Pleasant Valley Lost (Hardback)
Hardcover 522 pages English Jun 27, 2016
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Maxy Awards Winner - Best NonfictionThe government took the land. But it couldn't erase what was built there.In the late 1960s, Joseph J. Swope's family farm-worked for generations in one of Pennsylvania's most fertile valleys-was condemned to make way for the Blue Marsh Dam. What followed was not just the loss of property, but the dismantling of a way of life.In Pleasant Valley Lost, Swope recounts the final years of the farm his family called home, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moved forward with a project that would ultimately submerge an entire community.Told with clarity and conviction, this memoir captures the emotional toll of displacement-the uncertainty, the resistance, and the quiet resilience required to move forward when everything familiar is taken away.More than a personal story, it is a record of a vanished place and a reminder of the human cost behind progress.
- Author:
- Joseph J. Swope
- Publisher:
- Black Rose Writing
- Publication Date:
- Jun 27, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 522 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1944715045
- ISBN-13:
- 9781944715045