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A Truant from Kindergarten

A Truant from Kindergarten Jane McClellan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 1995, pp. 14-16 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0022 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436611/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:05 GMT from JHU Libraries A Truant from Kindergarten Jane McClellan The gray sky that opened morning on my rides to kindergarten resulted from a perspective at the "bottom" of steep hillsides of the Appalachian Mountains and from the haze of burning coal. Jenkins, Kentucky, in the 1930s escaped some of the worst effects of the Depression because the whole town—houses, stores, hospital and clinic, utilities, schools, churches—and its industry were owned by Consolidation Coal Com- pany. Everyone who lived there was employed by the company, and though wages were small, even a miner's child could usually afford kin- dergarten. Some five-year-olds walked there because the town was so safe. It was small enough for all the adults to know each other and to recognize one another's children. No matter where I walked, I was Jack McClellan's "young' un" or Sol Looney's "gran'chile." One of my earliest memories is of running away, always from kinder- garten. Presided over by Mrs. Hilsenbach, kindergarten for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A Truant from Kindergarten

McClellan, Jane.
Appalachian Review , Volume 23 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Jane McClellan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 1995, pp. 14-16 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0022 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436611/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:05 GMT from JHU Libraries A Truant from Kindergarten Jane McClellan The gray sky that opened morning on my rides to kindergarten resulted from a perspective at the "bottom" of steep hillsides of the Appalachian Mountains and from the haze of burning coal. Jenkins, Kentucky, in the 1930s escaped some of the worst effects of the Depression because the whole town—houses, stores, hospital and clinic, utilities, schools, churches—and its industry were owned by Consolidation Coal Com- pany. Everyone who lived there was employed by the company, and though wages were small, even a miner's child could usually afford kin- dergarten. Some five-year-olds walked there because the town was so safe. It was small enough for all the adults to know each other and to recognize one another's children. No matter where I walked, I was Jack McClellan's "young' un" or Sol Looney's "gran'chile." One of my earliest memories is of running away, always from kinder- garten. Presided over by Mrs. Hilsenbach, kindergarten for

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