environmental factors

J.W. Bradley

Community Members, People, Theme: Organizing, Theme: Organizing - People / By

Jacob “J.W.” Bradley was born on 29 June 1930 and raised in Petros, Tenn., a small Appalachian coalfield community in the Cumberland Mountains. J.W. married Emma “Kate” Hobbs in 1951. As an adult, J.W. worked several jobs. At eighteen he got a job working as a coal miner at Rosedale, Tenn. Later J.W. became an …

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Diane Lauver

People, Student Health Coalition Participants, Theme: Expanding Practice, Theme: Expanding Practice - People, Theme: Health Care, Theme: Health Care - People, Themes / By

Contributed by Diane Lauver, February 2018 Growing up, I was close to my paternal grandparents; they lived in a pastoral valley looking at Appalachian hills in a northern state. With their 8th grade educations and practical wisdom, they taught me how to garden and “put up” its produce. My maternal grandparents worked for a travel …

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