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In 1997 Dr. Harold Almond published a collection of 55 short stories about his experiences as a small-town doctor in Central West Virginia Dr. Almond was born in 1915 to a large, close-knit family in New Jersey. Through the wise counsel of his Scout Master,
Harold developed a love of the woods and spent many years helping blaze the Appalachian Trail and the Long Trail in Vermont. Coming to the mountains and forests of West Virginia to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College, Harold began a never-ending love affair with this wondrous place. It was here he met his wife of 51 years, Lois Flanagan. Even during the years at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago and his stint in the Army Air Force in occupied Japan, his heart was in the hills. He and Lois returned to Upshur
County, WV in 1949. Together they raised five children and opened their home to numerous international students, devoted hours to planting their gardens and strawberry patches, were actively involved in their community, and above all, tended to the lives of his patients. Until his death in 1999, Dr. Almond and his collie dog, McBrier, lived in the family home of 40 years on a hill overlooking the town of Buckhannon. He enjoyed writing, telling stories to his friends and seven grandchildren, and voraciously reading detective
stores. 120 pages, Softbound