The tale begins with author and his father journeying from their home in a white Mercury to a largely fictional land beyond Maysville, Kentucky, where both father and son were born. This annual commute is ostensibly for the purpose of hunting squirrels, but they are seeking more, and in doing so they discover solace and legends in those wet, foggy woods above the Ohio River and in the loveable characters they discover there and in the nearby town of Persimmon Gap. The book offers a fond look back at 1960s small-town America ...
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The tale begins with author and his father journeying from their home in a white Mercury to a largely fictional land beyond Maysville, Kentucky, where both father and son were born. This annual commute is ostensibly for the purpose of hunting squirrels, but they are seeking more, and in doing so they discover solace and legends in those wet, foggy woods above the Ohio River and in the loveable characters they discover there and in the nearby town of Persimmon Gap. The book offers a fond look back at 1960s small-town America: sweating red metal Coca-Cola coolers filled with bottled soft drinks whose caps are embedded outside the store in an asphalt apron paved with hundreds of flattened bottle caps, country stores where old timers of various shapes and sizes leaned into their stories, fresh-picked tomatoes that were still warm and tasted of the sun, and legendary baseball teams like the Undefeated Persimmon Gap Bobcats. Ellis offers lasting images and sensory paintings, all gleaned from this land where he and his father travelled, hunted, and rested.In the end, it is this simple mantra, offered first by a gravedigger and later by his dying father that settles into the boy's heart: It's important to remember, it's so important to remember.
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Add this copy of Cogan's Woods to cart. $29.55, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Westwinds Press.
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Good. Size: 6x0x9; Signed by the author to the previous owner. Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Good ex-library book. Besides the usual labels and stamps this book also has mild general shelf-wear. This is a good reading copy. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4: 30 PM M-F.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Hardback. 12mo. 2001. First Printing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED and dated (4/1/01) by author on half title page. No additional names or marks.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x7; hardcover with dust jacket, full number line, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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