Thistledown

by Joann Ellen Sisco

Overview

When a breeze hits the tiny, ripe, umbrella shaped seeds of the thistle, thye float upward and are gone forever, where only God and the thistle seed know. It would be easy to believe, however, that angels had something to do with the location. Young Lavinia, who was... only six months ago... part of a loving family of four living on the banks of the Mississippi. But, seemingly in the blink of an eye, Lavinia and her brother were orphans, and found themselves alone in a forest, in a wagon with a lame horse and no idea where they were. The children essentially left the direction up to the horses that eventually found a road, and decided which way to go. Like the seeds of the thistle, the children had no choice but to put down roots, and they could not have chosen a better place than River Bend, Arkansas, even though there were those who were open-mouthed amazed that she carried a gun in her pocket. That gun and her skill with it help to decide her future and taught her that some things are meant to be... whether humans understand them or not.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504900751
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	04/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	610 KB

About the Author

Here I am and I came along during the great depression, and went on to live through a dozen presidents, a half a dozen depressions, two world wars, and a number of other skirmishes while the dollar melted down to about 4½ cents. A lot of memories happened during that time, and as I got older it seemed right to set them to paper. Growing up alone a lot of the time, the pencil became my best friend, and there were never enough books. Learning to read was a great excitement, and whatever object had a printed word on it, I read it. From flour sacks to spice bottles, to the black pepper can, to the Farmer’s Almanac, to the book of ‘101 Sermon Outlines’ that belonged to my Minister father. I just as well have read them because he didn’t. He preferred to make his own outlines… didn’t need help, he said. God took care of what he should say. I believed him. During that period, I remembered a lot of my grandmother’s words and her small town life long before electricity. These stories were set down with the background of the fictional town of River Bend, central Arkansas, where members of the town interact and share the good and the bad. Such fun it was to re-live my grandmother’s memories and add a few of my own while weaving them into the fabric of the era. The stories of ‘At Home in River Bend’ cover the lives of several fortunate individuals who migrated somewhat accidentally and stayed for the long haul. So many of those little towns survived and grew and are still on the map.