title: Thundersnow: In the Shadow of the Cedar, Book One
author:  Sheila Hollinghead 
description: <i><span>Thundersnow</span></i><span> has been with me all of my life. My mother told me similar stories from the time I can remember.</span><br /><span></span><br /> <span>I was born at the right time, a time when some homes here in the south still had outhouses, hog killings still took place, some still relied solely on a fireplace to keep them partially warm in winter (only the part turned toward the fire), and relied on nothing but hand-held fans or old fans that could cut off a finger, if you got too close, to keep a little cooler in the hot, humid summers. </span><br /><span></span><br /> <span>I walked barefoot in the fields of cotton, burning the soles of my feet. I helped slop the hogs and watched my grandmother milking the cow. I saw the one-room school my mother attended, and the red-clay hills she walked to get there. The same red-clay hills that sometimes ruined clothes when children took a notion to slide down them.</span><br /><span></span><br /> <span>So these stories solidified in me because I saw and experienced some of the same things my mother did. And I knew I wanted to share this story with others.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>My mother did not experience the thundersnow. However, we did have such a storm here in south Alabama on March 12, 1993, <i>so it could have happened</i>. And that's what writers do. We take experiences in our lives, even if they are experiences we only hear or read of, and turn them into story.<br /></span> <i><span>Thundersnow</span></i><span> is the culmination of my mother's stories told in a different way with characters I made up.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><br /> <span>That being said, too much of my mother is in <i>Thundersnow</i> to have never been told.</span><br /> <span>And too much of me.</span><br /><br /><span></span><br /><span><b>The story of Sarah Jane, Zeke, Michael, Dan, and Michael continues in <i>Clothed in Thunder, </i>In the Shadow of the Cedar, Book 2. It's now available and book 3, <i>Thunder in the Shadows,</i> is tentatively scheduled for January, 2014. </b></span>
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  In the Shadow of the Cedar
  
  
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  Abagail Eldan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  NOTE: This was first published under the name Sheila Hollinghead.
  
  
  Abagail Eldan is her pen name.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the products of the
  author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  
  
  This ebook is not for resale.
  
  
  Scripture taken from the King James Version.
  
  
  The In the Shadow of the Cedar series describes many events that actually
  occurred within a fictionalized story. It also tells of several south Alabama
  towns that actually exist. However, both the unfolding of the events and the
  descriptions of the towns are flavored with artistic license. This is not a
  history or geography book although I attempted to remain true to the times and
  places whenever possible. This is a work of fiction that tells a story, one
  that I lived, if only in my imagination.
  
  
  Copyright © 2016 Sheila Odom Hollinghead
  
  
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