Tag: father’s childhood

• Coal For Christmas

  My father grew up poor.  Not the kind of poor where he would walk through ten inches of snow barefoot or go from house to house asking for bread.  Just the kind of poor that would keep his father one step ahead of the rent collector. His parents provided the best they could, but, by…

  patrickjegan

  December 11, 2014

  Blogging, Everyday Events, Family, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  Christmas memory, Christmas story, coal in the stocking, coal mining, coal stove, cold, father, father’s childhood, footsteps in snow, grandfather, grandfather’s farm, grandmother, holidays, owego ny, poverty in northeast Pennsylvania, winter