Bøker av James Dumas

Tennessee Stories give a true life picture of ordinary, down to earth individuals whose good deeds are not likely to make the cover of TIME magazine. But their very presence speaks the same gutsy tongue as the sturfy pioneers who carved Tennessee from the wilderness. Many of the short stories are revisions of feature profiles written by the Author in years past as a reporter or publisher of rural newspapers. Othere were written in recent months in order to afford geographic balance between East and West Tennessee. Tennessee Stories presents factual short story biographies about everyday personalities from varied walks of life. There's the brilliant preacher in Middle Tennessee whose talent to build will impress congregations for years to come. There are Tennessee moonshiners - one retired and pne practicing. The is the story of "MonCat" who effected one of the state's largest independent telephone systems from scratch. Audacity compliments two fiery mountaineers in East Tennes