Chit Chat-Stories Told Around the Hearth is a collection of 42 stories and tales of life experiences. Many I heard as a boy sitting around listening to the grown ups talk while others are simply life situations about the everyday situations we all experience.
A nostalgic and inspirational book of memories from Green River Township. Author Robert Ballard likens life as the flow of a river. He shares favorite boyhood fishing stories, some hardships along the river of life and some other personal interest stories about life including the auto-immune disease which have afflicted both he and his son. A short read containing aspects of local heritage.
Chit Chat-Stories Told Around the Hearth is a collection of 42 stories and tales of life experiences. Many I heard as a boy sitting around listening to the grown ups talk while others are simply life situations about the everyday situations we all experience.
Family genealogy is something that recently became an interest for me. I knew very about our family roots and when I made a visit to our local genealogy society to research my Grandmother Ballard's family, Maybelle Thompson Ballard, the volunteers working were able to help me find information and steer me into other avenues of research. My findings are included in this book as are the genealogy of my wife, the Maybins. It would be a monumental task to include a complete genealogical overview in a book of this nature so I have only limited my findings to those of my immediate family. As a writer of short stories pertaining to my own life experiences I am including some of my writings.
Hi, Thanks for reading this description of my latest book. I am Robert E. Ballard from Zirconia, North Carolina and live with my wife, Jane and son Gary in the Green River community of Henderson County. Retiring in 2003 from General Electric Outdoor Lighting after almost 30 years of service I discovered that I liked to write and joined an on-line writing site called hub pages. The articles contained in Living the Good Life-Part I are all short stories which I wrote on my site and cover a broad range of topics. We all have memories created over the span of our life. In this volume I share many of those memories. I grew up in a small rural mountain community in Western North Carolina called Tuxedo, a cotton mill village.The stories in this book are written to record and to share those memories that warmed my heart, made me smile, and sometimes invoked personal reflection. My writing style is simple, down to earth with the wisdom one might expect of ordinary folk. In writing these articles it has been my goal to not only share these stories but to preserve these simple life experiences that some may have forgotten or taken for granted. ll village, my military years, inspirational thoughts, and tales told to me. Readers will experience the thoughts and emotions conveyed in a simple narrative. My stories are a collection which I have written over time and published on a writers blog where other writers read and give feedback on the subject matter and and content. The articles in this book all received high marks from my fellow writers.
My Tuxedo No Longer Fits is a collection of stories from life experiences of one that grew up in a small rural textile village in Western North Carolina. Some are serious themes while others are stories revolving around the authors life experiences during the days of his boyhood and teenage years. Told in a simple narrative, these are memories engrained and meant to be shared with others who might find them similar to their own experiences. An honest effort to capture the essence of a bygone day. Simple humor tied to a reflective imagination make this an enjoyable reading adventure.
This is a book of stories and tales from the Green River/Tuxedo area of Henderson County in Western North Carolina. Included is a collection of my memories which are being shared from a heart filled with love and thanksgiving to those who created them. In these pages you will find humor, tragedy and sadness and the full gamut of emotions of myself and the people who have been such an integral part of the influence of my life.
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