{"id":527,"date":"2017-05-19T00:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T04:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2017-05-19T00:54:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T04:54:19","slug":"looking-at-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"LOOKING AT THE PAST"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction, awarded the Moonbeam Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction,\u00a0 and awarded the 2016 Frank Yerby Award for Fiction.\u00a0 Available at: NewSouth Books:\u00a0www.newsouthbooks.com\/halley and Amazon<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Part of the family George Junkins left behind in Georgia when he took off west to Alabama in the 1800s.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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I believe it was William Faulkner who said, \u201cThe past is never dead\u2014it\u2019s not even past.\u201d\u00a0 Books like TRAPPED IN THE CROSSFIRE, by Gladys Hodge Sherrer, remind us of this truth.\u00a0 Sherrer\u2019s book, soon to be published by Ardent Writer Press,\u00a0 portrays the events that made southerners who they are.\u00a0 Based on real people, the book follows a family through events leading up to the secession of the southern states, the Civil War, and all that followed. Sarah Hammett is the spunky daughter of a southern family that does not believe in Slavery.\u00a0 In fact, she and her family are engaged in helping runaway slaves escape their owners.\u00a0 The man she marries, Oliver Perry Williams, is also against slavery.\u00a0 Their beliefs cause friction with neighbors, and after several difficult years, she and her husband decide to move West\u2014to Alabama.\u00a0 There they hope to escape from some of the inequalities of the plantation system and start a new life. Of course, they find that escape is easier to dream than to experience.\u00a0 When the Civil War begins, they suffer along with their neighbors, and after defeat, they suffer from reconstruction.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Using historical events and people, Sherrer, takes the reader back to another time\u2014a time whose events still impact us today.\u00a0 Most people know a little about their own family history, perhaps where their great grandparents lived and maybe a few of the big events in their lives. Thanks to a genealogy enthusiast in my family, I know that my grandfather\u2019s oldest brother took off west to Alabama in the later part of the 1800s.\u00a0 Thanks to Sherrer, I can better imagine what his journey was like.\u00a0 From the back-breaking farm labor, to the jolting wagons on\u00a0 the westward trek, to the heartbreak of losing a child, she makes the experience real.\u00a0 She also reminds us that family can outlast the worst hardships.\u00a0 Family can prevail.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

TRAPPED IN THE CROSSFIRE calls for us to remember who we are and what we ought to be.\u00a0 This is a great book for history buffs and those who love adventure.\u00a0 It will be available soon on Amazon and in your local bookstores.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction, awarded the Moonbeam Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction,\u00a0 and awarded the 2016 Frank Yerby Award for Fiction.\u00a0 Available at: NewSouth Books:\u00a0www.newsouthbooks.com\/halley and Amazon. Part of the family … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}