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Title: Telling It Like It Was!
Review: I may not know a rocket nozzle from a water hose nozzle but I do know Appalachian coal mining camps. I grew up in one in Kentucky the same years Mr. Hickman was firing his rockets in Coalwood, WVA. He knows his miners, his town and his mountains. Coal mining camps were pretty much the same, no matter the state. I recognized the people in his book as people I knew in Lynch, (Harlan County) Kentucky --- only the names had changed. We also had company homes, high school football, The Big Store, unforgettable teachers, mine disasters and moonshine --- but we never had the BCMA and we never had a Homer Hickman. Thank goodness Coalwood did have him because his book is a treasure that takes off like the rockets. If you come from the same background as I do, take a few free hours, grab a comfortable chair and plan to read it in one sitting because you really can't put it down!
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