We as a people of a proud and historic nation watched our economy become badly fractured from 2001 through 2009. The lust for big power and wealth has caused some leaders in government, business, and religion to demonstrate greater ambition in achieving their own personal success than the success and prosperity of the very people they are responsible for leading and protecting. Our political system has lost the ability and desire to have bi-partisan teamwork in making the quality of life better for everyone, as well as future generations. My goal is for us to seek and find solutions to problems, not just whine and gripe among ourselves for self-gain. I am a small town boy from Kentucky who was fortunate enough to attend college on a basketball scholarship, and my college education might not have even been possible without athletics. Three years as a young Marine Corps Officer gave me an opportunity to see life from another vantage point. Forty years as an Executive in the Automotive Industry, an opportunity to live in eleven different states and one territory, and raising family of five gave me additional perspectives on life. This book has been born from the memories and actual experiences I have enjoyed from relationships and friendships with many interesting personalities, from Baseball Great Roberto Clemente to former Governor George Nigh of Oklahoma, along with many top executives in industry. I have seen the Good, the Bad, and even the "Ugly" of life. Fortunately I have seen so many good and kind people that the bad and the ugly have been overcome. I hope you enjoy reading "Have We Lost Our Common Sense?" as much as I have enjoyed writing it.
A collection of stories guaranteed to make you laughb??some true, some suspect, some old, some newb??written by a mountain humorist who knows how tospin a yarn.
Six true adventure stories told by master writer Bob Terrell. What drove Bob Faygn Runion to kill his father, his brother and himself one dark night in 1938 at his parent's Wolf Creek home neat the North Carolina-Tennessee line? A priest's harrowing World War II escape from the German POW camp at St. Denis, France. A motorist was rescued after plunging into the icy Nantahala River one fateful night. A Jewish student disguised himself as a Palestinian to live with and study a West Bank culture who lived underground, literally. Two couriers who rode with Custer and the 7th Cavalry into the annihilation at the Battle of the Rosebud survived, this is the story of how by a twist of fate and a fast horse, one of those men escaped with his life. A woman saw the world and sailed the seven seas as third mate, "unlimited tonnage, any ocean, any vessel.
The fantastic story of Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice and the football team that put North Carolina in the big-time. The most comprehensive book ever about a sports legend and the teams he played on.
Asheville was preparing for its third snowstorm of the season on November 13, 1906, when a Charlotte outlaw shot and killed five men including two policemen. The murder spree took place on Pack Square and involved several other citizens in the gunfire. Asheville's most infamous night resulted in a thousand-man posse searching every corner of the county and eventually running down the killer in a laurel thicket and shooting him more than a hundred times. This is the true story of that infamous night.
Asheville, North Carolina was once a frontier town as tough as Tombstone or Dodge City. It had Indian fights, scalpings, shootouts, street brawls, hangings, cattle drives, wagon trains, saloons, and brothels.
In the remote Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, the sheriff of Jackson County, way back around 1917, had just two words when someone was needed to restore law and order - "get Rufus " - and Rufus would come a ridin' into Sylva, the county seat, on his female mule, Fred, and then the fur would fly and the bad guys get their comeuppance. "A delight, dishing up charm, adventure, and a delightful mountain flavor, all at the same time. Bob Terrell knows his way around a story - and there's a female mule named Fred that you're going to lose your heart to." - Mike Resnick
The fantastic story of Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice and the football team that put North Carolina in the big-time. The m ost comprehensive book ever about a sports legend and the teams he played on.
Great interviews of Thomas Wolfe's pal Robert Bunn, Perry Como, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Wilma Dykeman, E.Y. Ponder, Harry Blomberg, Farmer Russ, the Biltmore House's William A.V. Cecil, and other residents of and visitors to Asheville, North Carolina. Writers include Bob Terrell and Ralph Roberts.
The inspiring true story of a convict who came out of one of the worst prisons in the South during the 1930s to become one of the South's great preachers.
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