DINO: Tall Tales from a Simpler Times Up on the Hill

by Leanna Wilson Eaton, J Eric Wilson

In Tall Tales from a Simpler Times Up on The Hill, the storytellers and brother and sister, LeAnna and Eric Wilson, transport you to a time and place while making you laugh and look forward to the next adventure. This book recalls an earlier time, perfectly capturing the life and all the vitality of the men and women who grew up in American’s coal camps during the mid-Twentieth- Century through the eyes of a young carefree boy looking for fun and finding mischief. The tall tales introduce readers to the wacky adventures of a child named Dino in a series of slightly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Often joined by his friends Jimmy, Pete, and Patty you will be laughing as they chase lightning bugs, frogs, skunks, and a chicken on steroids. You will fall in love with the characters and their mamas with tales of Sunday night baths, trips to the company store, and Mrs. Myrtle get’n the vapors after something Dino had certainly done. Tall Tales from a Simpler Times Up on The Hill, is a story of family, food, and fun from the porches and gravel roads of a small coal camp that will capture your heart and your funny bone.

147 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2021

Reviews

[Laurianne Tyree · Rating 5 out of 5]

BUY IT! Lose yourself in funny, poignant and wholesome.

I thoroughly enjoyed this foray into the daily vignettes of life in a West Virginia coal mining community. Nestled within these stories , like prized blackberry vines in all the best secret places of hill and holler, the authors have captured so many of the things to be treasured in this life: love and grit, hilarity and compassion, faith and forgiveness, hard work and rest well earned. Buy the book. Read the book. Regret that it ends then cherish the memories.