Product Description
Hope runs like a river through Rainbows in Coal Country, a tale of Carole’s childhood adventures aboveground at the 1940s coal mine in Kentucky where Daddy works, and her parents’ 12-year struggle to save enough money to move into town. Their purpose? Educational opportunities for Carole and John, her older brother. Adversity abounds. Daddy is injured when the mine caves in, Mother almost dies in childbirth, Carole and John escape a dynamite blast, and Carole nearly drowns in a strip-mine pit. “Never give up hope,” Mother and Daddy say, showing Carole a rainbow. But why does Daddy never say goodbye? And what is so important about the things Mother locks in her cedar chest? The answers lie in this life-affirming story of a spunky little girl and a God-fearing family—a sometimes sad, often amusing, finally triumphant real-life testimony that hope is the fuel of a purposeful life.