Walk in 'e Moon

Always a master storyteller, LaVerne Thornton entertains readers with his down to earth tales of growing up in The Bend, an isolated settlement of about thirty families on the Virginia North Carolina border on the Dan River. Although they technically lived in Virginia, the Bend people were largely ignored or unknown by Virginia and not totally accepted by North Carolina. It was a rustic life that is hard to imagine today. People in The Bend were poor, strong, resilient, and self-reliant, an...