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Book Excerpt: ‘Lost at Thaxton’

Author Michael Jones’ great great grandfather was in charge of the Thaxton, VA rail station where a terrible 1889 wreck happened.

This book features the lifelong friendship of two girls from Elkins, WV, whose resilience, humor, and creativity shape unexpected lives.

The true story of freed South Carolina slave Mack Saxon, who at the age of 33 bought his own 700-acre plantation.

Allen Brumfield is attacked by his enemies. Following the skirmish, relations grow even bloodier between the Brumfields and the McCoys.

This novel-in-stories about a contemporary Appalachian family follows a grandmother, Essie, and her lineage from Peel Tree, WV to Texas.