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Order now at our special price $24.95 for hardcover of Yocona Puff Adder
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James A. Rock & Co., Publishers, 9710 Traville Gateway Drive, #305 Rockville, MD 20850
or Telephone: 1-800-411-2230 voice
or FAX: 301 294 1683
It will be mailed immediately at media mail rate, so expect it in about a week
If you would like to contact Gerald Inmon personally for any reason, his e-Mail is gpinmon@olemiss.edu or phone (662) 234-4180 or snail mail at; 141 CR 369, Oxford, Mississippi 38655
A Trade Paperback Edition of Yocona Puff Adder will be forthcoming from James A. Rock & Co., Publishers in Spring of 2008
http://www.rockpublishing.com/yocona.htm
Thank you very much, and again, be looking for Camp Re-Form
Summary
In the unique genre of historical faction, this coming-of-age story and more-than-memoir type novel bridges the era of the early 1950's through today ... sharing little known facts and demonstrating that life is more interesting than plain fiction.
With one boy white and the other black in segregated Mississippi, backwoods and riverbottom adventures are too exciting to allow these motherless seven-year olds to consider the normal bigotry of the times. Childhood is grounded in mischief around Oxford's Bailey Woods and in the rural community of Taylor, as the boys grow up under the tutelage of a world famous author camouflaged as Mr. Jefferson.
The Yocona and Little Tallahatchie Rivers help shape youth, while the teen years find Scott and C.B. interacting with Weekend Warriors and the Klan. Summer jobs and outdoor experiences roughhew the boys into men. Adult complications in Sin City Memphis precede diverging paths with college forestry vs. the logging woods, grad school vs. a tour in Vietnam, and professional vs. technical careers in the workplace where they see things from differing perspectives during the environmental movement.
Challenges and opportunities are stretched from commonplace to the controversial in later life, with volunteerism during retirement uniquely within the conservation community. Senile citizenship and its heart-warming semi-acceptance at Golden Olden slip up on the two protagonists ... with a twist the reader doesn't expect and will be surprised with at the end.
Portrayals of secondary characters with only a tad more than their names changed are powerfully close to veritable. Examples include world-renowned author, William Faulkner and under-appreciated Black pioneer of Civil Rights, James Meredith...both with whom this author had personal experiences.
Almost as much a nature book as the human nature book Yocona Puff Adder is, it reveals not only the truth about Agent Orange but proof of it from an actual experiment on one of your National Forests.
This Author gives a guarantee that if you don't love this book, he will eat it.
About the Author
 After a 101st Airborne Division tour in Vietnam, a BS in Forestry and a MS in Wildlife Management from Mississippi State University, and a distinguished career as a federal forester and wildlife biologist, Gerald Inmom has now retired to his hometown of Oxford, MS.
But first, his professional recognition and achievements included: nomination by the Three Rivers Chapter of the Society of American Foresters as Mississippi's most outstanding forester; being bestowed the Soil & Water Conservation District's Conservation Education Award; receiving five USDA Certificates of Merit for various natural resource works; being presented The Nature Conservancy's State Public Service Award; and earning two National Taking Wings Awards from the U.S. Forest Service, one for waterfowl habitat development and the other for partnership generation.
After gaining experience as a Forest Service spokesman, conservation group leader, state-level officer of the Society of American Foresters, university-level board member and representative, court witness and former contributing editor to several newspapers, Gerald has now broken ground in the unique genre of faction. He was recently voted one of Oxford's "Favorite Living Writers" by teh Oxford Eagle Newspaper readership.
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