In the mountains of East Tennessee, a young man comes of age in the closing months of the Civil War. He struggles with his desire for materialism versus his desire for the blessings and comforts of home and hearth. Unusual circumstances compel him to join the Union army. When the war ends and he returns to his mountain home, everything has changed; and he struggles to find his way in a changed world. Charles served in the United States Air Force where he developed a love of freedom and country, which is just as strong today as ever. He is a graduate of East Tennessee State University with a...
In the mountains of East Tennessee, a young man comes of age in the closing months of the Civil War. He struggles with his desire for materialism vers...
Having never known or been told about his father, Thomas struggles to learn how to become a man in the uncertain and tentative years of the Reconstruction following the Civil War. His mother and grandmother show only marginal interest in training up a child. His instruction is taken up by others in his family, especially his paternal grandfather, Papaw Wes, a good and devout man who adores him. Thomas is bright, having excelled at the Maxwell Academy, polite, hard-working and honest, and he seems to do all the right things. Once thrilled at the gift of a Bible of his very own, he continues to...
Having never known or been told about his father, Thomas struggles to learn how to become a man in the uncertain and tentative years of the Reconstruc...
He was a boy with a sense of adventure, interested in traversing the boundaries of his Appalachian community of Cane Valley and beyond. However, for Zachary "Zack" Stewart, what drove his excitement most was a love of boats and the desire to become a sailor for the Great White Fleet, the United States Navy. In These Mountains Are My Home, a coming-of-age, historical novel by author Charles B. Shanks Jr., Zack is a young man prompted by the Great Depression and his supportive family to achieve his dreams, which serves him well as he embarks on a naval career. The future becomes brighter when...
He was a boy with a sense of adventure, interested in traversing the boundaries of his Appalachian community of Cane Valley and beyond. However, for Z...
