A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Annetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 (Dear America Series)

Gr 4-8 - A lively and persuasive observation of the lives of immigrant coal miners and their families in the state of Pennsylvania at the turn of the last century. Anekuta is a resource-rich Polish girl whose father ordered to come to America and marry a man who never saw before. At the age of 14, she became a minister's wife and stepmother of three young girls. The difficulties and dangers of life at the mining camp recorded in the diary are balanced with Annetoka's life's kindness, friendship and romance. The details of beekeeping and endless housekeeping will win the respect of readers for housewives 100 years ago. Polish words, maps, music, obsolete pictures, the main vocabulary of the recipe add substances to the environment. Recording "postscript" of that person's life after the story is over may confuse children, especially because history that explains the character 's fiction continues. Nevertheless, Bartolletti draws an exciting picture near the harsh period. -Valerie Diamond, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information

Bartoletti added a subtle story to the dear American collection of a 14 year old diary in Sadkhka, Poland in 1866. Annika lives with her beloved grandmother and brother; her mother is dead, her father went to Pennsylvania to work at an anthracite mine. She likes her whereabouts, but all these changes when her father says she will become his bride's colleague in the future. Annetoka is a young man named Leon who took her and her brother out of the country. As we discovered that her new husband was a waffle with three children, Annetka's diary kept working through the rework of the coal miners' wives. There is clear pleasure in washing, cooking, breadmaking, manufacturing process fight in Lattimer Pennsylvania, manufacturing aneka beekeeping, essential oil production, and pleasure to urge three little children to love her. In addition to attacking dirty dangerous landmines, Leon et al asked workers to strike to invite the embarrassment of those who call them a foreigner to make them worse. The story reached a climax with Latimer massacre on September 10, 1897, where unarmed workers were dismissed and at least 19 people died. The whole process is filled with the spirit of Annetka, she actively watches her amazing English metaphor like that language to capture Polish, which is her mother tongue, such as "place your feet on the floor" I will make use of it. (Vocabulary, history photograph, map, recipe) (History novels 9-14)

The "Dear America" ​​series has entered the HBO as a new series. The series represents an important era in the history seen by young girls. This book is written in the form of a diary. Anetka Kaminska is a Polish girl, 14 years old this year. In 1896, Anetoka's father arranged to the man to marry her in the new world if he pays a toll to her. Annetoca explained the fear and anxiety experienced by immigrants through health examination and interrogation to see if her travel to the New World and whether they will "leave the correct Americans" (58). She became a coal miner's wife and stepmother of three young girls. Her new husband does not love her. My husband passed away in a mining accident several months after he got married. She was left on the border and tried to take care of her three little daughters. Annetoka must deal with racial discrimination in America. Anetka finally met her true love, Leon Nasevich is a trade union organizer

Lattimer Massacre: A group of Luzerne County Sheriffs killed 19 non-armed striker coal miners and miners in the vicinity of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, 36 people were injured and refused to dissolve. Most strikers were struck behind, they were originally run as strikers, but they were organized later. The "Elder Devon Act" was passed, regulation of railway and voluntary arbitration were stipulated. It is a criminal offense that a railroad company dismisses its employees or discriminates against potential employees for labor union unions or activities. It provides legal protection against the rights of employees who join trade unions, limits the use of injunctions in labor disputes, the legal status of picket and other trade union activities, and demands employers to collective bargaining .