Steve Repko

Old George's Gold (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a historical novel about the life of a young man growing up during the Great Depression and World War II in the cold fields of South Pennsylvania and the struggles he incurred after his father was killed in the mining accident. Old George was shell-shocked coal miner who lived in a shack near the community where the boy lived. Martin was a talented artist who has very little to look forward to when he found out that George had a lot of money and he didnt keep it in the bank. Martin befriends the troubled old man with the intent of getting a hold of the money for his own use. His friendship with George grew, and when the old man froze to death during the snowstorm, Martin searched for the money. The old mans cabin was ravished and burned by a horde of local people who had the same idea. Martin eventually found the money, and he gave it to an orphanage where Georges blind niece resided.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781490753621
• Artikelnr.: 52570167

Autorenporträt

Born on November 25, 1932, the author is the eighth of nine children born to John and Theresa Repko, Hungarian immigrants that settled in a company-provided house in a coal mining community located in Allegheny Mountains of Southwesten Pennsylvania. The author's father was killed in a coal mine accident in 1935, leaving the author's mother a single parent of nine children and of little income. Since social security had not been enacted the author's family were subsided on a $5 per child per month allowance from the mine. This allowance was only up to the sixteenth birthday. The author's family lived in poverty during the hard times brought on by the Great Depression of 1930. The author was the first child in the family to graduate high school and soon afterwards served in the USAF during the Korean War as an air traffic controller. The author married in 1956 and had four children and moved to Brooklyn, New York, continuing his career as an air traffic controller for the FAA until he retired in 1986. He is currently residing in Wading River, New Jersey, with his wife of fifty-eight years.