Other Voices Other Towns The Traveler Story eBook Caleb Pirtle III
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"Other Voices, Other Towns" has, in reality, taken Caleb Pirtle III a lifetime to write. During the thirty years he has been writing about travel across this great land, he spent much of his time listening to those whose paths he crossed.
Pirtle collects people. He collects their stories. He is firmly convinced that everyone who has ever walked across the street has a great story to tell if only someone will take the time to listen.
Pirtle has recorded many of them in "Other Voices, Other Towns." The sketches, the anecdotes, the tales they tell, the memories they have stored, their lessons of life make you feel better or make you want to cry.
Their stories are filled with disappointments and with inspiration The blind man who tends his beehives in the Smoky Mountains and knows that someday "I'm going to where the mountains are higher and prettier and you don't get bee stung." The rancher who bought a whole town because it had a beer joint, and he could get a drink any time he was thirsty. The woman who built a major university on the strength of a dime. The grieving father searching for "the best little girl in the world." The vagabond who became a great writer because he flunked grammar and could not enroll in college. The last man on the mountain, the last survivor on an island, the last woman strong enough to tame though not civilize the Okefenokee Swamp. The teacher who taught history in school by singing the lessons he had written as songs. The men who created "Lum and Abner." The scientist digging for clues to prove a space ship had crashed in the backyard of Aurora, Texas. The performer who rescued the abandoned remains of a crumbling theater. The actor who figured out that a theater ticket was worth a mess of greens or a gallon milk during the Great Depression. The old con artist and wildcatter who defied the odds and discovered a great oilfield. The politician who had one cause, passed it in the legislature, and went home because there were no other bills that concerned him. The fishermen who stumbled across pearls in a landlocked lake. The girl singer who rode in a small RV behind the star until she became the star. The sad journey down the trail of broken promises. And the greatest worm fiddler of them all.
For Pirtle, other voices in other towns, have all been joined together to form the traveler's story.
Other Voices Other Towns The Traveler Story eBook Caleb Pirtle III
Someone said that we forget what we hear, remember what we see, and understand what we do. I used to travel around the country doing seminars, giving lectures. I soon learned that the folks who attended often forgot the technicalities, but they always remembered the stories. I learned to use stories to illustrate every point. Unfortunately, when the presentation was over, I often forgot that valuable lesson, rushing to a cab or rent car that would take me to an airport or home.Traveler and writer Caleb Pirtle knows the power of stories. He says "Some people collect the oddest of things. I collect stories." Instead of heading for a car or plane, he stopped and listened. I have been to many of the places where he captures first the scene, then the setting and finally, the story. As a novelist, I have a great appreciation for songwriters because some can condense a few decades, even generations, to a few lines. Caleb reminds me of a songwriter as he describes vibrant, colorful, unique characters, vivid landscapes, and interesting history in this fine book. Caleb makes me wish I had stopped and listened, but I appreciate the second chance he offers through this book.
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Other Voices Other Towns The Traveler Story eBook Caleb Pirtle III Reviews
Caleb Pirtle is an exquisite storyteller. Not only does he see people, he listens to them. In this book, he hears other voices and he visits other towns. Sometimes he goes back in time to portray people who have become ghosts, people who lived hardscrabble lives in little mountain towns where they made their own tools and lived quietly and sagely well below the poverty level, but who possessed a dignity that is rarely seen in the big cities.
Pirtle does not just tell stories, he brings them to life with language that wrenches the heart and engages the mind and lingers like a yellowed tintype or a 3-D photograph viewed through a stereopticon, a photograph turning brown with age, but hauntingly vivid.
When you read Other Voices, you are taken on a tour backward into time, to places you have never seen, never will see. And, each moment you spend listening to those ghostly voices and walking through green mountains and musty, ramshackle towns, you are transfixed with the images of the people and their farms and desolate communities, while some grandfatherly memory squeezes your heart and reminds you of ancestors you barely knew who settled this land and who spared their descendants of the hardships they endured.
Nostalgic? Yes, but there is something deeper than these feelings, an undercurrent that runs through the book and nudges us into a deeper understanding of people, our people and people in third world countries, people whose faces are deep-lined with the furrowed tracks of toil, hands that are gnarled and calloused, fingers still coiled to the contours of plow handles,t and freckled by the sun, eyes that no longer see, and bones as brittle as dry tinder. These are vivid portraits by a man with superb gifts, who writes like the photographer alert to every nuance of light and shadow, who sees the splash of sun thorugh the canopies of leaves, who takes an instant and makes it immortal.
Finally, this book is a journey through the real heartland of America, through all its byways and graveled roads, through weather-beaten towns and into lives seldom noticed by the greedy molloch of civilization. I think you will come away from these travels with a new understanding of this grand and long-troubled country, with a deeper comprehension of how our nation became what it is, a beacon in a dark world of strife and war, a veritable Eden hacked out of a wilderness at great cost by simple people who respected not only the land which was their sustenance, but their neighbors and kin.
Take this journey and you will find kindness and hospitality at the end of the day, with good food and drink, a warm cozy fire and a night full of diamonds floating in a peaceful ocean.
Jory Sherman
Author of Little Journeys
Someone said that we forget what we hear, remember what we see, and understand what we do. I used to travel around the country doing seminars, giving lectures. I soon learned that the folks who attended often forgot the technicalities, but they always remembered the stories. I learned to use stories to illustrate every point. Unfortunately, when the presentation was over, I often forgot that valuable lesson, rushing to a cab or rent car that would take me to an airport or home.
Traveler and writer Caleb Pirtle knows the power of stories. He says "Some people collect the oddest of things. I collect stories." Instead of heading for a car or plane, he stopped and listened. I have been to many of the places where he captures first the scene, then the setting and finally, the story. As a novelist, I have a great appreciation for songwriters because some can condense a few decades, even generations, to a few lines. Caleb reminds me of a songwriter as he describes vibrant, colorful, unique characters, vivid landscapes, and interesting history in this fine book. Caleb makes me wish I had stopped and listened, but I appreciate the second chance he offers through this book.
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