Stories are the stuff of life -- they entertain us, inspire us, teach us, and shape us. This is a book of stories and we think they're good ones Delmer Chilton writes the way he speaks, in the Appalachian drawl that has mesmerized generations of mountain children and their elders. To say that his voice is unique does not do it justice. You have to sit for a spell and listen, and -- when you do -- you come away knowing that you just got to know a little bit of Delmer and that you have somehow been moved to laughter, or tears, or just to a pleasant sort of musing. The subtitle for the book is...

There are times in life when a game is more than a game; 42-0 tells the story of a time when that became true, not only for a group of young men who gathered to play football, but for two entire towns and the better part of a state. In 1967, a year after racial integration had begun in rural Tennessee, Coach Jim Graves assembled his group of players (white and black) and began an extraordinary journey that lasted for four seasons. Winning games "one at a time" (as almost all coaches will tell you is the only way you can), Coach Graves' Panther football team in Martin, Tennessee put up a...