Little Drops of Water: A Mighty River Make

T his book consists of eight short stories, three memoirs, and eleven essays written over a period of several years by the author. Some are excerpts from his other books, Hillbilly in the Real Estate Jungle, My Border Patrol Days, Forged in a Country Crucible, NRA, the Inside Story, and Amor in Appalachia.

The oldest of seven children, Joe White grew up on a dirt-poor farm in Tennessee during the depression of the 1930s. He was an Army Air Corps pilot during World War II. Later he worked a...