W.F. Bell, born in Canton in 1948, was the last of four children born to Edwin and Katie Bell of Buffington. After high school and college, W.F. was an interant evangelist, a publisher of Christian literature, and was the founding editor of Free Grace Broadcaster magazine in 1975. From 1979-1982 he owned and operated Bell’s Store, and since that time has worked for both Sears and Home Depot. He and his wife, Elaine, a former banker and now community volunteer, still live in Buffington. He is the co-author of “Buffington and Macadonia in Days Gone By.”
Sample Titles
Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola.
Somewhere on the border between reality and fantasy lies the land of “What Ifs.” A little boy wakes from a busy dream to discover something has changed in his safe, familiar bedroom. A horn that looks exactly like the ones in the pattern of his bedspread is lying on the rug beside his bed. “What if,” he thinks, the cotton soldiers on his bedspread came alive and left it behind? A child’s fantasy. Or is it?