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Who should determine the course of health care, patients and physicians or committees of administrators? Wattsville, a Novel by Juneus Kendall, M.D. tells the story of medical care in a small community whose dedicated doctor loses control of his practice when the coal mine operators agree to fund a health-care system controlled by the union administration. This novel portrays the personal stories of the village inhabitants, the hardships of their lives, the peculiar culture prevalent in the Appalachians of their time and the effect of imposed changes. Freedom is not the same to all people but...

Though this is a work of fiction there is authenticity lurking in the narrative. Some of the events may remind you of your past or that of someone you have known. These stories depict growth in the characters' lives and to a great extent improvement. While they are set in what could have been one lifetime, they touch on more than that.

During the Great Depression, Union Carbide constructed a tunnel on the New River in WV. In the process an unknown number of men died. Because they were mostly poor, itinerant, Negroes without advocates, their plight was largely ignored. No one knows how many died and the government was of little help. There were a few whose lives rose above their circumstances. This is the story of one of those couples.

THE FERRYMAN is a classically written story of a German Mennonite family in Siberia during the last years of the rule of Czar Nicholas and the People's Revolution. As the Bolsheviks (later called Communists) gained power these wealthy Mennonite wheat farmers had all their property confiscated and their families uprooted and scattered. The protagonist, Heinrich Gerhard, had just graduated from the University of St. Petersburg when he renounced his religion for Bolshevism. His journey through the changing politics, the war, and finally his search for personal freedom provides the narrative for...