Wildflowers and Train Whistles

Sissy Crone a coal camp kid brings to life the faded past of her hometown Minden West Virginia through a collection of stories told firsthand of heartache and loss balanced by glorious triumphs. Sissy brings us along as a companion through her early years in a childhood that could never exist in a modern world. Wildflowers and Train Whistles is a book about an ordinary family that survives extraordinary challenges as a coal camp family living in hardscrabble times of the 1950s. She and her six siblings color a dark damp coal camp town with humorous antics and daring adventures to bring excitement to the hills near the New River Gorge.