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<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cOlive Hill, Kentucky has a surprising creation story,\u201d\u00a0says author Willie Davis.\u00a0\u201cHundreds of thousands of Kentucky\u2019s sons and daughters migrated to the industrial north in the 1940\u2019s and 50s without realizing how their past had helped build America. My family was among them. I became determined to tell Olive Hill\u2019s storied past.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOlive Hill\u201d is written in two volumes. It follows the fictitious Reed family from May, 1800 to June, 1959. The two volumes integrate 339 fictional characters into 159 years of American history to tell how Olive Hill gave all that it had in a time it was most needed until a time it was needed no more.<\/p>\n
Carter County, Kentucky was blessed with an abundance of diverse natural resources, including timber, iron ore, coal, and limestone. During the Industrial Revolution one of its towns, Olive Hill, became the center of a 600 square mile hotbed of fireclay, a unique heat-resistant clay used to make firebricks. For decades, thousands of hard-working Olive Hillians dug, moulded, and fired that uncommon clay into hundreds of thousands of firebricks per day to line open hearth steel furnaces, locomotive fireboxes, and steamship boilers.<\/p>\n
Without the steel, there would be no skyscrapers and no rail lines. Without the trains and ships, there would be no movement to expedite a growing nation. Olive Hill firebricks helped make this possible.<\/p>\n
Davis dedicates the novel to anyone interested in Olive Hill, Kentucky \u2013 yesterday, today, or tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore people need to know the Olive Hill story,\u201d\u00a0continues Davis.\u00a0\u201cAnd more people need to know more American history.\u201d<\/p>\n
For further information and autographed copies contact Willie Davis at willied@neo.rr.com<\/a>\u00a0or visit his website at: http:\/\/williedavisbooks.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Books are available online everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MANSFIELD, Ohio, Feb. 12, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Author Willie Davis has written a historical fiction novel, “Olive Hill” (ISBN 978-1728369372; Volume 1) about how one small Appalachian town in Kentucky can lay claim to helping build America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8827,"featured_media":68437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,12804,1,37,20,559],"tags":[15377,14288],"class_list":["post-68471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-publishing-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-entertainment-news","category-ohio-news","category-products-news","tag-historical-fiction","tag-historical-novel","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4697,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}