- SKU: 9781612964676
- BARCODE: 9781612964676
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Pleasant Valley Lost - Paperback
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Description
by Joseph J. Swope (Author)
Maxy Awards Winner - Best Nonfiction
The government took the land. But it couldn't erase what was built there.
In the late 1960s, Joseph J. Swope's family farm-worked for generations in one of Pennsylvania's most fertile valleys-was condemned to make way for the Blue Marsh Dam. What followed was not just the loss of property, but the dismantling of a way of life.
In Pleasant Valley Lost, Swope recounts the final years of the farm his family called home, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moved forward with a project that would ultimately submerge an entire community.
Told with clarity and conviction, this memoir captures the emotional toll of displacement-the uncertainty, the resistance, and the quiet resilience required to move forward when everything familiar is taken away.
More than a personal story, it is a record of a vanished place and a reminder of the human cost behind progress.
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