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Ronnie Ray Jenkins is one of 11 children who spent his youth in the coal patch of the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. Truly, “A Coalminer’s Son,” Jenkins is the author of six novels, and several collections of short [...]
While taking a hike down a country road near dusk in my teens, an old farmer, plodding along with his walking stick, abruptly stopped me.
His wrinkled-weathered skin did not diminish the energy in his clear blue eyes. Silver locks flowed from [...]