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Storming Heaven

Denise Giardina
Chapters (38)
  1. Cover
  2. ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
  3. Storming Heaven
  4. DENISE GIARDINA
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. Contents
  9. Part One
  10. One
  11. Two
  12. Three
  13. Four
  14. Five
  15. Six
  16. Seven
  17. Eight
  18. Part Two
  19. Nine
  20. Part Three
  21. Ten
  22. Eleven
  23. Twelve
  24. Thirteen
  25. Fourteen
  26. Fifteen
  27. Sixteen
  28. Seventeen
  29. Part Four
  30. Eighteen
  31. Nineteen
  32. Twenty
  33. Twenty-one
  34. Twenty-two
  35. Twenty-three
  36. Twenty-four
  37. Twenty-five
  38. AFTERWORD

Cover

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Good King Harry

Storming Heaven

DENISE GIARDINA

Storming Heaven

A NOVEL

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W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • New York • London

Copyright

Copyright © 1987 by Denise Giardina

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Giardina, Denise, 1951-
Storming heaven.

I. Title.
PS3557.I136S76   1987   813’.54   86-23764

ISBN: 978-0-393-07626-4

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Dedication

For Mernie King, Perk Perkins, Tricia Perkins, and Jim Lewis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to the following people who contributed to the writing of this book in many ways, large and small.

Colleen Anderson, Fred Barkey, Ann Barth, Billy Ray Belcher, Patty Flo Belcher, Bill Blizzard, Nancy Brallier, Harry Brawley, Tony Burgess, Steve Cohen, Rob Currie, Kate Fitzgerald, Charli Fulton, John Gaventa, Dennis Giardina, Leona Whitt Giardina, Frank Giardina, Joe Bob Goodwin, Dale Grimmett, Joe Hacala, Jerry Hardt, Bill Harrington, Ken Hechler, Faith Holsaert, Myles Horton, Freda Jones, Opie Jones, Tod Kaufman, Terry Keleher, Lorrie Lane, Judy Lewis, David Liden, Kate Long, Hermer Lucas, John McFerrin, Dr. Jimmie Mangus, Connie Marcum, Homer Marcum, Jim Marcum, Walter Marcum, Linda Martin, Bob Noone, Mary Kay O’Rourke, Joe Peschel, Mary Ratliff, Alec Reynolds, Paul Sheridan, Susan Small, Bob Spence, Joe Szakos, Kristin Layng Szakos, Jim Waggy, Susan Weber, Mary Beth Wells, Elmo Whitt, Ertel Whitt, Lois Whitt, Rodney Whitt, Bob Wise.

Also the West Virginia Department of Culture and History, the Library of Congress, Mayor Bob Cruikshanks and the Town of Pratt, the Highlander Center, the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, Sojourners Fellowship, the Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition, the West Virginia Land Ownership Study, the Charleston Gazette, and the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund.

A special thank you to George Garrett for his unselfish efforts on behalf of young writers, to Jane Gelfman for her patience and encouragement, and to my editor, Kathy Anderson.

And in grateful memory of Ned Chilton, publisher of the Charleston Gazette, whose fighting spirit inspired the Annadel Free Press.

I am indebted to the following books and their authors: Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields, David Alan Corbin; Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley, John Gaventa; Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War 1920–21, Lon Savage; Bloodletting in Appalachia, Howard B. Lee; Struggle in the Coal Fields: The Autobiography of Fred Mooney; King Coal, Stan Cohen; Civil War in West Virginia, by Winthrop D. Lane for the New York Evening Post; Land of the Guyandot, Robert Y. Spence; Sodom and Gomorrah of Today: Or a History of Keystone, West Virginia, by an anonymous Virginia “Lad,” 1912.

Contents

Part One

One: C. J. MARCUM

Two: RONDAL LLOYD

Three: CARRIE BISHOP

Four: ROSA ANGELELLI

Five: C. J. MARCUM

Six: CARRIE BISHOP

Seven: ROSA ANGELELLI

Eight: RONDAL LLOYD

Part Two

Nine: CARRIE BISHOP

Part Three

Ten: C. J. MARCUM

Eleven: CARRIE BISHOP

Twelve: C. J. MARCUM

Thirteen: CARRIE BISHOP

Fourteen: ROSA ANGELELLI

Fifteen: RONDAL LLOYD

Sixteen: ROSA ANGELELLI

Seventeen: CARRIE BISHOP

Part Four