Journey Home

By Shirley D. Jones

Journey Home is a series of poems reflecting farm life in the 1950-60's before many practices vanished with technological changes. Having a keen eye for detail, the author describes the typical layout of a farm as well as the chores and customs of the era. As you cherish the unforgettable characters, you will experience universal feelings of joy, sadness, hope, and humor. The love of family, farm animals and the, land is central and captured in the various topics. Revisiting the farm is a trip into nostalgia when the farm produced most of family's food and neighbors depended upon each other for hog-killing, quilting, fires and' sickness. Several vintage photos enhance the book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456766160

Shirley D. Jones

The author is a graduate of East Carolina University and retired from the Department of Health and Human Services of North Carolina. She has been writing poetry since the first grade in Roxboro, NC. Many of her inspirations come from growing up on a tobacco farm in Person County. Now living in Laurinburg, NC, she’s a member of the NC Poetry Society. She has received honorable mention from the Fields of Earth Symposium of the Writers’s Ink Guild of Fayetteville. She wrote, The Rocking Chair, a column published in The Lumberton Post in 1977-78. She was published in the Phoenix, a literary magazine of Scotland High School, and in Leaves of Green: The Collard Poems sponsored by the Ayden Collard Festival. Her poems were included in Summer Carpenters, a poetry booklet compiled from a creative writing class taught by Ron Bayes and Grace Gibson, at Pembroke University. She is the author of A Charge to Keep: The History of Caledonia United Methodist Church, which was awarded Special Recognition in the History Book Award by the North Carolina Society of Historians. One of her poems has recently been published in Gravity Hill, a literary magazine of St. Andrews College. She is the proud mother of two grown sons and one grandson. She has a coon hound dog and two cats. When she is not writing, she enjoys photography, reading, traveling and crafts.

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© 2011 Shirley D. Jones. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 6/16/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4567-6615-3 (dj)

ISBN: 978-1-4567-6616-0 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4567-6617-7 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011908018

Printed in the United States of America

The poem, Of Ghosts and Such was first published in Volume VI, 2010 of GRAVITY HILL, literary magazine, of St. Andrews College Press, Laurinburg, NC

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This book is dedicated to the

Three Betty’s in my life:

In memory of

Betty Brooks Daniel,

My beloved sister,

Who shared these memories,

In honor of my friends,

Bette C. Burgess,

Fellow poet and writer

Who encouraged me,

And

Betty Briggs Schledorn,

Who grew up in the next

County and became my

College room-mate

Table of Contents

The Farm

The Old House

Unlucky Fourth

A Tale of Two Trees

Apple Orchard

Flowers on the Farm

Cats in Flowers

Foggy and Sure

The Necessary House

Granny’s Two-Seater

For Ladies Only

Cool Water

Adding On

Of Ghosts and Such

Family Heroine

Autumn on the Farm

Hurricane Hazel

Catching the Bus

Central School

The Playground

My First Two Poems

Davis Eyes

Daddy

Vera

Shorty

Revival

Brunswick Stew

Bessie and Bennie

Fried Apple Pies

Jam, Jelly, and Preserves

Canning and Freezing

Mason Jars

Aprons

Quilting

Embroidery and Crocheting

The Singer Sewing Machine

Tractors

The Fields

The Homestead

The Grapevine

The Smokehouse

The Hen House

The Red Tobacco Barn

The Little Green Barn

The Pack House

The Stripping Room

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