"Mr George L Carter, the founder of Coalwood, came in on the back of a mule in 1887, finding nothing but wilderness and, after he dug a little, one of the richest seams of bituminous coal in the world."(Homer Hickam Jr pg 6)
"It was an unsettling moment, and we boys were always glad to get back to our games, yelling and brawling a little louder than necessary to shatter the spell cast on us by the tipple."( Homer Hickam Jr pg 11)
"Coalwood,West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it."(Homer Hickam Jr pg 1)
"Then the announcer said the tone was coming from something called Sputnik."(Homer Hickam Jr bottom of pg 18 and top of pg 19)
"It was an unsettling moment, and we boys were always glad to get back to our games, yelling and brawling a little louder than necessary to shatter the spell cast on us by the tipple."( Homer Hickam Jr pg 11)
"Coalwood,West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it."(Homer Hickam Jr pg 1)
"Then the announcer said the tone was coming from something called Sputnik."(Homer Hickam Jr bottom of pg 18 and top of pg 19)