Stories from a spot That appears like Home
Master storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in a virtually forgotten international of plainspoken and sincere small-town values, evoking a less complicated time while humans knew one another by way of identify, parents regarded out for his or her pals, and folks have been keen to do what used to be right—no subject the cost.
When Philip Gulley started writing publication essays for the twelve individuals of his Quaker assembly in Indiana, he had no proposal one in every of them might locate its approach to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be learn at the air to 24 million humans. Fourteen books later, with greater than one million books in print, Gulley nonetheless entertains in addition to conjures up from his small-town entrance porch.
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