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Betty Dotson Lewis Kathleen Colley Slusher
Biography
Betty Dotson-Lewis was born in the coalfields of southwest Virginia in Buchanan County where her family had deep roots in the coal and timber industries. Her dad moved his big family to a forty-two-acre farm high in the remote hills of Nicholas County, West Virginia when she was still a young girl. He was in pursuit of bigger game to hunt and bigger timber to cut. There in the mountains, Betty was raised surrounded by coal miners, coon hunters, and storytellers.
She hadn’t considered writing and publishing as part of her immediate plans since she was already employed in a time-consuming job for the Nicholas County Public School system. However, if you believe there is a Master Plan for each of us, then, you will understand how it came upon her to write. The Girl from Stretchneck Holler became her passion and purpose. Through a series of unusual visionary dreams and a continuous stream of support from those whose stories she documented, she realized this was, indeed, part of her Master Plan.
Betty Dotson-Lewis has a son and daughter. Her hometown is Summersville, West Virginia although she currently resides in North Carolina. She graduated from Nicholas County High School and studied at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.
Kathleen Colley Slusher is the eldest daughter of a World War II veteran and his Hawaiian-born Japanese bride. Upon her father’s retirement from a career in the Marine Corps, the family of seven resettled in his hometown of Haysi, located in the Appalachian foothills of southwest Virginia.
Blending her mother’s cherished stories of growing up in Hawaii with her stories of the mountain culture that her father so loved, Kathleen began writing about her rich and diverse heritage when attending Berea College.
Kathy lives with her daughter in Crab Orchard, Kentucky.
She hadn’t considered writing and publishing as part of her immediate plans since she was already employed in a time-consuming job for the Nicholas County Public School system. However, if you believe there is a Master Plan for each of us, then, you will understand how it came upon her to write. The Girl from Stretchneck Holler became her passion and purpose. Through a series of unusual visionary dreams and a continuous stream of support from those whose stories she documented, she realized this was, indeed, part of her Master Plan.
Betty Dotson-Lewis has a son and daughter. Her hometown is Summersville, West Virginia although she currently resides in North Carolina. She graduated from Nicholas County High School and studied at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.
Kathleen Colley Slusher is the eldest daughter of a World War II veteran and his Hawaiian-born Japanese bride. Upon her father’s retirement from a career in the Marine Corps, the family of seven resettled in his hometown of Haysi, located in the Appalachian foothills of southwest Virginia.
Blending her mother’s cherished stories of growing up in Hawaii with her stories of the mountain culture that her father so loved, Kathleen began writing about her rich and diverse heritage when attending Berea College.
Kathy lives with her daughter in Crab Orchard, Kentucky.
Where to find Betty Dotson Lewis Kathleen Colley Slusher online
Website: http://www.brightonpublishing.com
Where to buy in print
Books
The Girl From Stretchneck Holler "Inside Appalachia"
by Betty Dotson Lewis Kathleen Colley Slusher
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 72,560.
Language:
English.
Published: April 15, 2012
by
Brighton Publishing LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » General, Fiction » Inspirational
A heart-warming, heart-wrenching collection of short stories of moonshine, cock fights, domestic abuse, Holy Rollers, coal mine thugs and the simple yet complex lives of people up the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains. Coal mining provides a livelihood which is colored by violence, and the rape of mountains has forced an independent people into subservience.