Down on the North Fork: A Novel of the Virginia Hills (North Fork Series)

By Richard A. Counts

When Reuben Taylor came home to the hills of Southwest Virginia after fighting in the Great War, he settled down with his wife Louise and baby daughter Shirley on a farm at the foot of Clinch Mountain, and ran the local newspaper with his good buddy Raymond. But more adventures awaited them as America entered the tumultuous decades of the 1920's and 1930's. Reuben has to fight racism and intolerance in his hometown and corruption and temptation in the big city when he runs for the state House. Louise dares to do something that no woman in Jefferson County has ever done before. Shirley grows from a little girl to a young woman along with her friends Annie, Ruby, and Tommy Kestner, even as the shadow of the Second World War begins to loom over them. Change is all around, but will the Taylor family make it through the Roaring 20's and the Great Depression and realize their dreams? Richard A. Counts is an attorney in Hazard, Kentucky and grew up in Abingdon, Virginia. He has always been interested in the history of Appalachia and was able to draw on a lot of family stories and traditions in the writing of this novel. He hopes that this book will illustrate some of the challenges our ancestors went through and show that in some ways their times were not all that different from our own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1090455682
• ISBN13: 9781090455680
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"