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What I Learned from Pa Sheats
http://open.salon.com/blog/working_class_heroes/2012/04/05/what_i_learned_from_pa_sheats
My maternal grandfather was a big man. A lifelong coal miner, spare time butcher, he and his strong and bold bride raised twelve kids. I guess times were different then. By the time I was big enough to visit and stay with Pa Sheats, my grandparents lived in a small coal town in southwestern Pennsylvania. Harry was his name, and he had mined coal a long time. He also fought for his union and his co-workers. He was a personal acquaintance of John L. Lewis, and the neighbors in this small town called him Mr. Harry.
They were not like you and me, they were mostly “hunkies.” That made no difference to him though, he even learned to sp...

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