title: A Father's Story: From the Farm to the City...Stories from my life for my son and grandsons
author: Doyle R. Walker
description: "This is the type of book <b>all fathers</b> should think about writing." Malcolm Y. Walker, Jr.<br /><br /><i>A Father's Story emphasizes the importance of one's <b>family &amp; heritage.</b></i>Dedicated to hisson&amp; grandsons, this book provesto benot only acollection of humorous chapters, but anintriguing work dedicated toparenthood&amp; life<em><strong>. This book istruly worth considering for your personal memoir collections. Paul Vogel, The Midwest Book Review. </strong></em><br /><br /><span>A Father's Story will take you back to youryouth and to the small town you grew up in. While reading the book I could picture my brothers doing some of the samethings in the book and getting in trouble just like the author and his brothers did.<strong>The authorhas a wonderful way with words.</strong>Reviewed by Paula Davis.</span><br /><br /><span><b>I LOVED reading this book!</b> It was so fun to slip down memory lane&amp; see that we had some of the same similar experiences. It brought back manymemories that I had forgotten. It is an easy read, a very humorous &amp; enjoyable book and written about fun people and places. I enjoyed it very much! Reviewed by Becky Stewart.</span>
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  # 'Salem’s Lot
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [PROLOGUE](../Text/Salem_8217_s_Lot_split_002.html#filepos1084)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Old friend, what are you looking for?  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  After those many years abroad you come  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  With images you tended  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Under foreign skies  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Far away from your own land  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  -George Seferis  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.
  
  
  
  
  
  They crossed the country on a rambling southwest line in an old Citroën sedan,
  keeping mostly to secondary roads, traveling in fits and starts. They stopped
  in three places along the way before reaching their final destination: first
  in Rhode Island, where the tall man with the black hair worked in a textile
  mill; then in Youngstown, Ohio, where he worked for three months on a tractor
  assembly line; and finally in a small