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grandmother's life often sounded like a Laura Ingles Wilder story, I used to tease
her. Born in Letcher County, Kentucky in the late summer of 1899, she never described
the house her family lived in, but only spoke of a towering oak tree that shaded
the front and the adventures she had with her brothers. But, as I work on this
log house, I like to imagine it as being not unlike the house she might have lived
in until she was 10 years old. Her mother persuaded my great-grandfather to sell
the Letcher County farm and leave because she didn't want her sons to grow up
and go to work in the coal mines. They left the Kentucky mountains in a covered
wagon, then traveled by train to Oklahoma and later to Washington state. |
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