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North Douglas Herald February 2024 Page 9 Across Cottage Grove there was major devastation to trees, homes, businesses, even vehicles did not escape the severe effects of January’s ice storm. Power was out for well over a week in some areas. Photos byMckendrianna Purdy with Purdy K Photo Shadows Along the Creek (Paperback) by Rusty L Savage 2.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon $14.84 Judson Ringo has not been dealt an easy hand in life. After loosing his father, and nine months later his mother, he is left on his own at seventeen in rural 1890s Kentucky. He goes to Tennessee to live with his uncle, but instead of being treated like family, he is a slave. Judson faces each chal- lenge as it comes, thinking only to survive. After four years in bondage, John Harrington dies and Judson is set free. He returns to his father’s farm on a cold winter night, finds it in ruins, is suspected of murder, and begins life all over, finding strength in the midst of struggle and love in remnants of buried dreams. Martha Jane gets her buggy stuck in the mud on a cold winter night. She tries everything, but cannot get the buggy back on the road. She is all but ready to leave the buggy, when a horse and rider approaches. The hopes and dreams Martha Jane believed long dead come to life once more. NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/9NlFOYc The Highest Hill (Paperback ) by Rusty L Savage $13.66 This is the story of two young brothers, Bobby and Jackie Ringo, who struggle to overcome the hardships of an unpropi- tious home environment in rural western Kentucky in the 1940s and 1950s. Their lives and futures are fraught with pitfalls and roadblocks, both debilitating and deadly. The reader will feel the dreams, aspirations and wonder of the youngest whilst living and growing up in very different time than our own. The boys, left on their own much of the time cope with a drinking and abusive father, barely escape being sent to reform school, struggle to stay in school, graduate and overcome their circumstance and to reach higher and higher to achieve a better life as kids and for their futures. Follow Bobby and Jackie through the early 1950s, starting at ages’ nine and twelve, through their high school years to a dramatic climax of personal and physical struggle with the “Ringo Streak” and its repercussions. If they survive, it’ll be to eventu- ally realize the true lessons of the Highest Hill which continues to reveal its real measure and meaning. NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/jivKij6 A Place to Die (Paperback) by Rusty L Savage 4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon $15.66 Johnny Ringo’s brother was dead. “I’ll get ‘em Frank, I swear to you I’ll get them”. What a place to die, there on the frozen banks of the Rough Creek. The Law wasn’t doing anything about it and Johnny had decided he would. It was 1938 and the county was full of Bootleggers. One of them ‘Shiners” did it. Johnny was gonna find out who and he knew how to do it. Trouble is there are a lot of prime suspects and a good deal of danger from any one of them. Johnny has a plan, if he can keep out of sight of the Sheriff long enough and keep from getting killed himself. He knows the woods and hills and he will find out what he needs to know. NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON https://a.co/d/2cOZfG2
