Generations: An American Family
by John Egerton
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Author: John EgertonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1983-09
ISBN: 0813114829
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Book Review: Highly recommended oral history of Appalachian family from KY
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the real story of Burnam and Addie Ledford of eastern Kentucky and their ancestors and their descendants. Author John Egerton, who spent quite a lot of time with the two Ledfords whose ages and memories were remarkable, took the ancient art of oral storytelling and crafted it into a well-written book. I felt I was actually there with Burnam and Addie while reading this book.
It's not just the story of this one family, but also a story about how some of our ancestors moved west through the Cumberland Gap; a story about how big and wide-spread a family tree gets over the years; a story about how slow things changed just a few generations ago, but how fast things change in today's world; about how you sometimes can't go back home and find home (devastation of mining in Appalachia). There is also a lesson here. Our ancestors all have interesting stories to tell, but if no one listens or writes them down, they get lost forever and that's a shame.
Summary of Generations: An American Family
The richly poignant oral history and biography of one Kentucky family whose stories chronicle the pageant of the American experience over nine generations--from the American Revolution to the present.Biographies & Memoirs Books
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