Big Kid Small Town
When I was a kid, about ten,Living in a small town,The streets were all mine,And I was free to roam until sundown. I would leave the house every day,Ride my bike to get my best friend, Vic,And we would race across town,From end to end, until we got sick The only places we wentWere the […]
Purple Violets: Prologue
Boonville, New York, was inhabited by the Iroquois Confederacy and settled by the Europeans in the late 1790s. Indigenous people hunted the region for centuries until the land was sold to incoming settlers. In many indigenous cultures, adoption was a widespread traditional practice that legally and socially recognized a person as part of a family […]
Purple Violets: Synopsys
Ellen Winona Crandall was a woman, a mother, and an angel. As a young child, she lived with a total absence of endearment in a family overrun with alcoholism and mental instability. The hope of finding affection of any kind was made impossible at the hands of her insufferable grandmother. The only solace she found […]
Its Life
If your plans go wrong, as they sometimes will,And the hours seem long as you climb the hill;Remember, my friend, ’tis a part you play.You’ll find in the end a brighter day.It’s life. If a heart grows cold that was warmed just for you.And a friend you hold to be staunch and trueHas faithless turned, […]
