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THE
COALWOOD
MISFITS
IN
AUDIO • A
NOVEL-CUM-MEMOIR •
IN AUDIO
Read
by famed voice talent and West Virginia born
JAMES L. JONES
Cherry Voice
Works
Now Available
A tongue-in-cheek look at growing up in a small coal camp during the late 1950s and 60s, a time of world-changing events.
Front and Back Cover of The Coalwood Misfits
in Audio
INTRODUCTION
NONE OF WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ has anything to do with what you will enjoy as you listen to "The Coalwood Misfits." You see, I didn't grow up in Coalwood and I've never been there. During the recording process, each story Hatmaker shares pulled memories of my own childhood to the forefront of my mind. They were wonderful memories I had forgotten but so enjoyed when sparked by this reading. Here are a few of those sparks: I had not seen Susan Snodgrass since 5th grade at High Lawn School. Forty years later, while working on a class reunion committee, I tracked Susan down and hoped she would remember me. She did! "James L. Jones, yes I remember you...you shot me in the foot with your BB gun." I decided that if that's how I was to be remembered, maybe I didn't want to go to the reunion.
And the memory of walking across the wooden porch to the little post office in Kincaid, WV with Grandpa Jones. Each footstep sounded just like Marshal Dillon in front of the Long Branch as "Gunsmoke" played out of the table model Philco radio in the kitchen.
The first time I heard Elvis Presley sing was in the backseat of Dad's 1954 Ford. We were parked on the Boulevard in Charleston. Lights glimmered off the Kanawha River and D. Denzil Finney played "You Ain't Nothin But A Houndog" on WCHS radio.
Oh, Yes. I can't forget my pet groundhog, Woody, or the time a deer showed up on the playground and Miss Notter ordered all the gates closed until it got out. Lady, my little Fox Terrier. Mattel's Fanner 50 shooting shell cap gun, and my Rifleman Rifle and Honaker's street party where we danced the Twist and ate Mr. Softy ice cream.
Wonderful memories of your own will come racing back into your mind as you listen to "The Coalwood Misfits." It is my sincerest belief that you will enjoy "The Coalwood Misfits" so much you'll listen to it more than once, and want to share it with friends.
James L. Jones
Hatmaker/2009/Audio CD
ISBN #978-098196993-0 $20.00 (U.S.)
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