'A Way Yonder' - A novel by Dick Blizzard

My new ebook is now available on Amazon ($5.99).  It is in the Kindle format, but you don't necessarily need a Kindle to read it - just download the Kindle App into your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android devices.

Book synopsis:  Charles is awaiting the gallows; convicted of murder.  The murdered man's widow falsely testifies that she saw Charles' 11 year old sister kill her husband.  The judge believes the old lady because her husband had indeed raped the little girl.  The court releases Charles and Mandy on the condition the children leave Ireland immediately.  The ensuing journey to America is filled with intrigue, romance, humor and conflict.

'A Way Yonder' is fiction, but it was inspired by accounts passed down though my mother and her family.  Sketchy documentation is available. 

I visit Charles' grave in the mountains of Southwest Virginia every summer.  Charles Hibbitts was my great, great grandfather. 

My Publisher wants me to promote this book to the movie makers in Hollywood

An Eruption of Decadence

Tommy is in awe of the navy pilots during the great world war, but he is young and he must be content with holding down the home front.  Near the end of the war, Tommy is almost 17.  He is seduced by Grace, a lonely housewife.

After the war, Tommy joins the Navy as an Aviation Cadet, but he is involved in a serious plane crash that ends his dream of become a Naval Aviator.  He returns home and falls into a life of coal mining, moonshining, money, murder and greed.

Tommy has a wife and child, but he can never forget his first love.  Grace is ruthless and ambitions.  She uses her beauty and charm to achieve great wealth and recognition.  In the end she is left all alone with her money and her fame.

The book is available as a paperback or an ebook from www.amazon.com or   www.authorhouse.com and other online book sellers.

 

Buying A Boat? Read This First.

I've learned a lot about the crappy side of boats in my forty years of boating,  Stuff you don't want to learn the hard way!  Boats are a constant problem, but pictured above is a boat that gave us some of the most wonderful years of our life..Her name was "Cumberland".  Click here

The Blizzard Boys. Circa 1913

The Blizzard Boys.  Circa 1913

Dad was the youngest of a mountain family trying to make it without a father. Daddy is the little guy in the above picture.  It was a time when there were no roads, no cars and if you wanted to eat you had to grow food and live off the land.  The family walked through the mountains for miles to find work in the Eastern Kentucky coal mines.

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Halloween at the Dog Park

Rarity Bay's Dog Park is a big hit.  Click here for video

The best horse I ever owned

Jeanie is a Cherokee maiden.  She made a bridle with a piece of old rope and rode Buck bareback.  The voice behind the camera belongs to me.  Click here

Videos from the Rabun County Georgia Mountains - Featuring the Man Who Helped Make the movie 'Deliverance' a Classic.

Frank was primarily a bull dozier operator.  He was a great story teller.  He hunted wild boar, wrestled a wild bull and climbed a tree and shook out a bear.  Click here