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May 6, 2020

Impressions from a Coal Camp Childhood

TWO: Culture Shock My family moved to Colorado in August of 1956 from San Antonio, Texas, which was my father’s hometown and where we had grand-parents, cousins, aunts and uncles, even great-grandmothers nearby. My brothers and I were familiar with Colorado, however. Both of my mother’s parents and their siblings…

Memoir

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Impressions from a Coal Camp Childhood
Impressions from a Coal Camp Childhood

May 2, 2020

Impressions from a Coal Camp Childhood

ONE: Mystery Memories It is a mystery to me how the memory works. Why does an image of an event that may represent less than a couple of minutes in a long life, flash across the mind at what seems an unrelated time, and from a geographically distant place? My memory is no…

Coal

6 min read

Impressions from a Coal Camp Childhood
Impressions from a Coal Camp Childhood
Martie LaCasse

Martie LaCasse

Writer, editor, coach, fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, memoir. Write With Me Workshops, Creekside Education, co-founder FourSisters Press.

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