Mud Between Our Toes: A Collection of Verses and Vignettes

By Jack Straley

A collection of faith based poems and short stories about life in rural central Texas in the fifties

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467036450

Jack Straley

Jack Straley was born in Lampasas County Texas in 1946 and grew up in the small rural farming community of Adamsville. Adamsville, the First Baptist Church, the three room frame schoolhouse and farm life created the atmosphere all these memories and stories came from. The Christian principles taught by strong parents are the basis of the Christian faith his poems are based on. Mr. Straley now resides in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and two of their thirteen grandchildren . From the times remembered in the story, “New Cars” to today, he is still working in the automobile business.

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