I have long been working on a book of lyrics about my wife's family in the Boone area of North Carolina. They are the stories of the strong, patriarchal society in the form of colorful anecdotes that were told or whispered to me through many years of active listening to the last of this great generation who, within memory, lived and transmitted the old time ways. I attempt to show them as fully developed characters rendering both their virtues and their faults. Let me know with emails which characters you want to learn more about, and I will include more poems about them.
David King Chesapeake, Virginia Nov. 4, 2007
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