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Country Trails and Tales is an easy read which offers the reader temporary escape from the anxieties of today's stressful world. Bits of history and humor are sprinkled into nostalgic tales creating a yearning for the reader to return to a simpler more treasured time. While reading one might find their heart's desire is to return to a time when water melons cooled in the edge of the creek's chilly waters as joyful children worked up an appetite while swimming. Memories of the sands cool grit between barefoot toes might summon back recollections of children walking along country roads in...

Captain William Barkers ship, the Merchants Hope left Gravesend, England in July 1635. As the wind carried the ship the passengers hopes were cast to the wind as well. England grew distant in the background, as families left memories of a lifetime behind. Richard Fanshawe, a 22 year old traveler was on board. Using Richard as a link, the author details an English familys migration to Virginia. Transcription errors allowed the family to remain hidden in the archives, until recent discoveries brought their identity to light. They traveled from England to Virginia, New England, Tennessee, and...

Master Fancher's Light unto Our Path, is a story of tragedy and triumph, as an English boy faces his father's death at the tender age of six. Unable to provide for himself, he spends time in houses of refuge until signing as a servant to a master in the Colony of Virginia. After his servitude, he returns to England where he learns the craft of weaving, before returning to Virginia as a landowner. Triumphs and tragedies continue as he and his wife sell their land and go meandering throughout New England. There they resort to a transient lifestyle highlighted by years of hardships and...