Front Porch Talk is another lively, heart-warming collection of hilarious autobiographical boyhood tales told by the masterful storyteller John E. Jordan, Jr. These stories of a boy growing up in the southern coalfields of West Virginia in the 1950s are not only highly entertaining but also draw the reader into that bucolic world -not without its difficulties - and simpler time. A time of gardening, farming, floods, canning, hunting, industrial change, fishing, family visits, Sunday church, funeral wakes, quilting - and when fried chicken and bacon were good for you. We step into the world of...
Front Porch Talk is another lively, heart-warming collection of hilarious autobiographical boyhood tales told by the masterful storyteller John E. Jor...
On Angel Wings, a continuation of the heart-warming Front Porch Talk, takes the reader back to the West Virginian coal country of the 1950s and 60s. In rich detail, masterful storyteller John E. Jordan, Jr. leads us into a world of tall tales, two-room schoolhouses, bootlegging, "company towns," harsh winters, and spring floods. In his own words, he explains that the collection of stories is meant as "a local history of the Big Coal River area and of West Virginia in the 1950s and 1960s," and readers are encouraged to "enjoy the reflections viewed through the eyes of a child growing up in...
On Angel Wings, a continuation of the heart-warming Front Porch Talk, takes the reader back to the West Virginian coal country of the 1950s and 60s. I...
