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Gap Creek (Oprah’s Book Club)
Written by Robert Morgan
Review by Maria G. Parker
“A story of a marriage from the Poet Laureate of Appalachia,” the publisher tells us, along with the – probably economically more salient – fact that this work was chosen for Oprah’s book club. That would make it easy to dismiss for us intellectuals who don’t stoop to reading such fodder for the masses, but in fact, there is much to admire about it. Setting and voice are particularly remarkable. The turn-of-the-20th-century rural mountain setting is so integral and integrated to the story that it becomes a character of stature equal to the narrator, the young, newly-married Julie Richards. The seeming effortlessness with which Morgan masters her speech, and the thoughts that that speech expresses, are more than admirable. The plot – daily travails of the impoverished young couple, including some lengthy wrenching scenes of physical pain – doesn’t break any new ground for this subgenre, but it’s well-written enough to keep at least some readers engaged. It’s rather long on tragedy to succeed in making the reader feel as uplifted as the author clearly intends.
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Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in 1811, they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north. By 1814, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his land in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles. In 1816, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, their nine-year-old daughter Sarah, and seven-year-old Abraham moved to what became Indiana, where they settled in Hurricane Township, Perry County, Indiana. (Their land became part of Spencer County, Indiana, when it was formed in 1818.)
Lincoln spent his formative years, from the age of 7 to 21, on the family farm in Little Pigeon Creek Community of Spencer County, in Southwestern Indiana. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received a meager formal education, the accumulation of just under twelve months. However, Lincoln continued to learn on his own from life experiences, and through reading and reciting what he had read or heard from others. In October 1818, two years after they arrived in Indiana, nine-year-old Lincoln lost his birth mother,
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By Robert Morgan
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