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.
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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.
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A Place
to Die
(Paperback) by
Rusty L Savage
4.1 out of
5 stars on
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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.
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