Next O&W Train from Tennessee

By Jr Holbrook

Next O&W Train from Tennessee opens as a quick dream from a man who works in a funeral home. Understanding this dream is where the book is outlined, as change, a higher being, as well as a force or nature is mentioned. A man, Tinker Baity, has died from the elements and taken to the funeral home. The man's family come to view Tinker. The funeral parlor is described in detail, and as the family leave, the true story begins in a much different time than of today. One of Tinker Baity's family members, a young girl named Armelda Moody, meets up with a Mr. Granville Wright. They become married, and have children. The Wright Family leave their home in Tennessee, and travel to Indiana. The book tells the story of the Wright children, and some of the things that they see take place in their lives. This is not only their story; but it is part of an American story from a time of horse and wagon to seeing man land on the moon. This is what the Wright family saw in this special time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469188041

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Copyright © 2012 by JR HOLBROOK.

Library of Congress Control Number:                2012905323

ISBN:               Hardcover                   978-1-4691-8803-4

                         Softcover                     978-1-4691-8802-7

                         Ebook                         978-1-4691-8804-1

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or

are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Tinker Baity

Going to Town

Meeting Mr. Wright

Their Children

Knowing When to Move

The Train Station

School

Around the Time of Development of Air Travel

Country Folk through

and through

The Bedans

Family

Clara Reads Zane Grey

Cora Collects Coins

Men of Mortality

Profound Moments

Brown vs. the Board of

Education in 347 US 483

Moon

On the Moon

Life

From the author of Making Sense from the Guy on the Edge

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Next O&W Train from Tennessee

Sarah Nichter (author and English professor at Sullivan University)—Next O&W Train from Tennessee is an exquisite promising new book of historical fiction with some very funny parts in it.

Next O&W Train from Tennessee

Donna Peerce (author of thirty-seven best-selling books)—I loved it.

Making Sense from the Guy on the Edge

Blue Ink Reviews—Startling revelations and heartfelt.

For my mother Shirley Ann Bedan Holbrook and everything that she ever did for me in life.

Four children with dark brown hair sat in plain wooden chairs in a large empty room on a hardwood floor. They sat in a circle in the middle of the room. One child who looked very much like the other children said, Tick, tick, tick, tick. Another child who appeared to be any other child said, How much longer do we have to be here? Still another child, like all of the rest, cried out, Ten minutes. As the tick of the second hand of a clock could be heard as it moved, tick, a larger-than-life tall man moved into the room very slowly; his breath could be seen as he came into the room with a fog of mist, and he moved his hands together and whispered, It’s cold. On the opposite side of a rather large and empty room, a stout woman entered through a door without saying a single word. A sewing needle that she held lightly in her hands gently fell from her hands; it turned over and over with a whirl and fell to the ground on a hardwood floor and made a ping, ping and a somewhat softer and slower ping as it came to rest in this empty room. At that moment, a calendar appeared and everything was in focus and in place; the time was 1899 and the place was Tennessee.

When a time and season of change comes into an area, for instance, Jamestown, Tennessee, as much as any other place in America, it is like a lamp being turned on, showing the lamp’s hues and its way to make the shadows of darkness brighter. One thing about change is that it’s always there, and in order to see it, just look around, and it may be found.

A belief in a higher being is essential to life and living. Acknowledging that is a way to have peace and thanksgiving when these actions need to be shown. It is also a way to have contentment when very little can be found—something on our side, when most things do not seem to be on our side.

Then, nature is a twist of fate. From time-to-time leaving its massive force shown to humans in a way to know what can be controlled and what cannot