{"product_id":"2940148376972","title":"Lady from Rosine","description":"This work is a biography of the author's mother.  It covers the time from the very early 1900's to 1996, when the mother, simply called Mama, passes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMama was born in Ohio County, Kentucky.  This is in the west central part of the state.  The area is very much a rural one.  The lifestyle of the people is described in detail, including their work and their play time.  Coal mining was a lively industry during the time when Mama was born and continued even when she was an older lady.  Those early mines were underground, and many miners lost their lives in cave-ins and other tragedies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamilies were very close together during those times.  Even the ones who had left the rural area and had gone to the big cities were careful to stay in touch with the ones still in the home area.  Inconvenient though it was, many of the ones far away still made the trip home to see the old folks and the others every year or two.  This tended to keep the entire families united.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosine is a little town on the railroad, and on US Highway 62, and is about halfway between Louisville, the largest city in the state, and Paducah, on the western tip of Kentucky, at the Mississippi River.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe towns with a railroad had a lot more activity than the towns without a railroad.  Railroads brought in business and provided means for the farmers to ship goods.  Tobacco was, probably, the largest cash crop, and it was shipped from the railroad towns to the buyers in Louisville.  Also, eggs were a commodity in demand, and hundreds of dozens went out of the railroad towns every day.  Some of the larger towns had creameries, where butter was made and sold.  Cream was shipped from different points along the railroad to those creameries, thus providing another source of cash for the local farmers.  Timber was another means of getting cash, although, of course, it was not a yearly thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe schools and the churches were the places that unified those small towns and the communities about them.  A very small community might have churches of several denominations, such as Baptist, Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian, Methodist, Church of Christ, Christian, and Church of God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt seemed that everyone in the country loved singing.  Although getting around by wagon was pretty slow, the areas had singing conventions every fifth Sunday in the summer months.  The conventions were spaced out from church to church.  A large area might have several singing convention divisions, giving everyone an opportunity to get to a convention without having to make too long a trip.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery church tried to send singers to the conventions.  With all the interest in singing, many of the groups went to singing classes.  They would learn the shape notes, and their songbooks would use those notes.  Singing teachers would hold classes every year.  The conventions would show their knowledge in the lovely songs for all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMama went to church regularly, and she went to singing schools, too, at a fairly young age.  Her father and her older brother were both good singers.  Mama grew up in that atmosphere.  She had a wonderful, alto voice, and she wasn't at all afraid for others to hear her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuite a few of the rural area people left to get jobs.  A lot of them went to Louisville, about a hundred miles away.  Others went to Chicago, to East Chicago, and to Indianapolis.  Except for Louisville, though, the biggest part went to Detroit.  That was a booming place in the early 1900's and most of the 1920's, until the stock market crash in 1929.  In 1923, Mama married a local man who was working in Detroit.  He had been raised in the country, but, when a very young man, he had gone into the Army, serving there in World War I.  After the war, he had gone to Detroit to work.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, Mama went to Detroit just as soon as she married, at the age of 18 years.  While there, three children were born, all boys.  The family was in Detroit until 1931, at which time they could no longer make it in that city.  Like so many others, they returned to the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For some time, her husband got a job in a CCC camp in western Kentucky, about 60-80 miles from Rosine.  He later got a job working for the government in Fort Knox, Kentucky,  He would catch the train home to the country, at or in Rosine, every Friday night and return to the job on a Sunday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore children came into Mama's family.  Two girls came, and two more boys were added.  One of the girls never grew out of childhood.  She caught typhoid fever when she was only five years old and died within a very few days.  Years later, the eldest, a boy, was killed in an auto accident in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he worked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMama's husband died when she was sixty-four years old.  She later went to live with a son in Fort Worth, Texas.  She died in his home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMama always loved Rosine more than any other place.  She loved the Bluegrass music.","brand":"Aladdin Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165565501680,"sku":"2940148376972","price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148376972_p0.jpg?v=1763701866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148376972","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}