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Shipe, Kenneth

 
9780595287956: All My Born Days: Stories by a Sharecropper's Son
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ISBN 10 : 0595287956 ISBN 13 : 9780595287956
Editeur : iUniverse, 2003

Synopsis

In All My Born Days-Stories by a Sharecropper's Son, a historical autobiography, Kenneth R. Shipe looks back on his early life in the poverty-stricken hills of West Virginia, and recalls how his parents struggled during the Depression to scratch a living from the soil for a family of ten. He tells how a New Deal farm loan made it possible for his father to work as a sharecropper in Maryland and describes the primitive processes the Shipe family used for growing and harvesting crops, butchering animals and preserving meat.The Shipes were ruled by the forces of nature: bitter cold winters; a flood that washed over their West Virginia home; and a forest fire that surrounded their house in Maryland and had Ken and his family flat on their bellies, gasping for breath. Ken remembers humorous incidents from his days in a country schoolhouse, and how he almost lost his life when his new bicycle ran off a mountain road. And he writes about World War II, which snatched up his brothers and critical farm helpers, leading to failure of the Shipes' sharecropping venture and subsequently his own call to duty as a Marine in the Korean War.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In All My Born Days-Stories by a Sharecropper's Son, a historical autobiography, Kenneth R. Shipe looks back on his early life in the poverty-stricken hills of West Virginia, and recalls how his parents struggled during the Depression to scratch a living from the soil for a family of ten. He tells how a New Deal farm loan made it possible for his father to work as a sharecropper in Maryland and describes the primitive processes the Shipe family used for growing and harvesting crops, butchering animals and preserving meat.The Shipes were ruled by the forces of nature: bitter cold winters; a flood that washed over their West Virginia home; and a forest fire that surrounded their house in Maryland and had Ken and his family flat on their bellies, gasping for breath. Ken remembers humorous incidents from his days in a country schoolhouse, and how he almost lost his life when his new bicycle ran off a mountain road. And he writes about World War II, which snatched up his brothers and critical farm helpers, leading to failure of the Shipes' sharecropping venture and subsequently his own call to duty as a Marine in the Korean War.

Biographie de l'auteur

Kenneth R. Shipe, former Marine and Korean War veteran, was born in Springfield, WV. A member of space launch vehicle teams at Cape Canaveral for 25 years, he retired in 1992 from Lockheed Martin Aerospace as a departmental director. He and his wife, Dottie, are avid volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595287956
ISBN 13 
9780595287956
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
186
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