LURAY

by Ed Buhrer

A young man from the steel-mill and coal country of western Pennsylvania accepts his first job to teach high-school English in a small northwestern Virginia county, home of the famous Luray Caverns. During his first four months, Tom finds a place to live—a motel cabin—owned by Becky, a widow with two Ronnie, a high-school senior, and Sandi, the older daughter. He develops friendships with a handful of teachers who become the Lunch Bunch as he is learning and refining his skills as a teacher. Tom slowly becomes enmeshed in a developing mystery surrounding his assigned teacher-mentor. Tom also finds himself falling deeply in with teaching and with a troubled young woman. Set among the beautiful mountains of the Blue Ridge, where seemingly endless summer is replaced by spectacular autumn colors, where friendly and easy-going Southerners make great food and sell homey antiques, LURAY is a story that takes the reader into the classroom of a first-year teacher and into his life. In addition, the food is good and the environment is stunningly beautiful.

203 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 6, 2002

About the author

Hi. I grew up for the first 38 years in New Jersey, minus four while I was away in the Air Force. If you grow up in Jersey, you can survive anywhere and drive anywhere. I now live in rural central Virginia with my wife of almost fifty years and three feline road orphans. When I'm not writing, I garden, read, chop wood, and to let off steam, I participate in full-contact sarcasm and occasionally hunt deer flies with my Red Ryder BB gun. To date (December 2013), I have 17 books for Kindles with Amazon and six published books, two still in print. You can also visit my humble blog at
http://pizzaed.blogspot.com