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    Children’S Poems and Illustrations: Rural Appalachia and Family
    Children’S Poems and Illustrations: Rural Appalachia and Family
    Children’S Poems and Illustrations: Rural Appalachia and Family
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    Children’S Poems and Illustrations: Rural Appalachia and Family

    By David Thompson

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    The following poems were written primarily for children, although adults may find them of interest. The poems reflect the Appalachian culture and influence and the hard times that once existed and still does to some extent. The poems are about a growing-up experience of rural life in Appalachia.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJan 24, 2014
    ISBN9781466990791
    Children’S Poems and Illustrations: Rural Appalachia and Family
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    David Thompson

    David Thompson is Professor of railway noise and vibration at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He has worked in the field of railway noise since 1980, with British Rail Research in Derby, United Kingdom, and the TNO Institute of Applied Physics in the Netherlands, before moving to Southampton in 1996. He was responsible for developing the TWINS software for predicting rolling noise.

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      Children’S Poems and Illustrations - David Thompson

      Children’s Poems and

      Illustrations:

      Rural Appalachia and Family

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      David Thompson

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      ©

      Copyright 2014 David Thompson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-4669-9078-4 (sc)

             978-1-4669-9079-1 (e)

      Trafford rev. 1/27/2014

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      CONTENTS

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      INTRODUCTION

      MEMORIES

      DAVID’S FAMILY LIFE

      MY APPALACHIAN MOTHER

      OUR FOUR GARDENS

      SUMMER DROUGHT AND GETTING WATER AS CHILDREN

      ON GRANDMA’S PORCH

      RATS AND SPIDERS

      MY BROTHER RAY WALKED THE LINE

      COPPERHEADS AND RATTLERS ARE ALL AROUND

      NEIGHBOR: FARMER JOE

      PINKY

      WE BATHED IN A TUB FROM RAIN WATER

      FEARING QUICKSAND

      MY AUNT JENNY

      MOUNTAIN WOMAN

      UP CHARLIE’S CREEK MY SISTER LIVED

      A BELL CROWD

      GAYONDOTTE RIVER AND COAL TRAIN RACE

      THE OIL PUMP STATION

      SKIP

      MY UNCLE CHARLIE

      MY BROTHER ROMA

      MY FRIEND CHARLES

      TENT

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