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Drowned town /Jayne Moore Waldrop.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSEDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781950564163
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3623 .D769 2021
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
View from Within -- Weekend Visitor -- For What It's Worth -- Wedding Chapel -- Drift -- Drowned Town -- Unmoored -- Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music -- Across the Creek -- Signs -- Refresher Course -- Thanksgiving -- Remodel -- Watershed -- Mint Springs.
Subject: "They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long. Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound by western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes and the lakes that lie on either side of it. The linked stories are rooted in a landscape forever altered by the impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and the taking of property under the power of eminent domain to create the national recreation area on a narrow strip of land running between the lakes. The massive federal land and water projects that came in quick succession were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress for the region, but at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, towns and history in the process. The narrative follows two women characters whose lives are shaped by their friendship and connection to the place, and goes back and forth in time to show how the creation of the lakes both healed and hurt the people connected to them. In the process, the stories focus on the importance of sisterhood and family, both blood and created, and how we cannot separate ourselves from our places in the world"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PS3623.35835 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1259506923

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Dry Ground -- View from Within -- Weekend Visitor -- For What It's Worth -- Wedding Chapel -- Drift -- Drowned Town -- Unmoored -- Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music -- Across the Creek -- Signs -- Refresher Course -- Thanksgiving -- Remodel -- Watershed -- Mint Springs.

"They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long. Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound by western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes and the lakes that lie on either side of it. The linked stories are rooted in a landscape forever altered by the impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and the taking of property under the power of eminent domain to create the national recreation area on a narrow strip of land running between the lakes. The massive federal land and water projects that came in quick succession were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress for the region, but at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, towns and history in the process. The narrative follows two women characters whose lives are shaped by their friendship and connection to the place, and goes back and forth in time to show how the creation of the lakes both healed and hurt the people connected to them. In the process, the stories focus on the importance of sisterhood and family, both blood and created, and how we cannot separate ourselves from our places in the world"--

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