Mountain Grown: Flaxpatch Creek, Kentucky

By Troy Fields Jr.

This book is a heartwarming collection of Troy's adventures and memories as a young boy growing up on Flaxpatch Branch (creek) in the southeastern Kentucky mountains during the Great Depression. While his family, friends and neighbors were all financially poor, they were rich in spirit, friendship, and love.

Troy tells his story in his own words, as only one who had lived it could, i.e., how a na?ve Appalachian mountain boy grew from playing marbles and attending a one-room schoolhouse, to becoming a Gunner's Mate aboard the USS Birmingham in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.

This is the true story of one man from "the greatest generation", and chronicles a way of life gone by, but not forgotten.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09MYXTFCH
• ISBN13: 9798775512705
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"