Roan Mountain Whispers in the Wind |
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| Author:
| Arwood, Arley |
| Original Author:
| Arwood, Arley |
| Introduction by:
| Arwood, Arley |
| Editor:
| Arwood, Arley |
| Memoir by:
| Arwood, Arley |
| ISBN: | 979-8-218-20670-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2023 |
| Publisher: | Tim Arwood
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Inspired by real-life and historical events, the novel Roan Mountain, Whispers in the Wind by Arley Tim Arwood, Jr takes place across 285 years, where an old mountain storyteller orally passes down the family history of his surname back to the first English to arrive in 1729, a bondswoman and her three sons. It starts with an Arwood of today walking in the autumn air of an Appalachian forest that is on land once owned by his ancestors. He feels the presence of the spirits of those...
More DescriptionInspired by real-life and historical events, the novel Roan Mountain, Whispers in the Wind by Arley Tim Arwood, Jr takes place across 285 years, where an old mountain storyteller orally passes down the family history of his surname back to the first English to arrive in 1729, a bondswoman and her three sons. It starts with an Arwood of today walking in the autumn air of an Appalachian forest that is on land once owned by his ancestors. He feels the presence of the spirits of those ancestors including his father, who had joined others in death very recently. After his walk, he settles by the fireplace and begins to reminisce about the old tales he had heard from his father and grandfather for his entire life because they expected him to be the next to pass them on in the old mountain oral tradition to future generations. Arley will take us back to the last time his grandfather, Robert Henry Arwood, told those tales to the family at an annual family reunion in 1973 at the base of the Unaka Mountains in Tennessee, a misty place on a high mountain farm that echoes with voices of the past and melds all of those stories and times together throughout the novel as a collective. As the stories stretch back the reader will hear the stories told by each of his ancestors as a relay through time finally culminating at the end of the family reunion and slipping forward back to today. These tales give a taste of the old Americana and its struggles from the Pre-American Revolution era into the fast times of the Arwood brothers making moonshine during Prohibition for Chicagoland Gangsters. It is a refreshing and wonderful look back to days gone by.