Martin looked around at the strange landscape; the trees were weird, like none he had never seen before. Large leaves and jungle vines hanging from all of them. Then he remembered the flash. Matthew, Clair, John, and Joann join up with Martin and Sue to hike for a week on the Appalachian Trail in North Georgia. At the top of Hawk Mountain, they run into trouble when something or someone scares them. Ed, retired and living alone, hikes the trail and searches Hawk Mountain for Indian artifacts. If hikers on the AT get too close to his diggings, he will try and scare them off. Ed, who had been watching the group after hearing the uproar and shouting, moved behind a tree to see what would happen, he thought he heard the word 'Gold' and wanted to learn more
This is a collection of my Poems. Each group of about twenty eight poems with pictures were originally published in Chapbooks, small books of up to about forty pages, and sold by Chapman who carried them around the country, selling from door to door. I first started playing around with poems in March of 2010, while sitting on the porch overlooking the Coosawattee River in north Georgia. In fact my first poem was titled Coosawattee. It became a kind of challenge to write about things in poems, like caving, vacations and other things around Georgia and the Gulf coast. My wife Kathy gave me a birthday gift of a poetry course in August, 2010 and I have been writing ever since. After Ten Chapbooks, I thought that it would be nice to place the collection into one larger book, and use the cover images as the chapter titles. I hope that you enjoy reading, Poetry for the Adventuresome as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Through the hole, Matthew heard voices in the distance. He whispered to the others to not make any noises, then he crawled into the hole. After several feet, it widened out on another ledge overlooking a large opening. Unexplained lights on the side of Blood Mountain were only the beginning of strange things that stirred up the residents of the small east Tennessee community. Matthew, Clair, John and Joann, the characters of "Drawn to Darkness", try to solve the mystery on Blood Mountain."The story took me back to the feeling of being a kid who was always looking to explore mysteries and have adventures " Andrew Frank
Fisherman makes a find in a pond that tears a small town apart. As the mystery unfolds more people become involved and the conflict grows. A Trout Pond, like a small town, has big fish eating small fish. All kinds of creatures live in and around a pond, and it's the same in a small town, the bigger they are, the better the catch, or the harder they fall The Trout Pond tells about people who change. Most of us are resistant to change, but as you will see in this story we can and do often change when the circumstances force us, or when the opportunity for a better life comes along.
Forty years of caving keeps me thinking a lot about the sport. In this book I share not only what I have learned and experienced, but also what a few others have shared about caves and how they also became interested in the sport. Most of the caves discussed are in the Southeast with a few elsewhere. Detail exploration and mapping is given for Pettyjohn Cave in Georgia and Pumphouse Cave in Tennessee.Caves have been used for everything from fallout shelters to mushroom farms. However I really believe that it is the mystery of caves that draws us back. Not knowing what lies below and that curiosity that we all have within us.We find all kinds of excuses to enter a cave. Some study the rocks and formations, others like to make maps or study the cave life, but in the end it is the mystery that holds us in it's grip.I remember playing on the hill side behind my Grandparents home, and finding holes in the gullies that were dug by my father and his brothers, or possibly one of my older cousins. I even dug a few myself, more like ditches covered with boards and dirt for a hid-out.There is a strange pleasure in getting dirty, and covered with mud, not having to worry about staying clean. A good friend of mine loved to wear white overalls, which of course did not remain white very long in the cave. There is also something about crawling around that seems enjoyable. Getting to know a cave can be quite a reward. When you are able to find your way, and even share with others about where, and how you got to a special place.
Investigator Brian Williams accepts a new position that leads him into the dark side of the life insurance business. Murder sometimes has a motive, life insurance, as Brian soon finds out. Brian and Carol discover that life in Chicago is fast paced and full of surprises.Brian sat on the pew listening to his father preach, just like every other Sunday. The voice he heard did not sound like his fathers, a voice he had not heard before. "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" Brian understood that the "house" referred to him, and he stood up in the middle of his father's sermon and went to the altar. The voice he heard burned into his mind, words he would never forget.Brian Williams finished high school and joined marines. Clay Butler and Brian became good friends serving together as MP's during their time in the service and often talked about having their own detective business someday. After his discharge from the service, Brain married Carol and worked several jobs before starting his own detective business.Life is about to change with an offer from a large life insurance company in Chicago.
Matthew, Clair, John, and Joann had grown close in the small Tennessee town, playing along with the mountain and the river that flowed into the nearby lake. The Lost Treasure of Grassy Cove is the third in the series "Drawn to Darkness." A few items in a box start the group off on another adventure.
