Having grown up in a cotton mill community my life was impacted and influenced in a wonderful way by the people in our village. Our little village was named Tuxedo and my parents were cotton mill workers. During the mid 1950's after a Union strike our lives begin to change in many ways for the better. In this book I will share some stories of our community and my own personal stories of the people and places that remain dear to me.
Having grown up in a cotton mill community my life was impacted and influenced in a wonderful way by the people in our village. Our little village was...
Hi, Thanks for reading this description of my latest book. I am Robert E. Ballard from Zirconia, North Carolina and live with my wife, Jane and son Gary in the Green River community of Henderson County. Retiring in 2003 from General Electric Outdoor Lighting after almost 30 years of service I discovered that I liked to write and joined an on-line writing site called hub pages. The articles contained in Living the Good Life-Part I are all short stories which I wrote on my site and cover a broad range of topics. We all have memories created over the span of our life. In this volume I share many...
Hi, Thanks for reading this description of my latest book. I am Robert E. Ballard from Zirconia, North Carolina and live with my wife, Jane and son Ga...
Family genealogy is something that recently became an interest for me. I knew very about our family roots and when I made a visit to our local genealogy society to research my Grandmother Ballard's family, Maybelle Thompson Ballard, the volunteers working were able to help me find information and steer me into other avenues of research. My findings are included in this book as are the genealogy of my wife, the Maybins. It would be a monumental task to include a complete genealogical overview in a book of this nature so I have only limited my findings to those of my immediate family. As a...
Family genealogy is something that recently became an interest for me. I knew very about our family roots and when I made a visit to our local genealo...
We all have stories we remember from our youth we heard listening to the grown ups talk. Within this book I have recorded some of those stories and tales along with some life experiences others will resonate. It is by writing them down we live over again the times these were created. For the nostalgic, words and thoughts of family times sitting around a fireplace and listening to stories that sometimes made it hard to go to sleep seem so vivid.
We all have stories we remember from our youth we heard listening to the grown ups talk. Within this book I have recorded some of those stories and ta...
