Description:

This is the story of growing up in a southern Indiana coal town, Linton, Indiana. It tells of life in a small town whose existence owes to the coal beds that gave the town its existence. Characters and events of the 1940's and '50's are described, as seen through the eyes of a youth growing up there. The book sketches the author's family and neighbors and the Scottish family that migrated to America in the late 1880's and made it all possible.