@book{183, keywords = {Pennsylvania Railroad, Scots-Irish Americans, Presbyterians, immigrants, judges, Irish Americans, farms, Scottish Americans, coal industry}, author = {Agnes Sligh Turnbull}, title = {The Rolling Years}, abstract = {A saga of three generations of Scottish-American Presbyterians. After the Civil War, Daniel and Sarah McDowell, the first generation, beget 12 children. Daniel is a dour Calvinistic husband; Sarah is bitter about her repeated pregnancies. Their son David moves to Pittsburgh, where he becomes a judge. Daughter Jeannie marries a local schoolteacher. Her daughter Connie is the protagonist of the book's third section and she too remains in the Westmoreland County Scottish Presbyterian community. The novel dramatizes change in Western Pennsylvania: how the strict Calvinism of the Scottish immigrants weakens; the shifting roles of wives and husbands; and how industrial development shrinks the land and rural life.}, year = {1936}, pages = {436 p.}, publisher = {The Macmillan Company}, address = {New York}, note = {
Union Station is referred to as Penn Station, as it is often known. Greensburg-Salem Middle School is referred to as Greensburg High School, as it was then known.
}, language = {English}, }