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WILKES-BARRE: Nanticoke native Gene Gomolka, author of “Coal Cracker’s Son,” will sign his book from noon to 2 p.m. today at Barnes & Noble bookstore on South Main Street.
Gomolka, an award-winning sportswriter while at The Delaware County Daily Times, will also have book signings during the Nanticoke Coal Miner’s Festival Friday to Sunday on Patriot Square in Nanticoke.
“Coal Cracker’s Son,” Gomolka’s first novel, is about Polish immigrants who arrive in America at the turn of the century, the coal mine industry in Northeast Pennsylvania, the Great Depression and World War II.
The author, a former newspaper carrier for The Times Leader in Nanticoke’s Lower Broadway section, currently resides in West Chester.