Robert Maxon
"I think getting a story that can be relatively easy to read, as well as a good background and introduction to the history of the region, is always a satisfaction for the historian. It becomes a challenge to meet all those goals - to write something that is readable and easy to understand, as well as appealing to the specialists."
Lee Maynard
"If I couldn’t be a writer, I would want to be a total derelict- one of those guys you don’t want to see coming, you just want to see gone. I would want to be a wanderer-it wouldn’t be anything that would keep me in one place."
Louise McNeill
Back in print--a classic work from a West Virginia Poet Laureate! Edited and with an Introduction by A.E. Stringer.
Tim Poland
Fiction and fly-fishing share a common thread—they are narrative acts. Whether to the reader or to the fish, you’re telling a story. And if you lay the illusion of reality out there on the water in a believable way, and if you’re a little lucky, both reader and fish will bite. Hopefully.
David H. Sutton
"Helvetia is a unique and interesting community worthy of having its story told in detail and with accuracy. It was truly a piece of community service for me. Seeing how all these families I knew as a child wove into the tapestry of this little town was fascinating and often nostalgic."
Jerry B. Thomas
"When I came to the Depression era in my preparations for the course I found few useful sources. I still had my notes from my undergraduate course with Professor Summers, but little else. So, my original purpose was to put together some material for the course and maybe prepare a journal article. Tens years or so later, it turned out to be a book manuscript."
Irvin D.S. Winsboro
"This book will result in new paradigms of Florida history and will, by its nature, challenge convention and comfort zones. This is not a conventional approach to Florida history; it is a fresh and challenging approach."
