Cogan's Woods
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0871089157
ISBN13:9780871089151
Release Date:February 2001
Publisher:Westwinds Press
Length:166 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 7.5"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
GREAT BOOK!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Great book! Get it for your father if he's a hunter or for son who hunts with father!
cogan's woods
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is a great book. If it doesn't make you want to go squirrel hunting nothing will. I bought a 22 rifle and can't wait till it cools off so I can try it out. Thanks for reminding me of my younger years in the field.
Great book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This brought back many wonderful memories of my childhood in KY and those magic times spent in the woods.
memories of a time gone by.....
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
My Dad was an avid squirrel hunter after the War (II) and brought me along with him long before I could ever carry a gun. He involved me in many of his favorite outdoor activities and I still thank him, although he is gone, every day for his patience and love for me. Ron Ellis is a very talented writer that has evoked vivid memories of those hunts with my Dad. It is a book that I carry with me when I travel. I read a few pages each night before turning in. It is that good.....
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