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This is a book about life-life before electricity in the home, before gas stoves for cooking, before TV, before radio...obviously before cell phones. Yet it was a life that was rich-rich in simple experiences, meaningful moments. But what was it really like? The Reverend Horace Douty recalls that life, relives those moments of simple yet rich meaning.
About the author
Horace Douty spent his adult life as a Presbyterian pastor. He recently realized that his childhood on a small farm in Rockridge, Virginia, was not ordinary. Very few people have known the extraordinarily wide range of culture and self-sufficiency as he. He writes, "For example, I have never known any other child or adult who could walk to a far pasture, mount a remarkable horse totally bareback, and round up the dairy cattle for milking." At the tender age of ten, he harnessed three huge horses and spent days following them and a heavy mould-board turf-turning plow, skipping attendance at school.From that primitive beginning, Horace went on to earn post-college degrees from prestigious institutions, including an earned doctorate in theology. In his later years, he has authored and published two popular volumes on historical figures from the area of Lexington, Virginia. (History Lessons From A Country Church, Volumes I and II.)He and his wife, Ellen, ultimately returned to Lexington after living many years elsewhere.
