@book{bibcite_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{\textquoteright}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}, }