Quentin M. Thomas (AKA Texas Red) is a native of Fort Worth, Texas and a retired USAF Colonel. He has had a love for the American West since his youth at the Saturday morning matinees. He has done extensive research on the American West and is an accomplished historian with extensive studies in American history from the civil war era forward. Reared near the Chisholm Trail in Ardmore, Oklahoma he has never been far from the influences of the American cowboy. He has lived across America and savored her heritage, is a published author, business consultant, and frequent speaker on American history.
From the farms and pastures of the north Georgia mountains, where pine trees grow in the brick red clay, the tradition of storytelling is alive and well. As rustic as a barbed wire fence, as homey as a light in the window, In the Pines is a collection of stories and poems told in the voice of a vanishing people. Funny, poignant, and reminiscent of events and personalities familiar to us all, you will come away feeling that someone in the book reminds you of a person you know. This is not a book about the magnolia and cotillion south, but about the lives of Appalachian people who lived a hardscrabble life at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. So, take a journey into the lives of the Appalachian people and listen to the characters tell their stories of joys and struggles, and everyday life in the mountains, in the pines.
When Alex's father takes her to their favorite beach she brings a dandelion with her to make a special wish, but upon arrival she sees another little girl who might need the wish much more than she does..
