Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even at his age, David understands that workers are being replaced by machines that can mine more coal more cheaply. His father has been laid off twice, the previous time for three years, so David worries about coal's future as well as his own. "I'm afraid," he says, "that later on the dead trees and plants won't be able to produce coal and everybody will be losing their jobs...
...Brammer Ridge to search for a buck with antlers big enough to be legal. "We got to where we's goin'," David remembers. "We couldn't find no deer." There were more deer when he was a boy, Larry told his son. The note of elegy, of an age gone and irrecoverable, lingered in the autumn...
...have to talk to them about it at this age, but times are so different," says Sherri. She speaks as if it has been decades since she was a child. "Under the influence of drugs, 14-year-old boys might decide to go off and grab Bianca. Every time she leaves out the door, it is scary." For both mother and daughter, the nightmares have already begun...
Staff members at Montlake Community Day School try to come up with new ways to entertain and stimulate their charges, about 20 kids who range in age from five to eleven. Every day there are fresh art projects, and occasionally there are puppet-show premieres. The children construct large forts out of masking tape and tightly rolled newspapers. There are sing-alongs and story sharings at snack time...
...age of broken families, working mothers and perils like drugs, growing up is not easy. From the depressed hollows of West Virginia to the comfortable breezes off Puget Sound, five terrific kids laugh and play and struggle through the jagged landscape of modern childhood...