I'm using my blog as a bit of a scrap book to remember all the wonderful things happening around A BIRD ON WATER STREET, so pardon these...

    "Gr 5-8–The men in Jack’s family have always worked the mines. The 13-year-old has already lost his grandfather and his uncle to ca...

Monday evening was the last event for my "Southern Appalachian Book Tour" celebrating the release of A BIRD ON WATER STREET at th...

I was just interviewed about A BIRD ON WATER STREET on the Bill & Joel Show on WDUN radio out of Gainesville, Georgia this morning - f...

     One of the magical things about the area where A BIRD ON WATER STREET takes place is the music. In the book I talk about music Frid...

Saturday's Copperhill event for A BIRD ON WATER STREET turned out to be a very wet affair, but that didn't stop the celebration! Pl...

Well, Saturday was supposed to be the biggest event for A BIRD ON WATER STREET... until the rain came.       In expectation of a large crow...

We've still got more for the Southern Appalachian Book Tour for A BIRD ON WATER STREET . Today's stop is at Darcy Pattison's, Fi...

On Friday, after lunch, Stan and I drove back through the Ocoee River Gorge towards the new East Polk County Library in Ducktown, Tennessee ...

A BIRD ON WATER STREET takes place in Copperhill, Tennessee (called "Coppertown" in the book), in Polk County. So it's been e...

I am so lucky to have such amazingly talented friends. And I'm happy to say that when I met Susan Nees , I knew her success was just ar...