My Appalachia
Author: Sidney Saylor Farr
Category: Other2
Published: 2007
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Read OnlineThis remarkable memoir is "both one person's extraordinary life story and a first-hand look at life in the mountains in a time that is fading from memory" (Kentucky Monthly).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. Her devotion to her family led her to accept heavy responsibilities from a very young age: At three, she remembers being put in charge of her baby sister while her parents worked in the corn field, and at twelve, she was forced to leave school to care for her ailing mother and younger siblings. Though she didn't have much time to pursue her...
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