Dear America: Coal Miner’s Daughter

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This month, we read A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska. This fictional diary was written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, who doesn’t shy away from complex or dark histories. Our lead Anetka marries a miner at age 13 and is a widow by 14. The book builds to the Lattimer massacre, with Anetka narrating her story and the challenges of being young and far from home along the way. Join us as we talk labor history, Loretta Lynn, and the purpose of diaries.

Oh, and ... Did we mention how grateful we are for YOU?

Original air date: November 25, 2020

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0:15.3	Welcome everyone to American Girls. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girls series book by book except here on Patreon where we're reliving basically anything
0:20.9	we think counts as within the worldview of this show.
0:24.4	I'm Mary.
0:25.6	I'm still Allison. And still Allison we gather here today to take on yet another volume in the Dear
0:32.2	America series.
0:34.0	Yes, you've heard of Coal Miner's daughter.
0:37.0	Today we bring you a coal miner's bride.
0:40.0	I like almost needed to call a therapist many times in this reading experience.
0:46.2	I was, I am traumatized, I'm not over it.
0:51.0	It was intense. The diary of Annette Kominska,
0:55.0	Kaminska, Latimer, Pennsylvania, 1896.
0:59.5	What a ride.
1:00.3	Allison, had you read this one before? I had not. This one was new to me. Right.
1:03.0	Allison, had you read this one before?
1:04.0	I had not. This one was new to me.
1:05.0	This one came out in 2000.
1:07.0	So I was probably still reading these books,
1:10.0	but this particular one just didn't come up for me. We had asked you all what we should read and Dear
1:16.2	America One and then this was a book that was mentioned a few times. You all gave us some really amazing ideas I think for future episodes
1:25.4	like a current Cushman book or visiting the cabbage patch birthing factory in
1:31.5	Georgia sure into it love to do we'd love to do that birthing factory in Georgia. Sure.
1:33.0	Into it.
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