Dignity, misbehavin' and Southern ways.

A coming of age tale, growing up in Western Kentucky.

The small-town South and tobacco land. Incest, suicide, love, old men, old ways, Blacks, white folks, the Nixon administration from inside, travelling behind the Iron Curtain. Life ashore and at sea. Making fine art. WWII homecoming. Short stories, poems and essays in the manner of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Southern writer in the Faulkner tradition, poet, essayist, sailor, delivery boat captain, computer scientist, advisor to presidential appointees, professional photographer, college mathematics teacher, English teacher, artist and traveler.