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Almost Heaven

Almost Heaven

Kirkpatrick, Thomas N.

Hardcover

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798893895087
Publisher: Arpress
Published: Nov 21 2024
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Almost Heaven was originally titled Ballengee. I wrote during the early 80s while driving an eighteen-wheeler across the fruited plain of America and Canada. The characters of Almost Heaven are based on my memories of folks I knew while spending time with my summer parents on the farm in Ballengee, West Virginia. My Summer parents were named Lester and Fonda Lively. Ballengee was a farming and dairy country filled with unique folks. I started going there in 1954 and continued each summer until 1965. I always thought fiction was born of truth, and I filled Ballengee with fictitious characters from impressions of the folks I met there. The storyteller of the work never revealed his name, but if he had, it would have been Ragamuffin. It was a name given to me by Lester when asked who the little boy was hanging around him in the summer. Lester said, Why, he is my Ragamuffin. Ballengee is a real place, and I turned it into a small town filled with interesting folks who made it Almost Heaven.

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