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Bittersweet Memories of Home

Name: Bittersweet Memories of Home
Price: 4.7 USD
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$4.70

by Alice Patterson Patience, 71 pages, Paperback 

Alice Patterson Patience, wife of famous coal sculptor C. Edgar Patience writes of her experiences living in the Wyoming Valley from 1916-1998. Alice discusses the evolution of the Valley, the fall of the coal industry, and what it meant to be a black woman growing up in NEPA. The book also features a detailed genealogy of the Patterson and Patience families.

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