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Ludtke grasped the magnitude of her commitment one winter morning in Prenter, W. Va. "There I was, sleeping in a room with the three Nelson children, sharing a bed with one of them, Nancy. At 5:30 Nancy got up and our day began. At the time, their father was a miner and their mother a homemaker. By my next visit, three months later, Mr. Nelson had been laid off from his job and was taking care of the kids, while Mrs. Nelson had entered the job force for the first time in her life...
EVERY SUNDAY MORNING DAVID Nelson's family attends church on nearby Williams Mountain, where his father Larry, a coal miner, was born 39 years ago. Inside the small Advent Christian church that his father and mother Joy, 36, helped build, David joins his brother Stephen, 7, and his sister Nancy, 13, in a Bible class. Later in the day, the family drives an hour and 15 minutes to another Advent Christian church at the top of a distant and twisting hollow. David's parents, who are licensed to preach, lead the service, which lasts nearly two hours...
...David Nelson, a pudgy, serious, persistent boy, there was never any question that he would be a coal miner like his dad, who came back from Viet Nam in 1971 and followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines. When David was younger, Larry took him for his first look at the mines. "He was ridin' me around," David recalls, "and I looked up and there was this big ! mountain covered with coal. I thought about working there someday...
When David turned ten last year, he was finally old enough for a Nelson family ritual, deer hunting. He had waited impatiently for the birthday. David's father had not been allowed to hunt with his father until he was ten. The waiting and expectation give importance to the ritual. David and his father went up on Old 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...
...world's most famous prisoner celebrated his 70th birthday last week in Pollsmoor Prison, outside Cape Town. Isolated from the other inmates, Nelson Mandela refused the government's offer of a special six-hour birthday visit from his family as a way of protesting the plight of thousands of black activists jailed in South Africa. Meanwhile, Pretoria ordered roadblocks around the prison and clamped down on tributes to Mandela, including outdoor meetings, a private tea party and a concert at the University of Cape Town, which ended with the arrival of riot police in gas masks...