest Incident PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Cherniack |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1989-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300044850 |
Documents Union Carbide's construction in the 1930's of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel that allegedly caused the deaths of hundreds of workers through unsafe practices
Hawk's Nest
Title | Hawk's Nest PDF eBook |
Author | Hubert Skidmore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | Appalachian Region |
ISBN |
The Finder of Forgotten Things
Title | The Finder of Forgotten Things PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Loudin Thomas |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2021-12-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 149343375X |
It's one thing to say you can find what people need--it's another to actually do it. It's 1932 and Sullivan Harris is on the run. An occasionally successful dowser, he promised the people of Kline, West Virginia, that he would find them water. But when wells turned up dry, he disappeared with their cash just a step or two ahead of Jeremiah Weber, who was elected to run him down. Postmistress Gainey Floyd is suspicious of Sulley's abilities when he appears in her town but reconsiders after new wells fill with sweet water. Rather, it's Sulley who grows uneasy when his success makes folks wonder if he can find more than water--like forgotten items or missing people. He lights out to escape such expectations and runs smack into something worse. Hundreds of men have found jobs digging the Hawks Nest Tunnel--but what they thought was a blessing is killing them. And no one seems to care. Here, Sulley finds something new--a desire to help. With it, he becomes an unexpected catalyst, bringing Jeremiah and Gainey together to find what even he has forgotten: hope. "Sarah Loudin Thomas never disappoints! The Finder of Forgotten Things brings together a rich cast of characters, each at war with conflicting desires and ultimately destined to decide whether, even in the worst events, redemption waits to be discovered."--LISA WINGATE, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends "In a hardscrabble 1930s setting, complex characters wrestle with justice, mercy, inequality, honesty, and the fact that they are all prodigals still searching for the way home. Loudin Thomas delivers a stunning tale of one of the worst industrial disasters in U.S. history, underlined with a moral imperative to love one's neighbor that still hits home today."--Library Journal "Loudin Thomas introduces a multifaceted cast desperately trying to survive the Great Depression in 1930s West Virginia, in this strong historical. . . . The small-town plot's set against the real-life Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster. . . . giving Loudin Thomas impetus to underline the impact of acts of caring in a community." --Publishers Weekly
Avian Architecture
Title | Avian Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Goodfellow |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 83 |
Release | 2011-06-05 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 069114849X |
Examines the nests that birds build around the world, including illustrations of each nest type's construction, descriptions of the materials and techniques used during the process, and case studies on specific birds' habitats.