Baptists, Bibles, and Bourbon in the Barn: The Stories, the Characters, and the Haunting Places of a West (O'MG) Kentucky Childhood. - Softcover

Howerton, Allan Wilford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493109014 ISBN 13: 9781493109012

Publisher: XLIBRIS, 2013

Synopsis

"Baptists, Bibles, and Bourbon in the Barn" is a spunky memoir about growing up in Western Kentucky during the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, and the run up to World War II. Written from the viewpoint of a kid's bottom-up perspective of the fundamentalist Baptist culture of the era, it is a story of preachers shouting fire and brimstone, a cow-sow-hen economy of unpainted barns and farmhouses, kerosene lamps, outhouses, fiddling music, Bourbon whiskey, hordes of relatives, hardship, death, and survival. But it is also a story of love, graced by nostalgia in remembrance of a time that is gone.

About this title

About the Author:

Allan Wilford Howerton, a Western Kentucky native, is a World War II infantry veteran and a retired federal civil servant. He is a graduate of the University of Denver (B.A. in international relations,1948; M.A. 1951) He also studied at Drexel University and Shrivenham American University, England. Following retirement, he worked in local politics and was a founder and general manager of a local cable television channel. He writes, Allan says, for the joy of remembering and to put off, as long as possible, the perils of forgetting. He and his wife, Joan, a registered nurse, live in Alexandria, Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: XLIBRIS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1493109014
• ISBN 13: 9781493109012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216