Edward T. Frye

Broschiertes Buch

Ticket to Oregon

Beschreibung

Three generations of the Ticket family have stood behind their bar in the fictional small town of Cordell, Oregon, serving the rich and poor, loggers and lumbermen, dreamers and drifters, revelers and mourners. Owen Ticket, the current proprietor, hasn't spent much time outside of this town created by two entrepreneurs. But he has seen and heard about it all. When Owen and an out-of-towner engage in a story-telling match, Owen pours forth tale after engaging tale, garnishing most with his own perceptive and insight into human nature and condition. Ticket's Bar has been through it all - the booms and bubbles and heartaches of the 1900s with Depression, Prohibition, two war wars, the Korea conflict, the Vietnam debacle, and the plight of the American wood industry. Join Owen as he opens the tap and draws a pitcher full of laughter and tears, offering a century's worth of entertainment from his person and time inter-connected stories. The reader meets a pokerplaying cheat, the love-anguished Constanze Osterhagen, Paws The Wonder Dog, Stonekicker Bob, the Frenchman, the local grave digger, Owen's father and grandfather, and Anne Oakley herself. All of this and more in the shadow of Mt. Hood, the high plains, and the majestic but treacherous Deschutes River. So, pull up a stool, park your heels on the brass foot rail and settle in for the wonderful story-telling skills of Owen Ticket.

Autor

Ed Frye has been writing all his adult life. Ticket To Oregon is his second novel, following his 2011 autobiographically-based, Fools and Children. Ed has also authored three textbooks used in colleges and high schools and more than two dozen articles published in numerous educational journals and popular magazines. Dr. Edward T. Frye is a nationally known writer and speaker. For the last two decades he has worked in 36 states, addressing more than77,000 program participants. Prior to this work, Ed served as a school administrator in three Pennsylvania school districts for most of his 32 years in public education. His career titles include Executive Director, Assistant Superintendent, Coordinator of English and Federal Programs, and Director of Community Relations. Dr. Frye has been a part-time professor in two universities. A native Pennsylvanian, Ed resides in Mechanicsburg, PA with his wife of fifty-five years, near his two daughters, and three grandchildren. Ed is an avid racquetball player and a licensed pilot, flying a Cessna Cardinal for years. Dr. Frye holds degrees from Lock Haven University, Temple University, and Penn State. His professional website offers a complete resume, a listing of his publications, photos, and client responses: www.fryedock.org.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ARPress
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9798893303032
• Artikelnr.: 69862472