Surprise, Texas - Wilkinson, Andy
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An historical fiction, or a fictional history -- you decide which -- intended to be read aloud, this is a story about how we sometimes must become what we pretend to be. Set in the ephemeral village of Surprise in the hard-scrabble oil patch of Andrews County, Texas, Thom Ed Jones recounts the history of the place and its peoples, a tribe by choice living by design in obscurity, quartered in homes with wheels. Surprise, Texas is the sort of place you drive past as quickly as you can, though after reading Thom Ed's story you might want to lighten your load of possessions and throw in with all these Surprises.…mehr

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An historical fiction, or a fictional history -- you decide which -- intended to be read aloud, this is a story about how we sometimes must become what we pretend to be. Set in the ephemeral village of Surprise in the hard-scrabble oil patch of Andrews County, Texas, Thom Ed Jones recounts the history of the place and its peoples, a tribe by choice living by design in obscurity, quartered in homes with wheels. Surprise, Texas is the sort of place you drive past as quickly as you can, though after reading Thom Ed's story you might want to lighten your load of possessions and throw in with all these Surprises.
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A poet, songwriter, singer, and playwright whose particular interest is the history and peoples of the Great Plains, Andy Wilkinson has recorded twelve albums of original music and has written six plays. His work has received several honors, among them the New Folk Award of the Kerrville Folk Festival, the Texas Historical Foundation's John Ben Shepperd Jr. Craftsmanship Award, and five National Western Heritage "Wrangler" Awards in four different categories. He is Artist in Residence at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University, where he also teaches songwriting in the School of Music and creative process in the Honors College.