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The Kindred Gathering: A Reckoning with the Melungeons (The Battle for Coalwood) (The Kindred Gathering, 2) - Softcover
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Book two of the Clear Fork Series It s 1963, a time when coal and steel companies are posting only meager profits, and a huge easy-to-mine coal seam is found in Clear Fork, Coalwood, McDowell County, West Virginia. Coal and Steel executives are ecstatic until they discover the deposit is not on company land the land is owned by the Whitaker family whose ancestors centuries before settled Clear Fork. Company officials, led by a self-important blueblood from New England, try to take the land through legal and illegal means. As a result of the actions of a corrupt judge, the Whitakers are forced to call a gathering of their kindred to defend Clear Fork. A rich Ohio widow, a college professor and a small group of teenagers join the Whitakers, and from every direction, North America s strangest clans, including the mysterious Melungeons, converge on McDowell County. As a result, steel company officials learn the power of the Kindred.
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J. R. Hatmaker is a native of Coalwood, McDowell County, West Virginia, an area once known as Clear Fork. Born into a coalmining family, Hatmaker grew up in the innocent and fun-filled days of the 1950s and turbulent 60s. He graduated from Big Creek High School at War, and subsequently attended the University of Maryland and Mundelein College. He graduated from the East European Language and Area Studies Program at Syracuse University. A decorated Vietnam-era veteran and former businessman, Hatmaker is now retired and resides in central Ohio, where he continues to write about life in the Appalachians.
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