About
Bookstoreowner, author, professional book reviewer, and coach, Bob Spear is ahistorical performer (Buffalo Bill Cody and Burl Ives), a storyteller,and professional musician. He borrows from his own 25-year career inArmy intelligence to lend realism to the stories he writes
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Description
<p>Have you ever loved, been loved, been confused about love, or suffered from loss of love? All these feelings have been captured and shared in the words of heartfelt poems, compiled over many years by a former teacher and award-winning author.</p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon now shares her thoughts in this book of feelings. "As a teacher, I used poetry to help counsel many troubled teens and friends, and have continued this pattern throughout the years."</p><p>There are three sections in her book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails ... (Love & Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets. Some poems are simply plays on words.</p><p><strong>A Sign</strong></p><p>In the depths of my winter</p><p>I heard a small bird -</p><p>Braving the cold,</p><p>Bringing the word.</p><p>He gave my heart hope</p><p>As I heard him sing -</p><p>Three little notes</p><p>Promising spring.</p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of 10, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's stories that have received 48 national and international book awards between 2011 and 2017. Also a playwright with seven published plays for elementary school children, her works have been performed internationally in over 20 countries. Most of her children's books try to teach something, such as good manners and caring for others. Married for 57 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren.</p><p><strong>Publisher's website: </strong> http: //sbprabooks.com/SherrillSCannon</p><p> </p>
Story Behind The Book
Based on the true incident of the burning alive of 21- year-old Fred
Alexander in 1901 for suspected murder and accosting a white female
Broadway resident, Eva Roth, at 6:30 PM on 12 January 1901. The
principal of Leavenworth High, Dr Evans, witnessed and overblew the
accosting. Alexander then came under suspicion for the murder of
Pearl Forbes on election night, 2 Nov 1900. Sheriff Abernathy moved
him from city jail to county jail to State Pen back to county jail. During
this last transfer, a lynch mob of 12,000 people took him to the edge of
town, chained him to a stake, tore down a wooden shed for its wood,
stacked the wood around him and threw coal oil on it. After burning
him alive, all 12,000 filed by his body. Fred was buried in Mt. Muncie
Cemetary. Later on, a man killed a woman in Colorado with similar
MO to the Pearl Forbes murder. The Lynch mob may have burned an
innocent man.