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The Heart of the Hills eBooks
by John Jr. Fox
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The Heart of the Hills Summary
| In this story by John Fox, Jr., little Jason and Mavia Hawn, two children of the Cumberland region, join the lives of Gray and Marjorie Pendleton. After their first meeting and an evaluation of need and circumstance, Jason and Mavia are sent to the blue grass county to attend school. An age-old feud between the Hawns and the Honeycutts along with the misuse of natural resources by outside finances, political discord, and a tobacco growers' war in the lowlands are the definitive subjects of this novel. John Fox also clearly shows how the mountain people were taken advantage of by the industrialists who made themselves rich by mining the coal and cutting the timber. When he traveled through the Kentucky and Virginia mountains he witnessed the devastation of clearcutting. Because his father had tried to warn others of this environmental offense, John Jr. dedicated the book to him, resolved to recompense the damage done to the mountain people. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. |
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| In this story by John Fox, Jr., little Jason and Mavia Hawn, two children of the Cumberland region, join the lives of Gray and Marjorie Pendleton. After their first meeting and an evaluation of need and circumstance, Jason and Mavia are sent to the blue grass county to attend school. An age-old feud between the Hawns and the Honeycutts along with the misuse of natural resources by outside finances, political discord, and a tobacco growers' war in the lowlands are the definitive subjects of this novel. John Fox also clearly shows how the mountain people were taken advantage of by the industrialists who made themselves rich by mining the coal and cutting the timber. When he traveled through the Kentucky and Virginia mountains he witnessed the devastation of clearcutting. Because his father had tried to warn others of this environmental offense, John Jr. dedicated the book to him, resolved to recompense the damage done to the mountain people. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. |
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| Jason, called Burnham again, for he knew what the boy meant, and the lad tossed knife and scabbard over the heads of the crowd to the grass, and slid down the pole. And in the fight that followed, the mountain boy fought with a calm, half-smiling ferocity that made the wavering freshmen instinctively surge behind him as a leader, and the onlooking foot-ball coach quickly mark him for his own. |
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| Twin spirals of blue smoke rose on either side of the spur, crept tendril-like up two dark ravines, and clearing the feathery green crests of the trees, drifted lazily on upward until, high above, they melted shyly together and into the haze that veiled the drowsy face of the mountain. |
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Twin spirals of blue smoke rose on either side of the spur, crept tendril-like up two dark ravines, and clearing the feathery green crests of the trees, drifted lazily on upward until, high above, they melted shyly together and into the haze that veiled the drowsy face of the mountain.
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