Sarah's Story

Come back to the year 1967 and relive the life of a Tennessee mountain woman: Sarah Douglas Blankenship. Genealogy and history buffs alike will find Sarah's Story enthralling. Sarah, born in 1898, overcomes incredible struggles and forms a special bond with her surroundings—most especially the mountains. Walk with Sarah through her pivotal life events as she experiences: living with a coal miner in a coal camp. her daughter working at Oak Ridge during WWII. her village nearly burning down. the grief and shock of her husband being sentenced to Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary for shooting a man. Sarah deals with the loneliness from the death of her husband and children, but shows readers how they can get up out of bed every day and see the beauty in everyday life.