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1 online resource (147 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1. Two Rivers and a Canebrake; 2. Point Isabel Becomes Burnside; 3. Life in Lower Burnside; 4. Higher in Lower Burnside; 5. Settling on Tyree's Knob; 6. Great Events; 7. Burnside School; 8. More Great Events; 9. Grief and Good-byes; Epilogue; A Note on Sources |
| Summary |
In the early years of this century, Burnside, Kentucky, was a bustling community perched on and above the floodplain formed by the Cumberland River and the South Fork. It was a center for shipping by rail and steamboat packet, and its lumber mills sent their products all over the world. The lower part of the town -- once the heart of its economic being -- now lies beneath the waters of Lake Cumberland, and the remaining streets above no longer resound with the clatter and roar of older and busier times. Harriet Simpson Arnow moved to Burnside with her parents and sisters in 1913, a few months |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson, 1908-1986 -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky -- Burnside
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Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson, 1908-1986 fast |
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Kentucky -- Burnside
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Authors, American
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
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Homes
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Intellectual life
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Burnside (Ky.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Kentucky -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Burnside (Ky.) -- Biography
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Kentucky
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Kentucky -- Burnside
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813148892 |
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0813148898 |
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