Coal Dust and Ice Cream: Lykens Valley 1903-1922 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798332070754)

Take this book into your hands.
Take these children into your heart.

When their mother dies, eight children are scattered across coal country. Children went to work. They did hard jobs, worked long hours, for less pay, and lost not only limbs but lives in the machinery of the industrial age.

It was a time before child labor laws or workplace safety rules existed. They trudged on and found happiness in life's little pleasures like picnics and ice cream.