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A collection of poetry by Virgil L. Smith. Born the twelfth of thirteen children, the author grew up on Sinking Creek in Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was there on that hillside farm the scent of honeysuckle flooded the evening valley. It was among those rocks he
early tasted the sweetness of the ground ivy berry. It was there he walked through sunshine and shadow into manhood. Like thousands of others in the 1950’s he migrated to Ohio and found a career in teaching, but half his heart never left the hills he roamed as a child. All his writing was inspired and shaped by the span of life on Sinking Creek in the Appalachian Hills. That is where the whippoorwill sings. Paperback, 176 pages. See also “Beyond Autumn” and “Appalachian Roots” by this author.