TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - physicians KW - Italian Americans KW - trade unions KW - Polish Americans KW - Ukrainian Americans KW - high school students KW - farms KW - United Mine Workers KW - priests KW - firefighters KW - construction industry KW - coal industry AU - Jennifer Haigh AB - A collection of 11 interconnected short stories about the Western Pennsylvania citizens of Bakerton, a fiction coal-mining town buffeted by decades of change. Bakerton is inspired by the writer's hometown of Barnesboro, Cambria County. C1 - 1940s-2000s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Moon Twp.; Pittsburgh International Airport; Jefferson County; Punxsutawney C4 - Literary CY - New York LA - English M3 - Short Stories N2 - A collection of 11 interconnected short stories about the Western Pennsylvania citizens of Bakerton, a fiction coal-mining town buffeted by decades of change. Bakerton is inspired by the writer's hometown of Barnesboro, Cambria County. PB - Harper Perennial PP - New York PY - 2013 RN - Jennifer Wasilko Haigh (1968— ) was born to a Ukrainian Catholic family in Cambria County. She earned a BA at Dickinson College and an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. EP - 244 p. TI - News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories ER -